- Lacks free endpapers; bookplate on upper pastedown; plates w. tiny wormhole. Joints starting.
= Rare 8vo edition, with smaller plates than in the original French 4to edition of The Hague, 1673. Landwehr, R.d.H. as bookillustrator 30, note; Hollstein IX, 90-96.
- All vols. first ±10 lvs. w. brittle margins and loss of paper (incl. title and portrait); occas sl. waterst./ (sl.) browned. Some vols. turn-ins loosening; all vols. foot of spine plasticized w. shelf ticket. Sold w.a.f.
= Claes 165.
- Without the mezzotint portrait. All vols. bookplate on upper pastedown; first vol. partly (sl.) waterstained and 2 lvs. loosening.
BOUND WITH: Idem. Puntdigten en byschriften. Gouda, L. Kloppenburg, 1712, (4),41,(3)p. - AND WITH: Idem. Zegepraal der goddelyke liefde, Vertoont in zeven en veertig Ziel opwekkende zinnebeelden. Gouda, L. Kloppenburg, 1710, 2nd ed., (24),222,(2)p., engr. frontisp., 47 ills.
= Landwehr 331.
- Some sl. foxing. Frontcover almost loose; backstrip worn. = Rare.
Wap, J.B. Gedenkboek der Inhuldiging en Feesttogten van Zijne Majesteit Willem II. 1840-1842. Den Bosch, J.F. Demelinne, n.d. (1842), (10),VII,375,(2),16,(6),18,(1)p., lithogr. title-p., 9 handcol. lithogr. plates, orig. dec. boards.
- Two lvs. loose(ning). Boads sl. worn.
= Plates show the guards of honour of various Dutch cities. Landwehr, Dutch Books with Col. Plates 472.
- Backstrips dried; paper over covers worn. = Haitsma Mulier/ Van der Lem 38a.
AND 2 others, i.a. P. LECLERQ, Het Leven van Frederik Henrik, Prins van Oranje, Graaf van Nassau (The Hague, 1737, 2 vols., 2 ident. engr. armorial title-vignettes by N. VAN DER MEER, 8 (of 9) maps/ views and plates by B. PICART, contemp. unif. vellum. Lacks the portrait and 1 plate).
- Occas. sl. waterstained in outer blank margins. The second work lacks the view "Het Stadhuis van Vere met zyne Eersieraadjen".
= Landwehr, Splendid Ceremonies 227-228; Kat. Orn. Berl. 2967 and 2968; Lipperheide Sd 31; Vinet 642; Lotz, Feuerwerk p.105.
- Both vols. w. libr. stamp on title-p.; 1 map upper margin cut sl. short. Otherwise fine.
= Cf. Haitsma Mulier/ Van der Lem 112b.
- Edges and corners sl. worn; top of spine chipped. Otherwise fine.
= Rare, large paper copy. W.A.P. Smit, 'De vaderlandse epen van Johannes Nomsz 1779; 1789' (Assen, 1983), p.775-803.
ADDED: incomplete copies of A. MONTANUS, 't Leven en Bedryf van Frederik Henrik (Amst., 1652, 3rd enl. ed., engr. title, 4 portraits and 2 (of 11) plates, contemp. hcalf w. mor. letterpiece, 12mo. Lacks 9 plates; with 8 fold. plans from other works) and IDEM, 't Leven en Bedryf der Prinsen van Oranje (Amst., 1664, 1 engr. portrait, modern rexine, sm. 8vo. Lacks halftitles and plates).
- A few lvs. sl. waterst./ browned. Binding sl. rubbed/ worn along extremities. Otherwise a good copy.
= Landwehr, Romeyn de Hooghe as book illustrator 92. Without the usually included Boerekermis by the same (1708).
AND 1 other: J. BARUETH, Historie van het stadhouderschap der heeren princen van Orange (Dordr., 1765, 5 (of 6) fold. engr. portraits by G. SIBELIUS, contemp. gilt hcalf w. mor. letterpiece).
- Title browned, sl. frayed along edges and waterstained in lower margin; 3 contemp. corrections in pen and ink; contents sl. yellowed.
= Van Alphen 1069.
BOUND WITH: Idem. Geboorte- en Vredezang. Ibid., idem, (1748), 32p., 2 (stipple-)engr. half-p. ills. by J. VERBRUGGEN (very rare).
- Spine-ends trifle rubbed. = Rare.
- Occas. sl. foxed. = Rare.
= Cohen/ de Ricci 505f ("Très jolie illustrations").
- Needs rebinding: bookblock broken; covers (w. title-p. and first 2 lvs.) loose; first lvs. w. traces of sellotape in inner margin; sl. foxed and yellowed. Covers worn/ dam. Sold w.a.f.
= Baudrier VIII, p.105. This ed. not in Adams. Rare.
- Contemp. owner's entry on title ("in usum F.F. Wessobrunnensium") and a bookplate on upper pastedown by a member of the same family; first few lvs. sl. waterstained and w. sm. wormhole in lower part.
= First published in Milan under the title De Romanis potestatibus, sacerdotiis et magistratibus (1477). Panzer VI, 256; Graesse II, 257; not in Adams. Very rare.
BOUND WITH: (Luscinius, O.) (=O. Nachtgall). Graece et Latine. Moralia quaedam Instituta, ex varijs authoribus. Augsburg, Simpertum Ruff, 1523, (164) lvs., num. woodcut columns along left of text, large woodcut ill. of Hercules on final leaf.
- Small unobtrusive waterstain in upper outer corner throughout.
= Written by the Alsatian humanist Ottmar Nachtgall (Strasbourg 1487-Freiburg 1537), who studied Greek, Latin, canon law and music in Paris, Louvain, Padua and Vienna. After travelling in Greece and Asia Minor he returned to Strasbourg where he became associated with Wimppheling and S. Brandt, mingled in literary circles and was appointed organist at the church of St. Thomas. In 1523 he went to Augsburg and there became a teacher of Greek at the monastery of St. Ulrich. Although a zealous humanist and an opponent of scholasticism, Luscinius did not become a supporter of the reformation. Brunet III, p.1882; Graesse IV, p.599. Extremely rare. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXXXVI.
- Lacks 37 lvs.: I-XVI (incl. title), XXI-XXIV, XXIX-XXXII and XIX-CXX; first leaf sl. dustsoiled; bookblock sl. trimmed.
= Adams F1156; BM Italian, p.283; Cicognara 2851; Mortimer 203. Contains short biographies of Roman emperors, accompanied by their portraits on coins and medallions, based on the collection of the printer Mazzochi.
- Title-p. dam. (with loss in all four corners and blank margins) and doubled; one leaf dam. (loss of text); final leaf dam. and doubled (no loss of text); occas. ink smudges and fingersoiling in text; occas. sl. dampstained in blank margin; sm. diminishing sharp cut (1 cm.) in backcover and final 70 leaves. Binding dam.
= Complete copy, with num. contemporary annots. in pen (especially on the first 75 leaves and the final 30 leaves). Adams P1554; Schweiger p.785. Reprint of the ed. Paris, 1511, edited by Nicolas Maillard. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXXXVI.
- Three contemp. illegible owner's entries on title; waterstained in upper part throughout; bookplate on verso frontcover; without pastedowns.
= First edition of the brief world chronicle compiled by the Bernese humanist and historian, Valerius Anshelm Ryd. Illustrated with a large number of woodcuts, of which several are by the Master of I.K. (today identified as Jacob Kallenberg). The larger woodcut showing the Nativity is monogrammed "CHvF", probably Claus Hagenbach. Adams R984; Graesse IV, p.198; Brunet IV, p.1474. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXXXVII.
BOUND WITH: Regino Prumiensis. Annales, non tam de Augustorum vitis, quam aliorum Germanorum gestis et docte et compendiose dissrentes, ante sexingentos fere annos editi. Ed. S. von Rotenhan. Mainz, J. Schöffer, 1521, 12,58,(2) lvs., woodcut title border, large woodcut portrait and large woodcut coat of arms, both of Sebastian von Rotenhan.
= First edition of the medieval chronicle of Regino, Abbot of Prüm. It originally ended in 906 but was continued until 967 by a Trier monk, probably Adalbert von Magdeburg. The editor, humanist, cartographer and jurist Sebastian von Rotenhan dedicated his edition to Emperor Charles V. Adams R276; Graesse VI, p.64; Brunet IV, p.1182.