- Bookplate of C.D.I. Brand on upper pastedowns.
AND 2 others in 3 vols, i.a. J. DE LA BRUYERE, Les Caractères de Théophraste (Amst., 1743, 2 vols., engr. frontisp., portrait, contemp. unif. calf).
- Contemp. owner's entry on each title-page; all vols. pastedowns and first free endpapers browned due to offsetting from turn-ins; first vol. 2 frontispieces and upper pastedown loose.
= Cohen/ de R. p.407: "superbes illustrations".
- Hinges sl. weak; good copy.
= De Buck 2226: "Friesche kronieken uit de 16e eeuw, waarvan de belangrijkste de kroniek van Sicke Benninghe."; Herwijnen 248 (first part only). Contains: Sicke Beninga, Chronickel der Vriescher Landen, en der stadt Groningen; Sybe Jarichs, Corte Cronyck, tracteerende van de hercomste der Vreesen, ende oer Vryheyt; "Eens onbekenden schryvers", Cleyne Cronica van de Groninger Omlanden and Tjalling Aykema, Cronyxke van de Ommelanden.
- Lacks prelim. leaf w. portrait of the author; trifle yellowed; bookplate on upper pastedown. Binding sl. worn; spine-ends restored; upper joint wormholed.
= Haitsma Mulier/ Van der Lem 204,a; De Wind p.348-349; Van Someren I, p.103-104; Hollstein VI, p.240; F.M. 89. The second and most desirable edition (first Münster, 1609), the first with the illustrations. The full-page portraits showing places, buildings and scenes connected with the lives of the depicted persons in the background.
- First 8 lvs. waterst./ dam. in lower outer corner (repaired). Binding backstrip dam.
= Comprehensive documentation on the famous incest case against Onno Zwier van Haren (1711-1779), politician and close friend of William IV. Comprises i.a. "Publicatie" (1761, folded plano; Knuttel 18794 (rare)); "Het onteerend kindre verraad" (n.d., (4)p.); "Parodie of Tegenzang" (n.d., (4)p.); "Verdediging van de heeren Johan Alexander van Sandick, en Mr. Wilhem van Hogendorp" (1761, (2),55,(1)p.); "Deductie voor Vrouwe S.A. van Haren, Geborene Van Huls" (1762, 39,(14)p.); ''Tweede Deductie voor Jr. Onno Zwier van Haren'' (1762, 50,(17)p.); ''Derde Deductie voor Jr. Onno Zwier van Haren'' (1762, 27p.) and "Crimineele proceduren" (1762, (2),16p.).
- Backstrip reattached; sl. worn at extremities. Contents fine.
= The rare second edition of this important early bibliographical source for the history of Friesland. Haitsma Mulier/ Van der Lem 383b, also listing the first edition published in Cologne 1593 and a third edition published in Utrecht, 1730.
- Pastedowns loosening. Binding worn along extremities; chipped at top of spine. Fine complete copy.
= Haitsma Mulier/ Van der Lem 429; Tiele 976. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XCI.
- A very fine copy, apart from the following minor defects: fol.1-2 lacks upper outer blank corner; left and right margins of map and plans trimmed to borderline. Lacks ties.
= Haitsma Mulier/ Van der Lem 523c; Carasso-Kok 98 and 224; De Wind p.555-557. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XCII.
- Second part a few quires (very) vaguely waterstained in lower margin; scattered pencil annots. and a few 18th cent. annots. in pen and ink. Both vols. one spine-end and both joints neatly restored, and both vols. w. later endpaper. Nevertheless a fine copy.
= Provenance: Henry Seymour (bookplate on both upper pastedowns). Adams F1066.
- Sl. foxed. Backstrip stained.
= Landwehr 56,10, but with different collation: in conformity with the table of contents there are no pages 192-215.
- Lacks free endpapers. Frontcover sl. stained and soiled.
= Bibl. Gastronomica 235; Waller 192. Very rare. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XC.
- Lacks title-p. and prelim. text lvs.; title to the 2nd part ("Suyp-Stad, of Dronckaerts Leven") bound at the beginning; waterst. and sl. yellowed/ browned (worse at the beginning); some underlining in col. pencil; stitching holes in inner margin; lacks upper pastedown. Sold w.a.f.
= One of the few Dutch books on wine - and a beautiful edition to that with remarkable engravings, illustrating the use and abuse of wine. Oberlé, Fastes 1033; Bibl. Gastronomica 4939; Scheepers I, 144; Scheurleer p.153; Hollstein 140. D.P. Pers is the pseudonym of the publisher D. Pietersz.
- Bookblock loose; sl. foxed, stained and fingersoiled; one text leaf w. sm. hole. Rebacked; binding worn; calf over backcover dam. at board edges.
= Simon 1481; Bitting p.466f. Influential work on health and diet, i.a. promoting vegetarianism with regard to animal welfare and as a healthy lifestyle. It is believed to have prompted Benjamin Franklin to give up eating meat for a while.
- Occas. foxing (some plates somewhat more); title-p. yellowed. Backstrip trifle rubbed. A (very) good copy.
= Pastedown with the owner's entry of William Lee, one of the subscribers. With loosely inserted "Distillateur d'eau-de-vie" (1 engr. plate w. explanatory textleaf, prob. from a 4to ed. of Diderot/ d'Alembert. Badly foxed). Simon, Bibl. Vinaria p.50; Oberlé, Bibliothèque Bachique 115: "Édition fort rare d'une traité qui reparaîtra à Londres en 1805". SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XCII.
- Lacks htitle (supplied in photostat). Otherwise a very fine copy.
= The first edition of the first complete Dutch topographical and historical history of Gelderland, by Arend van Slichtenhorst (±1615-1657), who studied at Leiden and became a lawyer in his native city Arnhem. As acknowledged on the title, the work was based upon, and partly a translation of, Pontanus' Latin Historiae Gelricae, published in 1639, but Slichtenhorst thoroughly revised, corrected and much enlarged the Latin original. A classic in its field. Nijhoff/ Van Hattum 281. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XCIII.
- Large 17th cent. armorial bookplate mounted on upper pastedown by G. BOUTTATS; general map loose; occas. unobtrusive waterstain in inner blank margin. Joints starting at spine-ends; sm. paper ticket on frontcover.
= The second edition of the first complete Dutch topographical and historical history of Gelderland, by Arend van Slichtenhorst (±1615-1657), who studied at Leiden and became a lawyer in his native city Arnhem (first ed. 1653). As acknowledged on the title, the work was based upon, and partly a translation of, Pontanus' Latin Historiae Gelricae, published in 1639, but Slichtenhorst thoroughly revised, corrected and much enlarged the Latin original. A classic in its field. Nijhoff/ Van Hattum 281.
- Lacks the panorama of Tiel; occas. trifle yellowed. Corners and spine-ends rubbed/ sl. worn.
AND 1 other: Wandelingen in een gedeelte van Gelderland, of geschiedkundige en plaatsbeschrijvende beschouwing van de omstreken der stad Arnhem (Arhnem, 1836, 5th corr. ed., engr. frontisp., contemp. gilt hcalf).
- Occas. sl. foxed/ stained. Spines and edges sl. worn; letterpieces (sl.) dam.
= The 3rd Dutch edition. Landwehr F107; Waller 589; Bodemann II, 158.
- A few vague stains.