- First free endpaper partly restored.
= Ad 1: Ekama 427; ad 2: Bodel Nijenhuis 1010; ad 3: Bodel Nijenhuis 1611. Provenance: the collection A.M. van den Broek, with his annots. tipped onto upper pastedown.
- Dam. at foot of spine. = Haitsma Mulier/ Van der Lem 16.
- Upper hinge strengthened. Good/ fine copy. = Haitsma Mulier/ Van der Lem 16.
- Contents fine. Spine-ends and corners worn/ dam.; paper over covers partly chafed.
= Sander 1794; Van de Waal, Drie eeuwen vaderlandsche geschied-uitbeelding I, 210.
- Occas. trifle foxed/ stained; 2 lvs. w. 19th-cent. annot. A fine copy.
= Fine portraits. Haitsma Mulier/ Van der Lem 436d; De Buck p.107-109; De Wind 412.
- Contemp. annot. on lower pastedown; splendid copy.
= Tiele 1010; Haitsma Mulier/ Van der Lem 447a; Bodel Nijenhuis 88. Provenance: the collection A.M. van den Broek, with his annots. tipped onto upper pastedown.
- Three bookplates on verso frontcover; trifle/ sl. foxed; 1 plate loose. Binding rubbed.
= Tiele 1010; Haitsma Mulier/ Van der Lem 447a; Bodel Nijenhuis 88.
- Upper hinge weak; partly sl. waterst. in blank upper margin; w. sl. later dedication/ owner's entry (dated 1690) on first free endpaper. Vellum dam. along overlapping edges; stain and sm. wormhole on back cover.
= Haitsma Mulier/ Van der Lem 450.
- Part 2 only. Map sl. foxed; 1 plate torn w. loss of portion of image; 1 plate w. sm. tear; plates otherwise fine. Partly trifle wormholed in lower blank margin; fore-edge w. sm. inkstains; binding sl. worn/ rubbed.
= Rare first ed. of Strada's work on the second decade of the Dutch Revolt (1578-1590), describing the campaign of Alexander Farnese in the Low Countries. De Backer/ Sommervogel VII, p.1609 (no. 10); Brunet V, p.557; Van der Heijden 7.2. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE CXXXII.
- Fold. map w. sm. tear; final pastedown vol. 1 loose, otherwise contents of both vols. fine. Backstrips (sl.) soiled.
= Willems 1652 (note; printed by Jan Jansson); Van der Heijden, Leo Belgicus 12.1 (copy c).
- The map loosely inserted; bookplate on upper pastedown; partly trifle yellowed. Binding sl. worn along edges.
- Without the engr. divisional titles of part 2 and 3; occas. sl. foxed (incl. plates). Corners showing; upper joint split.
- Lacks first free endpaper; partly sl. waterstained; title-p. browned and w. crossed-out owner's entry in top margin. Corners and spine-ends (sl.) worn.
= Van Doorninck I, 365; De Wind p.476 and p.590ff. At the end: "Liedeken op het Jaer 1572. Gemaeckt door Broer Hendrick van Biesten". Rare first edition.
- Title-p. dam. (and restored); a few leaves w. (ink)stain; occas. cut short in outer margin (affecting glosses and a few of the ills. extending into the outer margin); bookplate on upper pastedown. Joints professionally restored; spine-ends chipped.
= Rare third edition (first published Ghent, 1568 as Den spieghel der Nederlandscher audtheyt). Provenance: ex bibliotheca "B.M. Soctis. Jesu Brugis D.D. Dca Theresia Maviannis 1739" (old annot. in pen in upper margin of title-p.). From the "Bibliothecae Hafflighemensis. 1780" (old annot. in pen in lower margin of title-p.). Bibl. Belg. V65; Haitsma Mulier/ Van der Lem 477a; cf. De Wind p.160-165 ("het zonderlingste boek, 't welk ooit de pers verlaten heeft") and Scheepers I, 9 ("Zeer zeldzaam en hoogst merkwaardig werk"). SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE CXXXIII.
- Later ms. annot. on verso first free endpaper; title for the larger part detached; sl. browned; partly waterstained in lower part; a few lvs. w. inkstain. Dam. spot in upper joint; top of spine worn.
= Rare third edition (first published Ghent, 1568 as Den spieghel der Nederlandscher audtheyt). Bibl. Belg. V65; Haitsma Mulier/ Van der Lem 477a; cf. De Wind p.160-165 ("het zonderlingste boek, 't welk ooit de pers verlaten heeft") and Scheepers I, 9 ("Zeer zeldzaam en hoogst merkwaardig werk").
- (Sl.) foxed throughout; first ±12 lvs. sm. waterstain in upper blank margin; bookplate on upper pastedown. Vellum trifle soiled; sl. warped.
= Haitsma Mulier/ Van der Lem 309b; De Wind p.45-49.
- Occas. sl. foxed (mainly in blank margin). Top of spine chipped; sl. worn along extremities.
= Good/ fine large paper copy of a section of one of the finest and most attractive series of views depicting the Netherlands in the 18th century.
- Lower hinge weak; occas. (sl.) waterst.; partly sl. browned; multiple bookplates on upper pastedown. Sm. tears at top of spine in joints and backstrip; vellum sl. soiled.
= De Wind p.421-424; Haitsma Mulier/ Van der Lem 502. A history of Holland and Zeeland up to 1433, first published in Latin, 1635. Bound with sm. publisher's list.
- Pastedowns occas. detaching (vol. 15 upper pastedown torn/ dam.). A few backstrips sl. soiled. A good/ fine vellum-bound set.
= Haitsma Mulier/ Van der Lem 507f; De Buck 1130.
- Lacks 1 plate; fold. portrait repaired on verso; headpiece cut inside the plate; plates sl. soiled/ creased (1x partly vaguely waterst.; 1x sl. foxed); 1 plate laid down; marg. waterstains/ some sm. repairs; occas. trifle wormholed in blank margins.
= Landwehr, Splendid Ceremonies 126; F.M. 2156. Fine plates depicting i.a. the arrival in Delft, the Inner Court at The Hague and the departure from Scheveningen.