- Titles sl. foxed, otherwise contents fine. Bindings unevenly browned (spines worse) and sl. duststained.
= Rare travel account by the Dutch artist Hendrik Willem Cramer (1809-1874). He describes his movements, his daily affairs, but also the various theatres, churches, monuments and of course the artworks he sees.
- Slightly yellowed. Joints split(ting); backstrip loose; top of spine worn/ dam.; covers rubbed.
= Gay/ Lemonnyer III, p.1135. Cf. Cioranescu 21744 (ed. 1742) and Hayn/ Gotendorf I, p.701 (other eds.). Popular work reprinted frequently at the time. The first edition was publ. in Paris in 1742.
- Covers sl. rubbed and occas. chafed. Contents fine.
= From the library of Ludovicus Raemaeckers (1745-1818), pastor of Limmel and Borgharen near Maastricht, w. his owner's entry on first/ second blank of each vol.
- Title w. libr. stamp on verso; one textp. lower outer blank corner torn off; pastedowns detached.
= Reichelt 88; cat. Memento Mori, Dansen met de dood 39. Not in Oppermann etc. The rare first Dutch edition of the Besonders meublirt und gezierte Todten-Capelle, oder Allgemeiner Todten-Spiegel.
- Bookplates on both pastedowns; textpages foxed/ yellowed throughout (plates not affected). Frontcover loose, backcover waterstained and backstrip lacking.
= The first 38 pages consist of the essay by Douce "On the Dance of Death". SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXXX.
BOUND WITH: Lydgate, D.J. The Daunce of Machabree: Wherein is lively expressed and shewed The State of Manne, And how he is called at uncertayne tymes by Death, and when he thinketh least thereon. N.pl., n.publ., n.d. (±1816), (43)p., engr. frontisp. portrait of the author ("From an Original Drawing in a MS in the Harleian Library N.1766. Published as the Act directs Jan.y 1,1792, by John Simco Book & Printseller (...) London"), (45))p.
- Foxed. = Scott Warthin p.74 p.131, no. 129. Rare edition.
- Binding sl. worn; joints splitting; backstrip dam. Internally good/ fine.
= Brunet I, p.513; Graesse I, p.233.
- Lacks the portrait; title-p. w. sm. dam. spot. Good copy.
- First few quires w. waterstain. Without backstrip (prob. never attached).
BOUND WITH: Keuren en ordonnantien van het Hooge Heemraadschap van Delfland (...). Ibid., C. and S. van Graauwenhaan, 1809, 387,(33)p. - AND BOUND WITH: Keuren en ordonnantien van het Hooge heemraadschap van Delfland (...). Ibid., P. de Groot, (1838?), 130,(20)p. - AND BOUND WITH: Keuren en ordonnantien van het hoogheemraadschap van Delfland (...) Ibid., idem, (1840), 11p. - WITH: "'t Hooge Heemraedschap van Delflant." Partly handcol. engr. map by D. KOSTER, 51,5x58,5 cm., 1712.
- Poor copy, laid down on linen; soiled, creased, frayed.
= Highly detailed map, the reduced size map belonging to the wallmap published by Kruikius in 1712, as described by Donkersloot-De Vrij 806: "Bij de grote (...) kaart behoort een verkleining op schaal 1:45.000 (...), die ook werd opgenomen in de Nieuwe Atlas... uitgegeven door J. Covens en C. Mortier.".
AND 2 others: "Wapenen der weledele heeren hoog bailliuwen, opper-dykgraaven, hoog-heemraaden, secretarissen & penning-meesteren van Delfland" (heraldic engraving, Amst., I. Tirion, 1756) and "Ware afbeeldinghe van Delflandt." (20th cent. impression of the engr. wallmap by Floris Balthasarsz (1611), in 10 sheets).
- Without the later published "Vervolg". Profile and large plan folds strengthened; 4 plates with (restored) tear/ dam. spot; profile and one plate w. sm. brown stains; partly (vaguely) waterst. in upper inner corner; stamp on title-p.; upper hinge weak. Backstrip partly cracked; boards rubbed.
= Nijhoff/ Van Hattum 29.
- Apart from the following minor defects a fine copy: one textleaf and one plate sl. stained in lower margin; occas. trifle foxed. First free endpaper renewed; binding sl. rubbed along extremities.
= The desirable panorama in very fine condition. From the library of W.C. Baert de Waarde, with his bookplate and w. owner's entry "J. Jacobs van der Werff" on upper pastedown. Nijhoff/ Van Hattum 34. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXXVII.
- Lacks 1 textleaf; first and final few lvs. trifle waterst. in blank margin. = Nijhoff/ Van Hattum 40.
- A few maps/ plates loose (but still very fine); one sm. dampstain in blank margin of the plan of "Vesalia". Fingernail-size hole in backstrip. A very good copy.
= Haitsma Mulier/ Van der Lem 2156; Bodel-Nijenhuis 440; Willems 352; Rahir 326; Ter Horst, Daniel Heinsius, p.104. The first French edition of this account of the siege and capture of Den Bosch in 1629 by stadholder Frederick Hendrik of Holland. The original Latin edition (with the same plates) was published by the Elzeviers in the same year.
- Each vol. w. libr. stamp and shelfmark on (h)title; frontisp. cut sl. short in right margin; upper hinge weak. Sl. worn along extremities.
= Nijhoff/ Van Hattum 132; Haitsma Mulier/ Van der Lem 221; De Buck 4209.
- Lacks the portrait; all vols. w. owner's stamp (vol. 1 w. some tipp-ex); partly sl./ trifle waterst. Bindings sl. rubbed/ worn along extremities.
= Nijhoff/ Van Hattum 132; Haitsma Mulier/ Van der Lem 221; De Buck 4209.
- Sm. portion of first free endpaper cut off. Fine copy.
= Nijhoff/ Van Hattum 232; Van Herwijnen 2903.
- (Vaguely) waterst. Vellum and endpapers soiled; lacks ties.
= Nijhoff/ Van Hattum 232; Van Herwijnen 2903.
- Lacks free endpapers; a few lvs./ quires loose(ning); occas. sl. waterst./ soiled. Vellum soiled.
= Nijhoff/ Van Hattum 232; Van Herwijnen 2903.
AND an incomplete copy of P. BOR CHRZ., Gelegentheyt van 's Hertogen-Bosch (The Hague, 1630, contemp. vellum. Lacks engr. and letterpress title).
- Spine-ends worn; corners showing.
= Cohen/ De Ricci 287; Sander 456; Reynaud 124.
- Pastedowns loose. A fine copy.
= Thijssen-Schoute, p.440: "In deze werken laat de Hr. L. C. een groote agting blijken voor Descartes wiens algemeene grondbeginselen hij volgt; maar hij wijkt dikwijls af van zijn bijzondere gissingen, die door reden of door ondervindingen wederleid".
- Bindings w. some sm. worn/ dam. spots.
Regnard, J.-F. Oeuvres. Amst., Aux Dépens de la Compagnie, 1753, 3 vols., (4),12,396; (4),400; (4),423p., contemp. unif. calf.
- Vol. 2 sl. mouldy at the beginning and end.