- New endpapers; first and final lvs. sl. browned; a few lvs. w. tear repaired w. tape; occas. sl. soiled in blank margin; fore-edge vaguely waterst. Spine-ends restored w. cloth; upper joint starting; covers sl. scratched. A good copy.
= Springer/ Klassen 1675 (other printers); Bibl. Belg. B176; Van Eeghen/ Van der Kellen 93; Klaversma/ Hannema 292; Kühler, p.247: "Dit boek, hoewel met weinig kritiek samengebracht, is over het geheel betrouwbaar, en de hoofdbron gebleven voor hen, die het godsdienstig leven der Doopsgezinde martelaars in zijn volle diepte en rijkdom willen leeren kennen". SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE CXXVII.
- Title-p. and first page margins damaged and restored (doubled/strengthened); first 80 pages lower corner waterstained and partly mouldy; later pastedowns. Spine restored. Title in later hand on spine.
= Biogr. Woordenboek van Protestantse Godgeleerden in Nederland IV p.480/481: a posthumous answer on H. Faukelius' attack on baptists "Babel, dat is verwerringhe der Wederdooperen" (publ. Middelb., 1621).
- Binding sl. worn along extremities. A fine copy.
- Owner's entry on first free endpaper pasted over w. paper. Covers trifle rubbed. A fine, large paper copy.
- Preliminary and first few textpages of part 1 waterstained; otherwise occas. foxing in both vols. (plates and map not affected).
= Sabin 16962; Howgego C195; Henze I, p.731ff. "The letters are properly numbered, second, third and fourth. An excellent preface and introduction are added, with additional notes, and an appendix, completing the life of Cortes" (Sabin). SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE CXXIX.
- New endpapers; bookblock cut short. Top of spine restored w. modern vellum.
= Thijssen-Schoute, Nederlands Cartesianisme p.578-592; Van Eeghen/ Van der Kellen 43 (note); cf. Klaversma/ Hannema 1082 (earlier ed.).
- Partly (sl.) foxed; a few leaves sl. soiled in lower or outer margin; crossed-out owner's entries on title-p. of "R.[?] von Ilten" and Christian Rettberg (dated "1673"), and on upper endpaper ("L. von Löw" and "Leo von Weiher"); first blank loose. Top of spine sl. chipped; corners and foot of spine sl. worn; extremities of both covers rubbed.
= Cf. Sloos 05014 and cf. 05016; Kossmann, Boekhandel te 's Gravenhage p.72-73. Interesting copy: the first engraved title-p. differing from Sloos 05014 (our copy reads: "Particuliere Exercitie Memorie (...)" instead of "Memorie der Particuliere Exercitie") and the printed title also different from Sloos 05014 (which begins with the words "Vertoogh Van de Kryghs-oeffeninge (...)"). A similar difference is to be observed on the second engr. title (our copy: "Generale Exercitie memorie (...)" instead of "Memorie der Generale Exercitie (...)"). Contrary to Sloos, our copy has no printed title to the second part. Extremely rare (variant) first edition of this Dutch military manual. The plates depicting the individual use of muskets and pikes and the drilling of companies. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE CXXIX.
- Trifle yellowed; 2 (index) lvs. at the end of vol. 2 misbound. Bindings rubbed; corners showing; one letterpiece loosening.
= Pohler III, p.471; Lipperheide Qk4; Colas 794.
- All plates w. a former vertical fold; occas. trifle/ sl. foxed and w. some tiny ruststains. Binding sl. scuffed.
= The first French edition of the famous manual on how to handle muskets and pikes by Jacob de Gheyn (1565-1629). For the complex history of publication of the various Dutch, German, English, French and Danish editions in the years 1607-1608, see the catalogue Le héraut du dix-septième siècle. Dessins et gravures de Jacques de Gheyn II et III, no.37 (Paris, Institut Néerlandais, 1985, with literature). See also F.M. 1117; Jähns p. 1005-1007; Cockle 79 (other editions); Hollstein 3b, 346-457; Cicognara 1659. The work is also of great importance for costume history, given the fact that all the 117 figures are depicted full length (Hiler p.377; Lipperheide Qb18 (ed. The Hague, 1607)).
BOUND WITH: Breen, A. (Maniement d'Armes de Nassau, avecq Rondelles, Picques, Espees et Targes). (Ibid., n.publ., 1618), engr. title, (8)p., 34 and 16 engr. plates.
- Unfinished engr. title w. contemp.(?) ms. additions (proof?); leaf C1 w. printed overslip.
= The first French edition of the extremely rare COMPLETE series of plates by A. van Breen, showing how to hold shields, pikes and rapiers. The first Dutch edition was published in the same year. F.M. 1116; Lipperheide Qb 33. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE CXXX.
- All vols. owner's entry on upper pastedown and on title-p.; first quire and frontisp. of first vol. yellowed; frontisp. sl. frayed and doubled; a few leaves lack small portion of blank margins; 1 plate w. printing flaw. Covers chafed/ sl. worn.
= Thimm p.24; cf. Colas I, p.474 and Lipperh. Of 7 and Of 10. Rare complete set.
- Title-p. sticking to first blank along hinge; occas. trifle waterst. in (blank) margins.
= Cf. Pollak 10; Jähns p.1385-1389; Pohler III, p.698. First(?) French translation of one of the most important Dutch works on the subject (first published as Nieuwe Vestingbouw in 1685). Minno (or Menno) Koehoorn, the "Dutch Vauban", became General of Artillery (1697) and Lieutenant General of the Infantry of Holland (1695).
- Bookplate on upper pastedown; first work sl. yellowed.
= Ad 1: Adams L797; Bibl. Belg. L.424 ("Première édition, tirée à 1500 exemplaires"); Jähns p.561: "Ein besonderes Verdienst erwarb er sich durch die für seine Zeit vortreffliche Abhandlung über die Maschinen der Alten." Ad 2: Adams E1025.
- Portrait and plate sl. yellowed.
= Cockle 703; Pollak 58; Sloos 08012; Jähns p.840. Stevin's main works on military engineering. "A native of Bruges, Stevin is known as the "Father" of modern statics (...). Stevin took part in the siege of Jülig in 1610, and used his experience in the formulation of his books. He innovatively bound together castrametation with siege strategy, tactics and fortification design, creating a scientific axis between them. Furthermore, the use of sluices made a virtue out of the excessive water channels of Holland, by placing them at the center of a new national fortification method." (Pollak). From the library of Max Jähns, with his owner's entry on first free endpaper and mounted ticket "Vermächtnis des am 19. September 1900 verstorben Oberstleutnants Dr. Max Jähns" on upper pastedown.
- Upper hinge splitting. Otherwise fine. = Welsh 600. Warranted in pen by J.J. Kessler.
- Calf sl. dam./ loosening at board edges. = Rare, not in the usual reference works.
- Both vols. libr. stamp(s) on verso of first htitle and verso and recto of title-p. A fine copy.
= The first Dutch translation of l'Esprit des lois, by E. Luzac with his notes. Very rare.
- Spines partly dam., one frontcover loose, one frontcover lacking. = Cf. Camus 122.
- Lacks the final vol. Three vols. top of spine chipped; first 2 vols. vertical crease in spine. Good set.
= The rare second Dutch translation of l'Esprit des lois. The first Dutch edition was published by E. Luzac as De aart der wetten, 1771-1773.
- Binding worn along extremities; contemp. annot. on title ("Legrand 1762").
= Tchemerzine, IV, p. 924; Cohen/de Ricci 725 (attributing the illustration to Sève).
- Vague yellow stain on first few preliminary leaves; sm. owner's entry on title-p. A good/ fine copy.