- Lacks 3 woodcut ills.: 1 leaf (a6) lacks entirely; 2 ills. crudely torn/ cut out. Some lvs. torn w. loss of text/ (sl.) affecting images; many lvs. sl. frayed, often repaired/ strengthened w. tape; bookblock loose. (Sl.) soiled/ stained/ foxed throughout; a few lvs. trifle wormholed; occas. contemp. annots. in pen and ink (1x later pencil annot.).
= German translation of the Latin work De inventoribus rerum (ed. Venice, 1499, without ills.), written by the Italian historian Polydore Vergil of Urbino (±1470-1555). The work consists of eight books, the first three describing the history of human origins, discoveries and inventions; the last five the origins of Christian rites and institutions. The beautiful woodcuts depict printers, doctors, alchemists, magicians, musicians, hunters etc. VD16 V 764; Graesse VI.2, p.283. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XCV.
- Summer part only. Lacks 4 leaves: π1 and 2 (incipit and table of contents), a8 (textleaf) and D8 (final blank); w. a photogr. facsimile of the lacking printed lvs. loosely inserted. First 9 lvs. inner margin strengthened w. tape; (sl.) stained/ (finger)soiled (occas. moulded) almost throughout, mainly affecting margins; 3 sm. old annots. in pen and ink. Binding sl. worn/ rubbed.
= ILC 1308; IDL 2582; Copinger 6509; Campbell 1756; Goff J140; GW 14088; Proctor 8919; Polain 2217 (only this part); BMC IX, 33 (only this part). On Leeu: NNBW VI, p.918ff; on printer's mark: Holtrop, p.74f (pl. 68, 3b); Haebler, type I. The second Dutch edition by Leeu, "a page-for-page reprint of the edition of 10 May, 1478, with the addition of fourteen leaves, quires C, D, containing five supplementary lives" (BMC). The first part, the wijnter stuc, was published 10 February 1480. Very rare, only 5 copies sold at auction on the continent since 1950. Dutch translation of the Legenda aurea (Golden Legend) compiled by the Italian chronicler Jacobus de Voragine (±1230-1298), archbishop of Genoa. This collection of saints' lives and church feasts is arranged as readings (legenda) for the church year, divided (in this transl.) into a winter (Advent to Ascension) and summer part (Pentecost to Advent). The work was immensely popular in Medieval Europe encouraging translations into i.a. French, Italian, English and Dutch. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XCV.
- Part of title-p. clumsily restored; annot. on upper pastedown and title-p.; bookplate on first free endpaper; a few scattered annots. Corners showing; spine dried; foot of spine worn; lacks 1 catch and 2 clasps.
= Not in Schweiger and Dibdin.
- Frontcover pasted over w. different marbled paper. = Very rare.
- Lacks 1 plate; partly dam. and loosening. Binding w. some worn spots.
= The first edition. Tiele 70; Landwehr, VOC 556; Rouffaer/ Muller p.341; Cat. NHSM p.240; Cox I, 283; Howgego B10. Very important for contemporary information on Dutch settlements in Southern India, especially Ceylon. "Baldeaus arrived in Ceylon in 1656 from Batavia with four other pastors and remained on the island until 1665. He immediately assigned himself and one other pastor to Jaffna, the Tamil region in the north of the Island (...). The pastors set about taking over the churches and schools left by the various Catholic missions and converting their flocks to the 'true Reformed faith'. Baldaeus and his pastors concentrated on the younger members of the community (...). Baldaeus soon acquired a knowledge of Tamil and translated the Ten Commandments, the Lord's Prayer, and the Articles of Faith. (...). Catholicism remained well-rooted in Ceylon, and after the departure of Baldaeus the Reformed Church there fell into decline. (...). He also provides a detailed description of the Hindu religion, although borrowing much from the earlier work of the missionary Abraham Roger." (Howgego). SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XCV.
- Inner margin waterst. at the end; sm. stamp on first title-p.; a few wormholes (also affecting frontisp. and a few plates). Binding scratched and sl. worn; foot of spine dam.
= Tiele 77; Bastin-Brommer N22; Rouffaer/ Muller I, p.9; Feith 218; Landwehr, VOC 499. Incl. the "Groote Nieuwe platte Grond van Batavia" engr. by A. van Krevelt. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XCVI.
- Sl. yellowed. Binding sl. worn along extremtities. = Rare 4to edition.
- Without vol. 2. Lacks first free endpaper; bookplate on upper pastedown.
- Contemp. owner's entries on first free endpaper (recto and verso) and 17th cent. drawing on final endpaper of a coat of arms and a tulip w. "Div Si Bene". Binding worn along extremities.
= The first edition of this work on Rome and its ancient buildings. Rosetti G-606; Cicognara 3870; Lipsius/ Leitzmann p.343.
- Without the Beschryving van oud Rome; tear in map; occas. trifle foxed. Joints split/ dam. at top of spine.
= Sumptuously illustrated work on Rome. Rossetti 2265; Kissner collection 109; Schudt 555.
- Without no. 32, 42, 43, 50, 53, 60, 65, 68, 71, 112, 113 and 114; sl. stained and fingersoiled; no.130 creased and browned along middle fold; one fold. plate w. some dam. and restored spots.
= Rare series of engravings depicting the reliefs on Trajan's Column in Rome which commemorates the Roman victory in the Dacian wars. The final 3 (fold.) engravings show the column in its entirety, its interior and in cross section. The coat of arms on spine belongs to the Zaccheo family (according to pencil annot. on first blank). SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XCVI.
- Partly trifle yellowed; receding waterst. in blank margin at the end. Vellum sl. stained.
= Schudt 223; Rossetti 8457 (calling for 5 plates). Rare.
- Old owner's entry on title-p. Binding sl. worn along extremities; corners bumped; spine w. sm. paper ticket.
= The first edition of this work on Rome and its ancient buildings. Rosetti G-606; Cicognara 3870; Lipsius/ Leitzmann p.343.
- Annots. on prelim. lvs.; (sl.) foxed/ browned throughout; a few lvs. dogeared and lacking sm. portion (1 leaf repaired).
= A collection of Semitic grammars by Jacob Atling (1618-1679), Dutch professor at the University of Groningen, and Georg Otho (1634-1713), German professor at the University of Marburg. Freimann, p.85; not in Fürst.
AND 2 others: C. STOCK, Clavis linguae sanctae aditum aperiens, vocum radices juxta ordinem alphabethicum exhibens (...) (Jena, 1717, 2 parts in 1 vol., contemp. vellum) and C. CELLARIUS, Rabbinismus sive Institutio Grammatica Rabbinorum scriptis legendis & intelligendis accomodata (Zeitz, 1684, contemp. vellum w. later mor. letterpiece, 4to).
- Some small defects to binding; ties broken.
= Klaversma/ Hannema 132; not in Van Eeghen/ Van der Kellen.
- Vol. 1 first lvs. (sl.) (water)stained in inner margin; endpapers dam./ partly detached. Vol. 2 w. new pastedowns; first and last quire reattached/ repaired w. tape; first part sl. wormholed. Both bindings sl. worn; corners showing; vol. 2 lacks letterpiece; spine ends restored w. leather.
= Klaversma/ Hannema 132; not in Van Eeghen/ Van der Kellen.
- Without vol. 2 and 3. Vol. 1 lacks 2 fold. plates; upper hinge broken; a few lvs. loosening; occas. sl. (finger)soiled; vellum sl. wrinkled. Vol. 4 binding sl. worn/ letterpiece dam.
= First vol. all plates by J. LUIKEN. With the rare 4th vol. illustrated by L. SCHERM. Fürst I, p.193; Van Eeghen/ Van der Kellen 52; Klaversma/ Hannema 397 and 415.
- Occas. sl. foxed/ waterstained in upper blank margin. Vellum soiled; upper joint splitting at top of spine. A good copy.
= Klaversma/ Hannema 747; Van Eeghen/ Van der Kellen 396; Poortman IIb, p.235-240.
- Library stamp on first free endpaper and title; a few lvs. w. marginal repairs; occas. waterstains in blank margins. Corners restored w. use of leather; gilding on backstrip for the larger part worn off.
= Klaversma/ Hannema 747; Van Eeghen/ Van der Kellen 396; Poortman II, p.235-240.
- Lacks one map and the full-p. plate; the other map cut short at lower edge; title-p. and final 2 lvs. margins restored; occas. sl. foxed and fingersoiled.
= Poortman II, p.241-243; Klaversma/ Hannema 748; Van Eeghen/ Van der Kellen 396.