- Frontcover (almost) loose; lower joint split; corners bumped.
= Cf. Proksch II, p.277 (German transl. Vienna 1770).
Hazlitt, W. The Spirit of the Age: or Contemporary Portraits. London, H. Colburn, 1825, (4),424p., contemp. gilt hcalf.
- Occas. trifle foxed. Spine rubbed; lacks letterpiece; portion of backstrip loose(ning).
= Interesting publication with portraits of i.a. Lord Byron, Sir Walter Scott, Wordsworth, T.R. Malthus and Jeremy Bentham.
- Lacks one plate; bookplate on first blank and 19th cent. entries on first free endpapers and lower pastedown; lacks final free endpaper
= Rare first and only edition of a treatise on tobacco. Arents II, 414: "The original intention of the author was to refute Van Peima [Tabacologica] chapter by chapter, but he decided to write as a naturalist and treat particularly of the tobacco plant. All the elements or factors which affect plants are explained or discussed: the movements of celestial bodies, climate, parthenogenesis, etc. An account of the origin of tobacco, its nomenclature, species and varieties, physical characteristics, cultivation, preparation, curing, chemical composition (of tobacco and other plants), comparative medicinal values, etc., etc. are all fully given in separate chapters". Not in Nissen, BBI nor Pritzel.
- Title-p. doubled; (vaguely) waterst.; owner's stamp on first blank. Vellum sl. stained/ soiled.
= Rare, only 2 copies in Worldcat. French transl. of Torsellini's Epitome historiarum a mundo condito ad annum 1598 by Jean Tournet with his supplements.
- Some sl. foxing. Binding somewhat soiled and sl. warped.
= The date on the title changed to "1726" in pen and ink. Without the "Vervolg" publ. Middelburg, 1731.
- One index leaf in vol.2 stained in upper left margin of text. Vellum sl. duststained. Fine copy.
= Vol. 1 warranted by the author. Important publication explaining the origin and meaning of approximately 1500 Dutch proverbs. The four parts at the end of vol. 2 contain the Dutch translation of the medieval didactic poem Regimen sanitatis Salernitanum, which includes popular meteorological knowledge, forecasts and superstitions.
- Lacks 1 plate; title-p. stained/ soiled and w. sm. hole; waterst. at the beginning; fingersoiled throughout. Backstrip cracking; spine sl. worn along edges.
= First published in 1680 in 4to. Cox I, p.212-213; Blackmer sale 750: "Grelot was the first to prepare detailed plans of St. Sophia and other monuments in Constantinople. (...) He wandered about the city disguised as a Turk and was able to gain access to the mosques. The plans which he made of St. Sophia were the only reasonable accurate delineations of the building in existence for over 150 years (...)". SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE CXL.
- Lacks lvs. XLIV and XLV; new endpapers; bookplate on upper pastedown; title-p. strengthened along inner margin; upper hinge broken; 17th cent. owner's entry on title. Backstrip dam.; corners showing.
= Rare first Dutch translation of De Vita dell' invitissimo e sacratissimo imperator Carlo Quinto (1560). Sabin 97678; Cat. NHSM I, p.563; Muller, America p.365: "Highly esteemed biography of Charles V, includes an account of all the events which took place during the years 1500-1560 and especially of all the achievements of the Spaniards in America".
- Partly waterstained; occas. underlinings and contemp. annots. in blank margins. Lacks clasps and catches; backstrip dam. (w. restored spots).
= Curious binding with a stamp of the VOC chamber of Amsterdam on frontcover, possibly crossed out with binding tools?
- Owner's entry dated 1889 on first free endpaper. A fine copy.
= Bodel Nijenhuis 2290; De Wind p.146ff. "Dit werk 't welk de geschiedenis der burgerlijke onlusten te Utrecht (bekend onder de naam Conrots-spel), en van den overgang van het gebied van den Utrechtschen bisschop aan keizer Karel de vijfden bevat, begint na eene geschiedkundige inleiding met den jare 1524 en loopt door tot het laatst van 1529. Daar de kundige schrijver tijdgenoot en grootendeels ooggetuige was van het geen hij verhaalt en daarbij blijkbaar met de beste trouw en goede hulpmiddelen geschreven heeft, is dit uitvoerig werk voor de Utrechtsche, ja voor de geheele Nederlandsche geschiedenis van groot belang." (De Wind).
- Contemp. owner's entry and annots. on first blank; title-p. of first work repaired and reattached; partly sl. wormholed/ waterst. in blank margin. Spine(-ends) and corners restored w. later leather.
= Haitsma Mulier/ Van der Lem 474b; De Wind p.471ff; NNBW II, p.1469-1472. The third edition of this basic Dutch historiography covering an essential period in Dutch history (first edition published anonymously one year earlier, the second in 1647, but with the publisher's name J. Naeranus). This edition with Uytenbogaert's autobiography and his portrait.
= Very rare. Only 2 copies in STCN.
- A good/ fine and complete set with all the plates conforming to the binder's instruction in the final volume. With the following minor defects: occas. sl. wormholed (affecting a few maps/ plates); some maps w. usual creasing on fold(s); occas. (sl.) foxed (some leaves browned); some leaves in vol. 3 and 4/1 w. ruststains (occas. w. sm. corrosion holes); all vols. w. owner's entry on title-p. All vols. w. later (20th cent.) endpapers and w. unif. marbled calf over covers matching with the fine contemporary gilt backstrips; joints starting/ splitting; most spine-ends rubbed/ sl. worn.
= Landwehr, VOC 467; Tiele 1121; Alt Japan Katalog 1570; Cordier, Japonica 426-428; Cordier, Indosinica 927-930; Cat. NHSM I, 502; Mendelssohn IV, p.594. One of the most extensive works and the main old source on the Dutch East Indies with many documents, partly lost by now. Also containing important descriptions of i.a. Cape of Good Hope, China, Japan and Ceylon and 2 early voyages to Australia with interesting maps. For the description of the history of Amboina Valentyn used the unpublished and lost manuscript "Amboinsch Dierboek" by Rumphius. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE CXL.
- Lacks first free endpaper.
= Haitsma Mulier/ Van der Lem 482a (listing 2 (identical?) editions for 1675); Landwehr, R. de Hooghe 44.
Idem. Vervolg van 't verwerd Europa, of Politijke en Historische Beschryving van alle gedenkwaardigste Staats- en Krijgs- Voorvallen zoo binnen, als buyten 't Christen-ryk (...). Ibid., A. van Someren, 1688, (24),1058,96,(31)p., bound unif. w. the above.
- Frontisp. lacks sm. portion of outer blank margin. Otherwise fine.
= Haitsma Mulier/ Van der Lem 482a (listing 2 (identical?) editions for 1675); Landwehr, R. de Hooghe 44. A follow-up vol. was published in 1688. Complete in itself.
- Closed tear in leaf 28. Very fine copy.
= Bibl. Belg. V, p.471f; New Hollstein 157-208; Lipperheide Oc 11 (Latin ed. 1725); Van Someren I,169c. Contains portraits of i.a. Erasmus, Luther, Melanchthon, Jonas, Cruciger, Zwingli, Calvin and Beza.
- Upper hinge broken; (sl.) waterstained in (blank) margins at the beginning and end; first 5 textlvs. (incl. title-p.) sl. wormholed in blank margin; occas. sl. foxed/ (ink)stained; large manuscript coat of arms (unidentified) on loose upper pastedown; owner's entry on title. Bookblock loose; binding dam. and soiled. Sold w.a.f.
- Some sl. occas. foxing. Spine-ends worn. = Landwehr, VOC 1647. Rare.
- Fine copy with ample margins. Printed title of the small second textpart mounted on the blank verso of the last textpage of the first textpart. Plate vol. supplied w. letterpress title of the text vol. in photostat; the 3 fold. plans in the text vol. are duplicates of plans also included in the plate vol. Binding occas. rubbed and chafed.
= Landwehr, VOC 1502; Cordier, BI, 1489. Mendelssohn I, p.489: "(...) the origin of the United Provinces (Netherlands) Company, its first commercial treaties, the foundation of Batavia, the two memorable sieges of that town, the conquests by the Dutch of the Moluccas, Amboine, Banda, Macassar, Ceylon, Malabar, &c., their wars, alliances, progress, disasters, the loss of Formosa, the rebellion of the islanders of Amboine, Macassar, and Java, the disputes of the Company with European nations, the rising and massacre of the Chinese in Batavia, and in general all the events, public or private, worthy of remark relative to the affairs of the Indies during a period of 150 years (...)." Maps, plans and views of i.a. Amboina, Australia, Banda, Batavia, Celebes, Ceylon, Cochin, Java, Moluccas, Nangasaki, Ternate. The small second part consists of the Considérations sur l'état présent de la Compagnie Hollandoise des Indes Orientales, Rélativement à la Navigation, à son Commerce & à son Gouvernement; & sur les moyens de remédier aux causes de sa décadence by G.G. Baron d'Imhoff. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE CXLI.
- Occas. trifle yellowed. Joints and corners trifle rubbed. Otherwise fine.
= Landwehr, VOC 1502; Cordier, BI 1489. Mendelssohn I, p.489: "(...) the origin of the United Provinces (Netherlands) Company, its first commercial treaties, the foundation of Batavia, the two memorable sieges of that town, the conquests by the Dutch of the Moluccas, Amboine, Banda, Macassar, Ceylon, Malabar, &c., their wars, alliances, progress, disasters, the loss of Formosa, the rebellion of the islanders of Amboine, Macassar, and Java, the disputes of the Company with European nations, the rising and massacre of the Chinese in Batavia, and in general all the events, public or private, worthy of remark relative to the affairs of the Indies during a period of 150 years (...)." Maps, plans and views of i.a. Amboina, Australia, Banda, Batavia, Celebes, Ceylon, Cochin, Java, Moluccas, Nagasaki, Ternate. The short 2nd part consists of the Considérations sur l'état présent de la Compagnie Hollandoise des Indes Orientales, Rélativement à la Navigation, à son Commerce & à son Gouvernement; & sur les moyens de remédier aux causes de sa décadence by G.G. Baron d'Imhoff.
- Lacks the engr. title; title-p. sl. fingersoiled and outer blank margin restored; first free leaves (incl. title-p.) sl. browned in outer margin. Otherwise fine.
= All published. Landwehr, VOC 251; Cox I, p.30; Tiele 1179; Tiele, Mémoire 8. Contents (as listed by Landwehr): 1. Journals of Gerrit de Veer; 2. First Fleet (Cornelis de Houtman); 3. Second Fleet (Jacob Cornelisz. van Neck); Sebald de Weert's voyage around the world; 4. Olivier van Noort, voyage around the world; 5. Joris van Spilbergen's first voyage and Steven van der Haghen's first voyage; 6. Voyage of Cornelis Matelief; 7. Journals by Pieter van den Broeck; 8. Joris van Spilbergen's second voyage and the journal of Schouten and Le Maire; 9 Journal of the Nassau fleet, Jacques L'Hermite; 10. Journals by Willem IJsbrandtsz. Bontekoe and Dirk Albertsz. Raven; 11. Journal of the Batavia, François Pelsaert; 12. Johan van Twist, description of Gujerat; 13. François Caron, description of Japan with appendices. Extremely rare volume, being a shortened edition of I. Commelin's Begin ende Voortgangh, van de Vereenighde Nederlantsche Geoctroyeerde Oost-Indische Compagnie (...), leaving out 7 voyages, but enlarged with 2 new voyages. Only 1 copy in NCC (Mar. Mus. Prins Hendrik, Rotterdam). SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE CXLI.