82 3444 Middle East Roberts D 
82 3444 Middle East Roberts D 
82 3444 Middle East Roberts D 
82 3444 Middle East Roberts D 
- Vol. 2 (of 3) only; trifle yellowed/ age-toned; some foxing (sl. worse at the beginning and end).
= Abbey, Travel 385; Blackmer 1432; Ibrahim-Hilmy II, p.176; cf. Gay 25; Lipperheide Ma27; Europe and the Arab World 66. Originally issued in 20 separate parts (exluding the map), The Holy Land was initially intended to be published together with Roberts' Egypt and Nubia, but this was not carried out and the works were published separately, though often found together as one work in 6 parts. Contains spectacular views of i.a. Mount Sinai, Suez, Baalbec and Jaffa. "David Roberts remains the best known British artist to have drawn views of the Near East in the nineteenth century." (...) From 1842 onwards Roberts' views of the Near East, lithographed by the Belgian Louis Haghe, began to appear in a series of editions with historical and descriptive texts by the Irish divine George Croly and the English inventor, painter and author William Brockedon." (Europe and the Arab World). SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XCI.
82/3445 Militaria Comptes présentés en exécution de la loi du 10 Mars 1818 sur le recrutement de l'armée 
82 3446 Militaria Grimoard P H Comte de and Gugy de 
82 3446 Militaria Grimoard P H Comte de and Gugy de 
- Fine copy.
= From the library of A.F.H. von Seckendorff, with his small armorial bookplate on upper pastedown. Quérard, La France Littéraire III, p.481, listing the original French edition, published in 1782: "La partie dogmatique de cet ouvrage est du comte de Grimoard, et la partie systématique, de m. de Gugy, alors officier dans les gardes-suisses, et depuis lieutenant-colonel du régiment suisse de Sonnenberg." Very rare.
82 3447 Militaria Lange P de 
- Occas. sl. soiled; 2 portraits w. tear; old annot. on verso first free endpaper. Binding sl. worn.
= Cat. NHSM p.345; Haitsma Mulier/ Van der Lem 287d.
AND 1 other.
82 3448 Militaria Lefebvre S 
82 3448 Militaria Lefebvre S 
- Partly sl. yellowed; both vols. bookplate on upper pastedown. Spines trifle rubbed and w. paper ticket at top.
= First edition of the posthumously published complete works of Simon Lefebvre (1712-1770), military engineer in the Prussian army. Contains i.a. L'art d'attaquer et défendre les places and Essai sur les mines.
82 3449 Militaria Lipsius J 
- Yellowed/ browned almost throughout; partly waterstained in lower right corner (final few leaves in lower half) (affecting text); crossed out owner's entry on first free endpaper. Outer margin of frontcover dam. at lower end; lower margin of backcover and foot of spine chipped/ sl. dam.; vellum sl. creased and stained.
= Bibl. Belg. III, L37. Deals with the organization of the army, armament, battle-array and troop movement. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XCI.
82 3450 Militaria Quincy C L de 
82 3450 Militaria Quincy C L de 
82 3450 Militaria Quincy C L de 
- Vol.7 sm. inkstain in outer blank margin of index; occas. sl. yellowed/ trifle foxed, otherwise contents fine. Backstrips in mediocre condition.
= Rare work. Jähns III, p.1851. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XCV.
82 3451 Militaria Ramsay A M de 
82 3451 Militaria Ramsay A M de 
- Partly (sl.) foxed; occas. sl. yellowed; hinges of vol. 1 weak. Binding of vol.1 worn and joints splitting; binding of vol.2 sl. worn.
= Cf. Pohler IV, 914. Nice plans of fortifications i.a. of Arras, Dunkirk, Fribourg, Valenciennes.
82/3452 Militaria Recueil Van de Militaire Ordres Van sijne Hoogheyt den Heere Prince van Orange 
- Fine copy. = Rare.
82/3453 Militaria Reglement en Generaele Ordres voor de Regimenten Infanterie van den Staat 
82/3453 Militaria Reglement en Generaele Ordres voor de Regimenten Infanterie van den Staat 
- A few tables browned/ waterst. and repaired w. tape. Covers rubbed. = Rare.
Naemregister der heeren militairen officieren den Capitein Generaal en Veld-Marschalk (...) van de cavallery, dragonders, infantery, artillery, ingenieurs, mineurs, Enz. over de Troupen der Verenigde Provintien (...) voor den Jaare 1775. Leyden, H. van der Deyster, (1774), 168,(4)p., contemp. limp vellum wallet binding, sm. 8vo.
= Cf. Sloos I, no. 02131, p.240.
AND 3 others, i.a. Reglement en orders voor het garnisoen tot Maestricht (Maastr., 1718, contemp. calf) and Koloniaal Werf-Depôt (Den Bosch, 19th cent., filled in by "Henri Johannes Vander Wart, Soldaat, 1869", contemp. vellum wallet binding).
82 3454 Militaria Sedlitz F von 
82 3454 Militaria Sedlitz F von 
- Bookplate on upper pastedown; sl. yellowed; engr. title stuck to title-p. along left margin, w. minimal loss of text on the latter. Binding chafed and rubbed; spine-ends sl. dam. and w. remnants of tickets.
= German translation of Busschietereij konst (Amst., 1662). The author was a Silezian nobleman in Danish service. Rare.
82 3455 Milton J 
- A few lvs. loosening. Binding sl. worn; top of spine dam.
- Occas. lvs. dogeared. Poor binding, backstrip loose.
= Rare miniature law book containing the Code Napoléon.
82 3457 Montesquieu C L Secondat de 
- Foot of spine chipped; binding sl. rubbed along extremities. Good/ fine copy.
= Tchemerzine, IV, p. 924; Cohen/ De Ricci 725 (attributing the illustration to Sève).
82 3458 Montesquieu C L Secondat de 
- Most vols. spine-end(s) sl. worn/ dam.; 3 letterpieces chipped.
= Comprises L'Esprit de Loix (4 vols.); Les Lettres Persanes; Les Considérations sur les Causes de la Grandeur des Romains, et de leur Décadence, auxquelles on a joint Un Dialogue de Sylla et d'Eucrate; Le Temple de Gnide et Les Lettres Familières.
82 3459 More Th 
82 3459 More Th 
- Lacks first free endpaper. Good copy.
= Very rare. First ed. of Van Hoogstraten's translation (the first Dutch ed. of Utopia was publ. Antw., 1553). Gibson 42; Smith 28; Buisman 1665; Waller 1237; Muller 110.
82 3460 Moreri L 
82 3460 Moreri L 
- Frontisp. w. tear in lower inner margin, affecting image; all vols. occas. (sl.) foxed/ browned; most vols. upper hinge weak; 4 vols. partly sl. waterst. in blank margins. All vols. backstrip worn/ dam. and lacking letterpiece(s); most vols. joints splitting; covers w. a few dam./ chafed spots.
= Zischka p.XXXVII: "1674 Wagte der Franzose Louis Moréri die Herausgabe eines nicht lateinischen, in einer Landessprache abgefaßten Lexikons (...) inhaltlich steht das Buch am Beginn einer neuen Entwicklung und es sollte zum Ausgangpunkt für eine Reihe von Nachfolgern und fremdländischen Bearbeitungen werden. (...) Das Werk ist als historisch-biographisches Lexikon noch heute nicht ohne Wert und bleibt vor allem eine ergiebige Quelle für Histörchen und Lebensgeschichten aus dem 17. Jh., es beruht auf weitläufigen Quellenstudien und schüttet eine krause Fülle von Begebenkeiten vor dem Leser aus, was wohl seine einstige Beliebtheit erklärt".
82 3461 Moubach A 
82 3461 Moubach A 
82 3461 Moubach A 
82 3461 Moubach A 
82 3461 Moubach A 
82 3461 Moubach A 
- Untrimmed set; occas. sl. yellowed; 1 vol. w. a few plates sl. waterst. in upper (blank) margin; contents otherwise fine and clean. Bindings worn; paper over covers chafed/ worn off.
= Rubens p.1103-1215, 1244-1273; Sabin 62600 (praising the engravings). One of the main sources documenting the history of religion, with extensive descriptions of the Jewish and Roman Catholic faith (incl. the activities of the inquisition), Greek-Orthodox and Protestant churches, Quakers, Anabaptism, Freemasonry, Islam, Buddhism, Chinese and Persian religions, American and African creeds etc. The first vol. i.a. dealing with the rites and customs of the Dutch Jewry in the 17th and 18th century, with fine plates.
82 3462 Myle A vander 
- Title-p. sl. browned; 19th cent. annots. on first blank. Vellum trifle dustsoiled.
= Rare praise of the Dutch language, with a humanist philological comparison to Latin, Greek and Persian, by the Zeeland minister A. Van der Myle (1563-1637). With liminary verse by B. Vulcanius, D. Heinsius, P. Scriverius, P. Hondius. "Gelijk ten Kate vele Cimbrisch-Duitsche woorden, die zo in klank als betekenis met Griekse, Latijnse en Gallische woorden overeenkomen, uit het Grieks en Latijn wilde afleiden, zo poogde van der Myl, het Grieks, Latijn enz. van het Oosters te doen afstammen. Zulks deed hij met de grootste scherpzinnigheid en met de uitstekendste blijken van grondige kennis der oude talen; doch hij dwaalde" (Biographisch woordenboek der Nederlanden). Graesse IV, p.639. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXXXIX.
82 3463 Nakatenus W 
82 3463 Nakatenus W 
82 3463 Nakatenus W 
82 3463 Nakatenus W 
- Final index leaf attached to opposite page. Otherwise fine.
= Attractive binding in fine condition.
Marcel, G. Tablettes chronologiques, contenant avec ordre, l'état de l'église en Orient, & en Occident: les Conciles generaux & particuliers: les Autheurs Ecclesiastiques: les Schismes, Heresies & Opinions, qui ont été condamnées. Amst., P. Mortier, 1687, (53)p., engr. frontisp. w. opposite fold. engr. "Explication des notes", contemp. calf w. gilt spine, sm. 8vo.
- Binding sl. rubbed along extremities. Good copy.
AND 1 other: A. VAN DER MATT, Meditatien van de tegenwoordicheyt./ Meditatien in den advent (...) Godts (Antw., 1666, 2 parts in 1 vol., 18th cent. calf, sm. 8vo).