- Four fold. portraits w. (sm.) tear in inner margin; all vols. w. owner's stamp on first/ second blank (vol.3 also on title-p.); partly waterst. (mostly in blank margins, occas. affecting plates); some plates w. sl. offsetting; pastedowns detached; occas. sl. browned/ foxed.
- Bookplate on upper pastedown; frontisp. trimmed to image. Spine-ends and joints sl. worn.
= With the often lacking plate of the hanging of the De Witt brothers. Landwehr, Romeyn de Hooghe as bookillustrator 47; Muller 808.
AND 1 odd vol.
- Lacks all plates and portraits; last leaf w. tear; otherwise a clean copy w. wide margins.. Upper joint split; lower joint split at top; lower boardedge backcover dam..
= Leendertz 126; Haitsma Mulier/ Van der Lem 235 b and c.
- View of Bergen op Zoom loose and probably taken from another copy; plates occas. sl. foxed in margins; title-pages sl. yellowed and foxed; one leaf in vol. I lacks part of top blank margin (p.159/160). Paper over covers of both vols. rubbed/ worn; corners and joints trifle rubbed.
= Abbey, Travel 184; Cox I, p.159; Lipperheide Gb35. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XCIV.
- Not collated but apparently complete. Ex-library copies: all vols. foot of spine plasticized w. shelf ticket. Contents fine. Sold w.a.f.
- Lacks the 6 maps; some vols. sl. waterst. Backstrips sl. worn. Not collated, sold w.a.f.
- Vol.13 lacks one plate. First vol. upper joint starting; 5 vols. top of spine chipped. Very good set.
= Haitsma Mulier/ Van der Lem 274e. According to Van Doorninck/ De Kempenaer the author may also be Irhoven van Dam. The number of plates differs from copy to copy (this set w. an unusually high number).
- Some lvs. trifle foxed. Extremities of binding rubbed; covers clumsily remarbled.
= Famous mystification, ascribed to Regnerus de Graaf, engraver from Haarlem.
- Rebacked w. modern cloth; lacks paper over covers. Contents fine.
= With 4 loosely inserted engravings, probably all taken from Van Loon's Beschryving der Nederlandsche Histori penningen (incl. the engr. portrait of Van Loon by Jacobus Houbraken after Frans van Mieris. Famous mystification, ascribed to Regnerus de Graaf, engraver from Haarlem.
- Upper hinge broken but holding on cords; sm. stamp on verso first free endpaper.
= Provenance: Delprat-Veth (bookplate on first free endpaper). Wildenberg 1051; Haitsma Mulier/ Van der Lem 126a (one of four variants with different collation and w. engr. title).
BOUND WITH: (Idem). Interest van Holland, ofte gronden van Hollands-Welvaren. Aangewezen door V.D.H. Amst., J.C. vander Gracht, 1662, (16),267,(5)p.
= Schumpeter p.368; Knuttel 8652; Wildenberg 1042; Knuttel, Verboden boeken 4; Palgrave I, 447; Van de Klashorst etc. 232: "The author of this famous treatise argues that the prosperity of Holland depends on religious tolerance, free trade and manufacture, lower taxes and duties, and in the field of foreign policy, the avoidance of war (especially at sea) and of territorial expansion. He urges the maintenance of the republican form of government and particularly warns against the appointment of a captain-general. Some chapters are attributed to John de Witt."
- Contents fine. = Important source on Dutch history. Haitsma Mulier/ Van der Lem 291e.
- Title-p. to the 2nd part sl. yellowed. Binding sl. worn; upper joint splitting at top of spine. Internally fine.
= Important source on Dutch history. Haitsma Mulier/ Van der Lem 291e.
- Occas. trifle foxed; two quires sl. waterstained in upper outer blank corner. Lacks paper over covers; corner rubbed/ sl. worn; letterpiece on backstrip partly worn off.
= Tiele 650. Rare.
AND 1 other: J. VAN HEEMSKERK, Batavische Arcadia (...) (Amst., 1729, 7 fold. engr./ etched plates (incl. frontisp. and a bird's eye plan of Batavia), contemp. calf. Lacks 2 textleaves; upper blank margin of bookblock partly nibbled off by mice).
- Large fold. plate w. false folds and some browning/ staining along two folds; outer margins of plates partly waterstained.
= French translation of Het Vereenigd Nederland, published by Allart in the same year (for that publication see: Paasman p.100; BNK 1139; Caljé-Van Gulik 576-577).
= Haitsma Mulier/ Van der Lem 328a; Dekkers p.112, 10; Camus 871; De Buck 7114; Van Heynsbergen p.94f.
Idem. De jure gladii tractatus et de toparchis qui exercent id in diocesi Ultrajectina. Leyden, J. Kellenaar, 1689, (16),704,(8)p., engr. title-vignette showing Charles V, contemp. calf w. gilt spine and mor. letterpiece, 4to.
- Spine-ends chipped; rubbed along extremities. = Dekkers p.112, 11; De Buck 6891.
- As often without the 20 heraldic plates; hinges (sl.) weak.
= Large paper copy. Haitsma Mulier/ Van der Lem 328e; De Buck 1393. Extensive and important collection of medieval and later chronicles, letters, travel journals, mainly in Dutch, otherwise in Latin.
- First 12 lvs. (incl. engr. title, portrait and map) outer margin restored/ strengthened (occas. affecting image/ text); (sl.) mouldstained in upper outer corner throughout; partly waterst. in lower part. Binding worn/ dam. along extremities.
= Simoni M87. French translation of the 1614 Dutch edition. "Wat voor de godsdienst de Statenbijbel, voor de letteren Cats was, bleef een eeuw lang Van Meteren voor onze geschiedenis" (Brummel).
- Occas. yellowed/ sl. browned; all vols. w. sm. stamp on first free endpaper. All vols. w. sm. ticket at foot of spine and backstrips partly plasticized.
= Dekkers p.118, 2 and 3; Haitsma Mulier/ Van der Lem 338f and h.
- Fine copy.