- Spine-ends partly sl. chipped and/ or frayed.
= Rich collection, comprising the following: vol. I: 28 pamphlets dating from the years 1647-1667; vol. II-V:157 pamphlets all but a few published in the "Rampjaar" (annus horribilis) 1672, the year of the Franco-Dutch war, the Third Anglo-Dutch War and the murder of the brothers De Witt. All vols. commence with a numbered late 19th cent. manuscript list of contents, each number with the relevant Tiele number. A few publications could not be traced in the usual reference works. The collection contains i.a. the following (rare) pamphlets:
vol.I: Tiele 3176, 3384, 3392, 3378, 3427, 3446, 3784, 4294, 4846, 5058, 5421, 5431, 5427, 5429, 5424 bis, 5343 and "Journael, Ofte Dag-Register Van de Reyse die gedaen is door 's Landts Vloot, onder den Manhaften Heer Admirael Michiel A. de Ruyer (...) Beschreven door Jeurian Prins" (Tiele 5365, w. fold. engr. plate) and "Konings Croon Op het Hooft van Charles Stuart" (not traced);
vol. 2-5: Tiele 5844, 5848, 6135, 6142, 6234, 6226, 6089, [on the Glorious Revolution and the Nine Years' War against France:] 6230, 6380. 6383, 6933, 6241,6247 ("Catalogus Van Boecken In de Byblioteque van Mr. Jan de Witt Door zyn Discipel Den Pensionaris van Vivier"), 6330 ("Appendix Van 't Catalogus van de Boecken van Mr. Jan de Wit, Bestaende in een Partye Curieuse en Secrete Manuscripten. Welcke verkocht sullen weren op de Zael van 's Gravenhage (...)"), 6334 ("Sleutel, Ontsluytende de Boecke-kas van de Witte Bibliotheek Met sijn Appendix"), 6335 ("Dortse en Haagse Woonsdag en Saturdag. Of nader opening van de Bibliotheecq Van Mr. Jan de Witth (...)), 6252 ("'t Secreet van de Mis, of Kristalyne Bril, Waer door men sien kan in Vranckrijck, Engelandt, Hollandt, Westphalen (...)", 6254 ("Hollands Interest, Gestelt tegens dat van Jan de Wit (...))" 6257, 6294 ("Natuurlijke Echo, Uytgegalmt Over 't eyndt Van Cornelis en Jan de Wit (...)"), 6263 ("Echo's Antwoort Op de Vragen van Cornelis de Wit, Ruart van Putten"), 6319 ("Den val Van de Witten, Met het Graff-Schrift (...))", 6315 ("Sententie Van den generalen Hove van Nederlant, Tegens Mr. Cornelis de Wit (...) en Mr. Jan de Wit"), 6277/ 6539/ 6541 ("Trits van Verstaden. Pen en Inkt, Brillaris en Pasquillus met sijn Oude Profecyen" and "d'Orangie Vlagge op den Haegschen Tooren: Of den tweeden trits van verstanden(...))" and "Niet goet Frans, Maer Goet Prins. Of den Derden Trits van Verstanden"), 6321 ("De Hel in Roeren, Ofte de Verslagenheyt en schrick van de onderaertsche Geesten. Op de Aenkomst van de twee geanatomiseerde Hollandtsche Princen/ Alias Jan en Kees de Wit"), 6389, 6390, 6386, 5971, 5833 ("Den Hollandschen Verre-Kyker (...))", 5837 ("Engelands Interest, Ofte Tegenwoordich waerachtigh Belangh (...)"), 6327 ("Leven, en Doodt, Vande Heeren, en Meesters Cornelis en Johan de Witt. I. deel"), 6243 ("Memoriae Johannis et Cornelii de Witte (...)"), 6595 ("De spreekende geest van Jan de Wit, Verschenen op het Theatrum van de Werelt"), 5887 ("Bondigh en Waerachtigh Verhael Van het voornaemst voorgevallen aen den Rhijn besonderlijck in, voor, en omtrent Orsoy, Burick, Rees en Emmeryck" (first textleaf stained)), 6360 ("en gevluchten Uyl/ Of Rasenden Twentschen Duyvel, Overghebleven Procurator Generael, van den gewesen Grooten Advocaet Den Witten Duyvel (...))", 6362 ("Het Over-Yssels Uylenest, Met al die Rasende Eygenhoorige Witte Gebroetsels (...)"), 6323 ("De Vast-gekuypte Loevesteynsche Ton Aen Duygen (...)"), 6317 ("Verscheyde Aenmerkingen Op eenige saken onlangs voorgevallen: Als de Doodt van C. en J. de Witt (...)"), 6156 ("Wonderlijcke Autentijcke Missive, Geschreven uyt het diepste der helsche Afgront: Door Belzebub, Overste der Duyvelen"), 5835, 6535 ("Nimrods Mugge-Swarm noch in 't Harnasch. Tegens Oranje (...)"), 6119 ("Waerachtigh Verhael, van 't gepasseerde In, ende ontrent der saecken, tusschen Willem Tichelaer, Mr. Chirurgyn tot Piershil, En Mr. Cornelis de Witt (...) Nopende de conspiratie tegens sijn Hoogheyt den Heere Prince van Orangien"), 6356 ("Waerlijck Verhael, Van 't geene (sonderling na 't Wereltlijcke) is voorgevallen Op en nae de Apprehensie, Sententie en Executie (...) tegens den jongen Heer Jacob vander Graef, Als mede de Wonderlijcke Opmerckinghe omtrent het Sterven vande twee Groote vermaerde Mannen Mr Jan en Kornelis de Wit"), 6614, 7012 ("De metrens Remontrantie, Op 't Woord, Van de Kaas-Verkoopers (...)"), 6888, 6891, 6454/ 6848 ("D'ontroerde Leeuw: Belesende Een Historisch Relaes van de (...) Hollandsche, Fransse, Engelse, Munsterse, en Keulsen Oorlog, tot nu toe (...)"/ "d'Ontroerden Leeuw, Tweede Deel (...)"), 6921 ("Verhael van Staets-saken, Vertonende D'oprechtingh van de Triple Alliantie (...)" (foxed/ yellowed copy)), 6512/ 6515 ("Hydra of Monster-Dier, Dat tzedert den Jare 1650. in de Vereenigde Nederlanden gewoed heeft (...)" (sl. foxed/ yellowed)/ "Hydra of Monster-Dier (...) Het tweede deel"), 6386, 6326 ("'t Leven en Bedrijf van Mr. Jan van Oldenbarnevelt, Nagevolght van Mr Jan de Wit"), 6524 ("Oprechte Hollandtse Venezoen, Met een Witte Saus, Gebacken in den Haagh"), 6508 ("Hollants Venezoen, in Engelandt gebacken, En geopent voor de Liefhebbers van 't Vaderlant"), 6525 ("Hollandts Venezoen, Verkneedt: Ende in een Oranjen Oven Herbakken"), 6527 ("Orangie Banquet Gedischt na 't opgeschafte Hollandts Venezoen, Op Engelandts Naam wanbakken (...))", 6530, 6527, 6529, 6531, 6532, 6533, 6508, 5773 and 6210. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XCVI.
- Frayed and dam. dec. border; w. sm. cut-out hole in text.
= Auction sale announcement of land in the polder of Krabbendijke, to be sold on the 25th of October 1611 in the city of Goes.
AND 18 other pamphlets, printed ordinances, announcements etc., i.a. an announcement by stadtholder William III to replace the city officials in Amsterdam in 1672; Placcaet ende ordinancie onsheere des Conincx, aengaende die collectatie en opheue van den XXen peninck op der vercoopinghe vande onruerende Goeden (Antw., 1572); Schouw-brief vande Vlowycker-Weteringe (Utr., 1604); an ordinance on the raised taxes in Zeeland in 1715 and an ordinance by king WIlliam I, published right after the Congress of Vienna, to call for the unity between the Dutch and Belgian citizens.
- Two copies trifle foxed, but otherwise fine; two copies sl. duststained and sl. foxed.
= Voet 2003; Belgica typographica 2628. Rare.
- Old annots. in the text; annot. in ballpoint on frontwr. and title. Upper margin cut short, sl. affecting the text.
= Not in Knuttel. Tiele 388.
- Occas. trifle foxed/ vaguely yellowed in outer blank margin; 19th cent. owner's entry of "G.M[?] vd Linden" on title-p. and his annots. on verso of first free endpaper. A few small old stains on frontcover. Otherwise fine.
= Very rare (no copies in JAP 1990-2022).
- First 2 lvs. sl. dam. (w. loss of a few letters); sl. waterst. = Rare. Knuttel 7866a.
AND 3 others, i.a. Reglement, op de Politycque reformatie in de Meyerye van 's Hertogenbosch (...) (The Hague, 1660, modern wr., sm. 4to) and the French ed. of the first work (The Hague, 1663. Cf. Knuttel 7866).
- Lacks first free endpaper. Upper joint weak/ split, but holding on cords; extremities rubbed.
= NNBW X, p.478-482; Scheepers II, 854. The rare pirated edition, published one year before the authorized edition. Contributions by 117 male and female poets.
- Library stamp on title. Otherwise fine.
Bukentop, H. de. Lux de Luce libri tres, in quorum primo ambiguae locutiones, in secundo variae ac dubiae lectiones, quae in Vulgata Latina S. Scripturae Editione occurrunt, ex Originalium Linguarum Textibus illustrantur (...) in tertio Agitur de Editione Sixti V. facta anno 1590 (...). Cologne, W. Friessem, 1710, (16),536p., contemp. calf, gilt spine w. mor. letterpiece, sm. 4to.
- Ttile-p. w. contemp. owner's entries and libr. stamp; partly (sl.) browned. Frontcover sl. acid-bitten; spine w. remnants of tickets.
- A few inkstains; one leaf (L9) lacks upper outer corner (w. loss of a few words); upper hinge weak. Vellum duststained.
= Impressive dictionary of the Greek words in the New Testament. Rare. Owner's entry of Rutgerus Paludanus (1736-1788), Dutch lawyer, author and i.a. mayor of Alkmaar.
AND an incomplete copy of G. BRANDT, Kort verhaal van de Reformatie (lacks at least 2 plates and bookblock loosening).
- Sl./ trifle browned/ foxed; contemp. owner's entry on title-p. All bindings rubbed/ sl. worn along extremities.
- Hinges broken, bookblock loosening; sl. browned; two contemp. owner's entries on title ("W. de Selijs" and "P. Preudhomme"); contemp. annots. on prelim lvs. (i.a. "emptus Lovani auctione A 1682 461"). Lacks ties.
= Second and most complete edition of this work on the Persian empire. Adams B2851; Schwab 69.
- A few leaves in the first quire erroneously bound; sl. browned. Corners showing.
= First edition of this work describing the funeral rites of the Romans, Greeks, Egyptians, Scythians, Indians (some details concerning the American Indians of Peru), Hebrews, Turks and Christians. Cicognara 1753; Graesse V, p.216; cf. Lipperheide Ba 4 and Hiler 702.
- Contemp. owner's entry/ libr. stamp on first free endpaper and title; final index leaf dam. by silverfish; lacks final free endpaper; occas. sl. dampstained.
= De Backer/ Sommervogel VI, p.693. With manuscript schoolprize to Arnoldus Limpens "ex Oirsbeek", dated 1786, on upper pastedown.
Chifflet, P.F. Sacrosancti et oecumenici Concilii Tridentini Paulo III. Iulio III. et Pio IV. pontificibus maximis celebrati canones et decreta. Antw., Ex Officina Plantiniana B. Moretus, 1640, (48),358,(2),LXXII,(62)p., engr. title, 3 woodcut portraits, contemp. calf, 12mo.
- Pastedowns detached. Covers rubbed; spine cracked; spine-ends and corners sl. dam.
= Not in De Backer/ Sommervogel and BCNI.
- Partly sl. dampstained in lower blank margin; hinges strengthened. Binding w. sl. rubbed corners and top of spine sl. worn. Otherwise a fine copy.
= Provenance: William Halewijn Museum (w. owner's entry and owner's stamp on first free endpaper). Cat. Bilderwelten 4; Cohen/ De Ricci p.531 (first French language edition of 1733). The first and only German edition of this beautiful work, a highlight of 18th century Dutch bookillustration. The work consists of 60 full-page plates within different ornamental borders, w. engr. captions in French, English, German and Dutch, illustrating the Metamorphoses by Ovidius, each plate with the matching verses in Latin and a prose adaptation with explanation in German. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XCVI.
- Rebacked/ restored with orig. backstrip. Fine copy.
= Tall (large paper?) copy (47x31 cm.). Beautiful plates. A Dutch edition was published in the same year as the French edition. Cohen/ De Ricci 531; cf. Fürstenberg, Das französische Buch 71 and Sander 1899.
- Two plates (and text lvs.) w. tear in blank margin just reaching image; one plate sl. foxed. Binding worn/ sl. dam..
= Cohen/ De Ricci p.531; cf. Fürstenberg, Das französische Buch p.71 and Sander 1899. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XCVI.
- Partly (sl.) browned and waterst. = BCNI 5118.
- Endpapers browned; some libr./ cancellation stamps; top margin cut sl. short (no loss of text); vaguely waterst.; a few lvs. sl. wormholed in blank margin. Otherwise a good, nicely bound copy.
= Voet 618; Belgica Typographica 230; BCNI 3738; Pettegree, NB 2958. Rare ed., only 1 copy in STCV. Written by Martín de Azpilcueta of Navarro (1492-1586), professor at Toulouse, Salamanca and Coimbra, renowned for being the first to formulate the quantity theory of money. "Seine Schriften, stark an Zahl, sind durchweg in scholastischer Form gehalten, nehmen dabei Rücksicht auf die Praxis. (...) Am meisten gebraucht wurde sein Enchiridion s. manuale Confessariorum (...) in nicht übertriebener casuistischer Form" (Wetzer I, 1778).
- Second work title-p. soiled; occas. (sl.) soiled/ (mould)stained; partly sl. wormholed (affecting letters in final work). Lacks one catch; rebound with use of (dried/ cracked) leather.
- Stamp on title-p. Binding sl. faded, worn and lacks cornerpieces.



















































