- Possibly lacks a number of portraits; occas. (sl.) yellowed/ browned. Covers sl. rubbed; vol. 7 backstrip and volume-piece dam.; 8 vols. joints splitting at (worn/ dam.) spine-ends.
- Waterstained throughout; hinges weak.
= From the library of Kurt Lindner (Bibliotheca Tiliana) w. his bookplate on upper pastedown and sm. stamp on verso of title-p. and of final leaf. Important source of music, theatre and hunting in antiquity. Graesse V, p.392; Hofmann III, p.345; Schweiger I, p.270.
= Rare.
- New endpapers; (sl.) foxed; occas. (water)stained.
- First blank and title w. contemp. owner's entries; hinges weak. Backstrip worn/ dam. = Schweiger p.897.
Suetonius Tranquillus, C. (...) et in eum commentarius. Ed. J. Schildius. Leyden and Rott., ex Officina Hackiana, 1667, 4th ed., (32),845,(88)p., engr. title, 12 portraits, schoolprize in contemp. gilt panelled overlapping vellum w. gilt coat of arms of ROTTERDAM on both covers.
- Contemp. underlining/ annots. in pen throughout; occas. sl. waterst. in blank margins; a few inkstains. Upper joint split; frontcover clumsily reattached and vellum sl. wrinkled; backstrip dam.; gilding worn.
= Schweiger p.977. On the binding: Spoelder 1.
- Pastedowns loose. = Willems 1553; Rahir 1690; Schweiger II,2 p.940f.
- Upper endpapers and title-p. w. contemp. owner's entry/ annots.; a few lvs. w. contemp. underlining/ marginal annots. Vellum sl. soiled/ stained.
= Adams S1451; Hoffmann III, p.415; Schweiger p.290-291.
- Bookplate on upper pastedown. = Geerebaert CXXXVIII, 10; this ed. not in Schweiger.
Lucianus Samosatensis. Alle de Werken. Nieuwlyks uit het Grieks vertaalt door S.B. (= Steven Blankaart). Amst., J. ten Hoorn, 1679, 2 vols., (20),714,(6); 869[=877],(3)p., etched frontisp. and 1 (of 12) fold. plate by R. DE HOOGHE, contemp. unif. vellum, 12mo.
- Poor incomplete copy. Sold w.a.f.
- Hinges weak/ nearly broken. Vellum sl. wrinkled. = Hoffman III, p.247.
- Lacks the portrait of Stewechius and first blank; occas. (water)stained/ yellowed/ browned (final lvs. worse); fold. plan stained and w. large horizontal tear; a few lvs. sl. (worm)holed in text/ image; a few lvs. restored; some scattered contemp. underlining/ annots. Upper joint splitting; vellum sl. warped.
= Adams V336.
- Partly waterstained. = Geerebaert CXLII 17, II; Hollstein 232ad, no.3-14.
- Wormholed in lower blank margin; bookblock shaken. Binding w. a few dam. spots. = Schweiger p.1170.
- Lacks the map of Aeneas' voyage; libr. stamp on endpapers and verso title; final textleaf water-/ dampst. Covers w. a few sm. worn spots; foot of spine and lower boardedges (sl.) worn/ dam.
= Rahir 1651; Willems 1523 note; Schweiger II, p.1171. "(...) cette édition de Virgile (...) a sur celle-ci l'avantage d'une extrême correction. Le texte en est si pur, qu'il a servi de base à celui de Burman, et à la plupart de ceux qui ont paru depuis." (Willems).
- Occas. sl. foxed (mostly in blank margins, and not affecting the engravings). Binding sl. worn along extremities; upper joint starting.
= Cohen/ De Ricci p.436; Sander 780; Fürstenberg 122 and 205; Ray p.145. Copy with ample margins, the plates before numbers and (partly) before letters. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXXIX.
- Vol. 2 only; bookplate on upper pastedown; some offsetting from plates on opposite pages; occas. sl. yellowed. Spine professionally restored w. orig. backstrip (sl. worn and w. some craquelure).
= First edition of the official account of Cook's second voyage, published when he was away on his third voyage. Sabin 16245; Beddie 1216; National Maritime Museum London 577; Henze II p.713; Hocken p.15; Hill 358; Cox I, p.59. "The succes of Cook's first voyage led the Admiralty to send him on a second expedition, described in the present work, which was to circumnavigate the globe as far south as possible in search of any southern continents. Cook proved there was no "Terra Australis" which supposedly lay between New Zealand and South America, but became convinced that there must be land beyond the ice fields. Further visits were made to New Zealand, and on two great sweeps Cook made an astonishing series of discoveries and rediscoveries including Easter Island, the Marquesas, Tahiti and the Society Islands, Niue, the Tonga Islands, the New Hebridies, New Caledonia, Norfolk Island and a number of smaller islands (...) William Hodges was the artist with the expedition" (Hill).
- Lacks vol. 3. Partly foxed. both vols. rebacked w. use of 19th cent. backstrip; frontcover of vol.2 loosening.
= Beddie 1552; Sabin 16250; Cox I, p.63; Forbes 69. "Cook discovered the Hawaiian Islands on this, his third voyage of discovery, and named them the Sandwich Islands in honor of his patron, the Earl of Sandwich." (Judd/ Lind p.1); "On his return from the second voyage Cook was promptly rewarded for his achievements (...). In 1776 he volunteered for his third and final voyage, with specific instructions to investigate the coasts of the north Pacific, and to settle once and for all the question of the northwest passage. (...) While on Hawaii [after his return from the Bering Sea] relationships with the natives deteriorated, resulting in the death of Cook (14.2.79) during a skirmish. After the theft by natives of one of the Discovery's boats, Cook had gone ashore with a party of marines. A scuffle ensued which compelled the party to return to their boats, but during the retreat Cook received a blow from behind and was subsequently overpowered." (Howgego C175). SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXXIX.
- The leaf w. "A description of the cuts" misbound, and w. old annots. in (strengthened) margins giving the relevant pages in the various vols.
= All PLATES BEFORE LETTERS. First edition, published in the same year as the second, recognizable by the continuous pagination between vol. 2 and 3. Our copy with the Chart of the Straights of Magellan in vol.1 (not contained in earliest copies of the first edition). Cox I, p.19; Hill 782; Sabin 30934; Beddie 648; Henze II, p.713; Kroepelien 535; Smith p.46f. Contains the official account of Cook's first voyage commanding the Endeavour, edited from his journals by Hawkesworth and containing in the preceding sections the official accounts of the voyages of Byron, Wallis and Carteret. Hawkesworth's compendium contains the cream of English exploring voyages of the mid-18th century. "Hawkesworth was expected to add polish to the rough narratives of sea men, and to present the accounts in a style befitting the status of the voyages as official government expeditions, intended to embellish England's prestige as a maritime power." (Hill).
Cook, J. A Voyage towards the South Pole and Round the World. Performed in His Majesty's Ships the Resolution and Adventure, In the Years 1772, 1773, 1774, and 1775. Ibid., iidem, 1777, 1st ed., 2 vols., XL,378; (8),396p., engr. frontisp. portrait, 63 (of 64) (fold.) engr. maps/ charts/ plates/ portraits after W. HODGES a.o., unif. bound with the preceding work, 4to.
- Vol. 1 lacks the large folding map of the Southern hemisphere; 17 plates with imprint in lower margin shaved or lacking; 2 plates w. with margins shaved (affecting decorative borders); the portrait of Otago w. sm. brown stain near dagger above his head; sm. tear at lower end of inner margin (reaching 2,5 cm. into image). Paper over covers sl. chafed. Otherwise a fine and clean copy.
= First edition of the official account of Cook's second voyage, published when he was away on his third voyage. Sabin 16245; Beddie 1216; National Maritime Museum London 577; Henze II p.713; Hocken p.15; Hill 358; Cox I, p.59; Mendelssohn p.377; O'Reilly-Reitman 390; Kroepelien 206; PMM 223; Smith p.53f. "The succes of Cook's first voyage led the Admiralty to send him on a second expedition, described in the present work, which was to circumnavigate the globe as far south as possible in search of any southern continents. Cook proved there was no "Terra Australis" which supposedly lay between New Zealand and South America, but became convinced that there must be land beyond the ice fields. Further visits were made to New Zealand, and on two great sweeps Cook made an astonishing series of discoveries and rediscoveries including Easter Island, the Marquesas, Tahiti and the Society Islands, Niue, the Tonga Islands, the New Hebridies, New Caledonia, Norfolk Island and a number of smaller islands (...) William Hodges was the artist with the expedition" (Hill). SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXXVIII.
- Some maps and plates (sl.) yellowed/ sl. foxed; all vols. w. new endpapers. All vols. professionally rebacked w. use of orig. backstrips; vol.3 some scratches on backcover. A good/ fine set.
= Published in the same year as the first edition. Cox I, p.19; Hill 782; Sabin 30934; Beddie 648; Henze II, p.713; Kroepelien 535; Smith p.46f. Contains the official account of Cook's first voyage commanding the Endeavour, edited from his journals by Hawkesworth and containing in the preceding sections the official accounts of the voyages of Byron, Wallis and Carteret. Hawkesworth's compendium contains the cream of English exploring voyages of the mid-18th century. "Hawkesworth was expected to add polish to the rough narratives of sea men, and to present the accounts in a style befitting the status of the voyages as official government expeditions, intended to embellish England's prestige as a maritime power." (Hill). SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXXIX.
- Occas. foxed (esp. first quire and the portrait). Frontcover and first quire loose; binding worn.
= The first edition of the first English biography of Cook.
- Bindings occas. chafed/ scratched. Attractively bound set. = Cf. Cohen/ De Ricci p.255/256.