- Bookblock; quires and a few lvs. loose; dogeared; lacks lower endpapers; final text leaf dam. Binding dam. Sold w.a.f.
= Rare.
- All vols. hinges weak; first vol. upper joint splitting at top of spine. All vols. binding (sl.) worn along extremities.
= On the 3rd vol.: Landwehr 470; Scheurleer p.179; Klaversma/ Hannema 946.
Idem. De bykorf des gemoeds, Honing zaamelende uit allerly Bloemen. Amst., Erven F. Houttuyn, 1779, (10),404,(2)p., engr. frontisp. and 101 engr. ½-p. emblems by J. LUIKEN, contemp. hcalf, sm. 8vo.
- Upper hinge broken but holding. Spine-ends worn/ dam.
= Landwehr 511; Van Eeghen/ Van der Kellen 438.
- Lower joint splitting at top of spine; crack in backstrip (splitting at top).
= Klaversma/ Hannema 814; Van Eeghen/ Van der Kellen 464.
ADDED: Hoogvliet, J. Abraham, de Aartsvader, in XII boeken. Rott., Jan Daniel Beman en Zoon, 1766, 8th ed., (54),288p., engr. frontisp. by S. FOKKE after J. WANDELAAR, engr. title-vignette by S. FOKKE, 12 plates by J. PUNT, contemp. gilt hroan w. mor. letterpiece.
- Partly foxed and yellowed. Covers sl. affected by silverfish.
- Frontisp. and title-p. doubled and w. portions of blank margins lacking; first and final lvs. margins restored; partly sl. yellowed; fingersoiled.
= Klaversma/ Hannema 1271; Van Eeghen/ Van der Kellen 416.
- Several lvs. unopened; 3 vols. partly trifle/ sl. wormholed. Sl. worn/ rubbed at spine(-ends) and edges.
= All vols. with the 18th cent. engr. bookplate of J.M. Flies. Bertelli/ Innocenti 48. The first edition of the works to contain Frederick the Great's Anti-Machiavel, under the editorship of Voltaire.
- Vol. 3 a few lvs. trifle wormholed; vol. 4 two lvs. loose. Covers w. rubbed spots; vol. 1 frontcover chipped in lower inner corner.
= A good and rare copy of Malebranche's prime theological/ philosophical work on the nature of the human mind and error, aiming to harmonise the ideas of Descartes and Augustine.
- Lacks 1 portrait and endpapers; contemp. owner's entry on title. Joints splitting.
= Cat. NHSM, p.852.
- One plate yellowed ("Zee-slagh (...) bij Kyduyn en Helder"); a few quires sl. waterstained in lower outer corner (not affecting plates); some textp. browned
= Provenance: old annot. on first free endpaper reading "Huis de Gelder" (referring to Huis de Gelder near Wijhe, Overijssel). Cat. NHSM p.844. The first edition of the most important old source on the famous Dutch admiral.
- One text leaf w. large tear; sl. yellowed/ browned; some foxing. Vellum sl. darkened/ stained; joints splitting.
= Cat. NHSM p.844. The most important old source on the famous Dutch admiral.
- Foxed. Corners sl. worn; covers trifle stained.
= Remarkable copy in deluxe binding of an extremely rare account of the shipwreck of La Jeune Sophie, due to a fire of its cargo of vitriol, on its journey from Le Havre to the Caribbean. The survivors split into two parties: a group that stayed on the deserted island of Trinidad, and a group that set out in a lifeboat to Rio de Janeiro. Both parties survived the disaster and returned to France. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE CXXIII.
- Both fingersoiled, creased, sl. frayed and dogeared.
= Tiele, Mémoire p.232 and 203; Tiele 81 (8 and 9); Landwehr, VOC 250 (8 and 9). Part of Commelin's collection of voyages.
AND 1 other from the same work, also without binding.
- Owner's entry on first free endpapers; sm. owner's stamp on a few prel. lvs. Bindings soiled and worn at extremities. A good, untrimmed copy.
= The second vol. consists of appendices. Rare. Not in Cat. NHSM.
- Owner's entry on first free endpaper. Upper joint split (holding on cords); lower joint splitting at ends; spine-ends sl. dam.
= Cat. NHSM p.447.
Hall, M.C. van. Het leven en karakter van den Admiraal Jhr. Jan Hendrik van Kinsbergen. Amst., J. Müller, 1841, XXVI,(2)340,(2)p., engr. portrait and 7 plates w. facs. of signatures, orig. publ. boards.
- Frontwr. stained in upper corner. Backstrip dam. = Cat. NHSM p.848.
AND 1 other: H. DOUGLAS, Verhandeling over de zee-artillerie. Dutch transl. and ed. H.A. Gobius (Vlissingen, 1839, 3 fold. lithogr. plates, fold. letterpress table, contemp. hmor.).
- Title-p. sl. dustsoiled. Binding soiled and worn/ rubbed. = Cat. NHSM p.466.
ADDED 3 others: ORDONNANTIE en Vragtlyst Op het Veer tussche Rotterdam en Alkmaar (Rott., 1776, without wr., 4to); NIEUWE ORDONNANTIE voor de Veerschippers van Nieuwendam na Amsterdam enz. (n.pl., 1805, interleaved copy, contemp. plain wr.) and J.C. DE JONGE, Over den oorsprong der Nederlandsche vlag (The Hague/ Amst., 1831, orig. wr.).
- Covers sl. worn along extremities and at corners. Otherwise fine.
BOUND WITH: Bylaagen behoorende tot de Missive en Memorie door Zyne Hoogheid den Heere Prince van Orange en Nassau aan hun hoog mogende op den 7 October 1782 overgegeven (...). N.pl., n.publ., (1783), 48, 97-213p.
- Lacks p.49-96.
BOUND WITH: Bylaagen gehoorende tot het vervolg van de Missive en Memorie door Zyne Hoogheid den Heere Prince van Orange en Nassau aan hun hoog mogende op den 7. October 1782 overgegeven. (...). N.pl., n.publ., (1783), 202p., 2 (1x fold.) tables.
- Lacks one engr. plate; one other engr. plate doubled and left margin trimmed to the borderline; sl. yellowed/ age-toned almost throughout. Vellum trifle stained.
= Cat. NHSM p.743; Lipsius/ Leitzmann 351. Interesting account on warships of antiquity. The woodcuts depicting ships, apparatus and equipment, but also coins and medallions. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE CXXIII.
- Yellowed (occas. sl. browned) almost throughout.
= Important collection of ordonnances on maritime and commercial law, translated here for the first time into Dutch. Although the ordonnances first appeared in print in Barcelona in 1494, they soon became into force across the Mediterranean Sea. In Northern Europe they were used as a supplementary law, but also as a major source for maritime legislation in various countries. The second part contains the Ordinacions de tot vexell qui armara per anar en cors e de tota armada ques faca per mar (entirely in Catalan). Goldsmiths 4054; Kress 2415.
- Hinges weak; last ±40 lvs. waterst. in lower part. Vellum sl. soiled.
- Hinges weak; owner's entries on first free endpaper and first blank; partly sl. browned.