- Final 10 lvs. sl. waterstained in upper blank margin; pastedowns detached; owner's stamp on verso lower pastedown. Upper outer corner of frontcover dam.; vellum stained.
- Lower hinge weak; margins occas. strengthened w. paper tape; occas. sl. soiled/ stained.
= Rare edition, no copies in STCN.
- Lacks 2 vols.; partly wormholed; occas. sl. waterstained in outer margin. One clasp torn almost loose; all bindings duststained; binding of final vol.. worn. Lacks 2 vols. Not collated, sold as a set not subject to return.
= Extensive commentaries on the entire Bible (lacking Job and Psalms, and Acta Apostolorum, Epistola Canonicas, et Apoclypsin) by the Flemish Jesuit Van den Steen, who exegetes Scripture through the four senses. Comprises: I. Commentaria in Pentateuchum Mosis (1714); II. Commentarius in Josue, Judicum, Ruth, IV. Libros Regum et II. Paralipomenon (1725, 2 parts in 1 vol.); III. Commentaria in Salomonis Proverbia/ (...) in Esdram, Nehemiam, Tobiam, Judith, Esther, et Machabaeos (1714/ 1703, 3 parts in 1 vol.); IV. Commentarii in Ecclesiasten/ (...) in Canticum Canticorum/ (...) in librum Sapientiae (1725, 3 parts in 1 vol.); V. Commentaria in Ecclesiasticum (1723); VI. (...) in quatuor Prophetas Maiores (1728); VII. (...) in duodecim Prophetas Minores (1720); VIII. (...) in Jeremiam prophetam, Threnos, et Baruch (1727); IX. Commentaria in omnes Divi Pauli Epistolas (1734); IX. Commentarius in quatuor Evangelia (1660, 2 parts in 1 vol.) Cf. De Backer/ Sommervogel IV, p.1511ff.
- Inkstains on spine, otherwise fine. = Dekkers p.22, 4.
BOUND WITH: Idem. De nagelate werken van mr. Pieter Bort (...). Utr., H. Besseling, 1745, (16),325,(1)p.
- Fine. = Dekkers p. 22, 5.
- Pastedowns loose. Binding sl. worn; top of spine chipped.
= Willems 1323; Rahir 1367. "Édition recherchée à cause de sa belle exécution typographique (...). Ce Corpus juris est la reproduction textuelle sans les notes de l'édition in-folio parue l'année précédente (...)." (Willems).
Grotius, H. De iure belli ac pacis libri tres. Amst., J. Blaeu, 1646, new ed., (24),618,(43)p., woodcut title-vignette, contemp. vellum.
- Pastedowns loose; upper hinge broken. Vellum looseling at turn-ins.
= Ter Meulen/ Diermanse 572; Dekkers p.70.
- Both vols. foxed/ browned and title w. contemp. owner's entry/ libr. stamp; first vol. partly water-/ inkstained; upper margin of title restored w. paper tape (partly affecting text). Both vols. rebound w. use of orig. leather.
- Covers trifle scratched. Otherwise fine. = Jan Justus Enschedé's doctoral thesis in an attractive binding.
- Without the portrait; first free endpaper strengthened along outer margin. Vellum sl. soiled.
= Ter Meulen/ Diermanse 770; Dekkers p.70.
BOUND WITH: W. DE GROOT, Inleyding tot de Practyck, van den Hove van Holland (The Hague, 1656. Sl. stained on fore-edge).
- Stamp of Stedelijk Museum Alkmaar on title; upper hinge weak but holding on cords. Vellum soiled.
- Bookblock shaken. Vellum sl. dustsoiled/ (water)stained; upper joint splitting; portion of backstrip loosening.
ADDED: (Stevens, J.). Histoire abregée d'Espagne. Utr., W. Poolsum, 1703, (16),403,(5)p., contemp. calf.
- Scattered contemp. annots. in margins and occas. underlining. Fine copy. = Dekkers, p.99, 3.
Corpus Juris Civilis. Amst., Sumptibus Societatis (= D. Elzevier a.o.), 1700, new ed., 2 parts in 1 vol., (22),1037,(3); 820,(1)p., engr. frontisp. by G. VAN DER GOUWEN, modern giltlettered hcalf.
- Libr. stamp on first free endpaper; title-p. soiled, frayed and reattached; blank margins occas. sl. soiled/ waterst. Upper joint split; spine-ends chipped.
= Rare collection of the principal civil and canonical legal writings by the Florentine jurist Sebastiano Medici (†1595). Adams M989; EDIT16 28521 (online).
- Vol. 1 and 2 only; occas. waterst. Corners rubbed/ chafed.
- Partly sl. foxed and waterst. Vellum loosening at turn-ins; spine sl. darkened. = Dekkers p.124, 16.
- Occas. sl. foxed. Vellum sl. duststained.
= A reissue(?) of the ed. Amst., H. Gartman etc., 1791, titled Holland onder de regeering van keizer Karel den vijfden (STCN). Parts 2-6 are compiled by Aert's son and successor as Grand Pensionary of Holland, Adriaen van der Goes.
- Sl. browned; pastedowns partly detached. Lacks ties. = Rare.
- Contents foxed/ browned; p.297-298 vol. 1 w. tear; 2 lvs. misbound in vol. 2. Vol. 1 joints starting at foot of spine; vol. 2 lower joint starting at top of spine; bindings sl. soiled/ scratched.
= Dekkers 181,9: "Voet's major work, often reprinted. Voet (1647-1713) was the first at Leyden University to teach both roman and modern law."
- First title w. libr. stamp; (sl.) waterst. in lower blank margin throughout; partly (sl.) wormholed, mostly first/ final few p. and in lower blank margin. Boards sl. wormholed; backstrip sl. worn and w. tickets.
= This edition not in De Backer/ Sommervogel.
- Partly loose(ning); text lvs. sl. foxed/ soiled in inner and upper margin. Backstrip worn off; sm. ticket on frontcover.
= The third edition (first 1779). Arpots 248; coll. Caljé-van Gulik 123; BNK 1456 ("Traditioneel onder de kinderboeken gerekend, maar feitelijk meer een kunstboek voor volwassenen"). On Chr. Chalon: L. Buijnsters-Smets, Christina Chalon, een achttiende-eeuwse tekenares, Antiek 16 (1982), p.471-480.
- Upper free endpapers and title w. (contemp.) owner's entries/ annots.