- Trifle foxed; final lvs. w. some closed tears and strengthened/ restored spots. Corners showing.
= Ferguson IV, p.35; Caillet 132 ("Edition rare de ce livre fort recherchée"). Curious work dealing with medicine, astrology and the benefits of certain herbs, animals and gemstones to the human body.
- Lacks frontisp.; title-p. loose(ning) and w. some inkstains and old annots.; sl. yellowed and fingersoiled; pagination occas. skipping, but complete. Joints splitting; corners showing.
= Caillet 1681. Rare esoteric treatise presenting a new system of the universe.
- Quire X and Y bound in wrong order; a few quires towards the end browned. Lower end of joints and foot of spine wormholed/ chipped.
= Popular book on various rituals practised in the Roman Catholic church, containing i.a. a chapter on excorcism. Coumont C64.5.
- Contents occas. sl. dust/ fingersoiled. Paper over covers worn; corners worn.
= Bierens de Haan 1313; Houzeau-Lancaster 5456. Rare. Nothing could be traced on the author.
- Partly yellowed/ browned; one leaf w. closed tear; one leaf. w. sm. hole (loss of sm. letters); upper joint almost split; bookplate on upper pastedown.
= Cf. Caillet 4293: "Orientaliste et kabbaliste"; Peeters-Baertsoen 599; Rosenthal, Bibl. Magica et Pneumatica 1859; Thorndike VII, pp. 304-306. Rare. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE CXXXIII.
- Upper hinge broken, but holding on cords; foxed throughout. Binding worn. = Cf. Caillet 8074.
- Upper hinge broken; lacks upper pastedown; lower inner margin first few lvs. sl. nibbled by silverfish. Lower pastedown detached. Vellum soiled.
= Haitsma Mulier/ Van der Lem 222.
AND 1 other.
- Top of spine chipped.
= Extra illustrated with 7 (fold.) plates from various other works (one fold. plate strengthened on fold; 5 plates after engravings in Haemstede's Historie der Martelaren). Haitsma Mulier/ Van der Lem 228.
- Owner's entries on first free endpaper and on first blank; one fold. plate sl. fingersoiled on verso; upper hinge weakening. Corners trifle rubbed; top of spine sl. worn.
= Haitsma Mulier/ Van der Lem 228.
- New endpapers; a few plates sl. waterstained (mostly in blank margin only); portrait sl. fingersoiled in outer margin; plates often w. narrow blank margins. Otherwise a fine copy.
= Contains 4 more plates than called for. With a tipped-in manuscript letter and note by the bibliographer C. van Ommen on the extra plates. Haitsma Mulier/ Van der Lem 362a; Simoni O31 (French ed. of the same year). The colophon dated 1611, which is not recorded by the listed bibliographers (the title-p. giving 1610). Fine views of i.a. Bergen op Zoom, Zutphen, Deventer, Nijmegen, Coevorden, Geertruidenberg, Oldenzaal, Bredevoort, Gran Canaria. Also a few fine seabattles. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE CXXXIV.
- Contemp. owner's entry on first blank and title. Otherwise fine.
- Bookplate on upper pastedown; upper hinge broken; large map w. repaired tear; one map w. waterstain in lower part; outer edge of one view cut short w. loss of text. Backstrip restored.
= The first missionary voyage to the Pacific. Sabin 49480; Howgego W42; Kroepelien 528; Taylor 170; Ferguson 301; Cox II, p. 307; Carlsmith 181; Borba de Moraes p.943; Cat. Nat. Maritime Mus. 632: "This voyage was undertaken by the London Missionary Society, for the purpose of establishing a mission in Tahiti. A settlement of 25 persons was formed." "(...) The narrative is fresh, although sometimes naive, and provides a glimpse of everyday life on the islands that the mariner or naturalist didn't consider worth reporting. (...) The long "preliminary discourse" was anonymously written by Samuel Greatheed, using the then-unpublished narrative of James Morrison, one of the pardoned Bounty mutineers. (...)" (Hill 1894).
- Some foxing (also on some of the plates); sl. waterstained in upper outer blank margin/ corner. Upper hinge restored.
= Howgego W41; Hill 907; Cox II, p.302f; cat. Nat. Maritime Mus. 615; cf. Carlsmith Coll. 217. One of the most popular books on the Pacific at the close of the 18th cent. The crew of the shipwrecked Antelope built a small boat from the wreck, with which they sailed to Macao. They took with them Prince Lee Boo (son of King Abba Thule of the Palau Islands), who eventually arrived with them in England, but who, as so many of his predecessors, died soon of smallpox. "On the death of the Prince the East India Company sent out two vessels, the Panther and the Endeavour, under Captain McCluer to convey the sad news to Abba Thulle (...), together with some presents of seeds, plants, etc. McCluer finally married one of the native women and lived there for 15 months, when, growing tired of solitude, he managed to reach China in a native boat without compass or other instruments." Noteworthy for its influence on the idea of the noble savage and important for its detailed information on the Palau Islands and its inhabitants (p.365-378 contain a vocabulary of the Pelew language). SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE CXXXIV.
= "The work of an unknown and unsung Scottish editor, this chapbook has long passed for a separately written story" (Hill, p.463-464) rather than as Keate's original account. Rare.
- Occas. sl. foxed; a few textp. w. markings/ underlining in pen and ink. Vellum sl. stained.
= Knuttel 7879.
= Knuttel 784. First edition in Dutch of the Earl of Leicesters justification of his conduct in Holland during the summer of 1587, delivered before the States-General in Dordrecht on 7th September 1587.
= Knuttel 706. Dutch translation of a French original (cf. Knuttel 705). Sometimes attributed to Marnix van Sint Aldegonde (Tiele 283).
- Both title-pages sl. (dust)stained.
= Knuttel 795 and 797. Debate between Holland and Utrecht, on the support for Queen Elisabeth and Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester.
= Knuttel 2569.
Placcaet Vande Ho. Mo. Heeren Staten Generael der Vereenighde Nederlanden op het afdancken ende licentieren vande nieuwe aengenomene Waert-gelders. The Hague, H. Jacobsszoon, 1618, (5)p., woodcut title-vignette, contemp. chintz wr.
- Sl. waterstained. = Knuttel 2682.
Waerschouwingh Voor Hamans Loon aen den Autheur van de Croon des Muytighen Echo. N.pl., n.publ., 1628, (16)p., sl. later wr.
= Knuttel 3823.
Sententie Van den Hove van Hollandt, Zeelandt ende Vrieslandt, jegens Abraham van Wicquefort. Ibid., J. Scheltus, 1675, (12)p., woodcut title-vignette, sl. later wr.
= Knuttel 11352.
AND 14 other 17th cent. (10x) and 18th cent. Dutch pamphlets, i.a. Reglement voor de respective Vendu-meesters ofte Stock-houders van sijn Hoogheyts Steden, Landen, Dorpen en Heerlijckheden (The Hague, 1683, later wr.).
- Years on the 3 htitles corrected w. pen and ink; first part sl. wormholed/ waterst. in (blank) margins. Binding fine.
= Resolutions of the State of Holland and West-Friesland between February 13, 1646 and December 22, 1648.