- All but one sl. soiled in margins; Jesaja cut to the platemark, all others w. wide margins.
= Portraits of Jesaja (4), Jeremias (5), Daniel (8), Hosea (9), Amos (11), Obadja (12), Jonas (13) (w. on verso an engraving of Jonas in the whale), Micha (14), Habbakuk (16), Sophonias (17), Haggai (18). All from the series Icones Prophetarum Veteris Testamenti. Hollstein 4-30.
- Fine impressions with ample margins. Lacks plates 33 and 34. All fingersoiled (a few incl. title worse), for the greater part in blank margins.
= New Hollstein 187ff.
- Fine.
= Cf. Garrison-Morton 398: "Remarkable for its striking mezzotints printed in color". Very rare. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE CXI.
- Lower margin diagonally trimmed short (0-1,5 cm.), without loss of vital aspects of the image; tiny tear in right margin touching the image; nevertheless an attractive print.
= Cf. Garrison-Morton 398: "Remarkable for its striking mezzotints printed in color". Very rare. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE CXII.
- Partly vaguely foxed; some vague handling creases.
= Armelaut/ Bocher 34, the 2nd state (of 5), before the title.
- Vertical closed tear in centre of caption and ±5 cm. into the image; sm. restorations on verso in upper corners; one sm. wormhole; agetoned w. a few brown specks.
= Very rare. Hollstein 7, 1st state. Part of a series of 4 prints showing Allegories on the medical profession. Partly copied (in reverse) after the series on the same subject by the atelier of Hendrick Goltzius. SEE ILLUSTRATI
- Cut on the platemark; sl. agetoned; a few specks and spots in the margins.
= New Hollstein (de Gheyn), 64-67; New Hollstein (Goltzius) 4456-459. All four with the doublure stamp of the print cabinet of University of Leyden (Lugt 700b) on verso. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE CXIII.
- Fine impression cut just outside/ on the borderline. Small repaired hole above the right eye; old marginal restorations; old flattened middle-fold; some vague handling creases; sl. foxed/ duststained. Verso with unidentified collector's mark.
= New Hollstein 170, the second state (of 2); Hollstein 298. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXXXIII.
- Sl. agetoned; trimmed on the platemark. = New Hollstein 186, 1st state of 3.
- Sm. section (±2,5 cm.) of margin cut short, just touching the image; vague sm. stain in margin; tipped onto mount, attached thin cellulose paper sl. yellowed and sl. shining through.
= Hollstein 141, 2nd state of 3. With the collector's marks of Julius Hoffmann (1840-1913) (Lugt 1264), Constant Moyaux (1835-1911) (Lugt 1829a) and Karl Eduard von Liphart (1808-1891) (Lugt 1687). SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE CXIII.
- Sl. agetoned; cut ±1 cm outside the platemark; sl. grey impression; sm. repair in lower left blank margin.
= New Hollstein 184, 1st state of 3.
= New Hollstein 246, 2nd state (of 2), with the fault at the top.
- Sl. agetoned; trimmed ±0,5 cm. outside the platemark; manuscript annot. or collector's mark in pen and brown ink in upper left corner.
= New Hollstein 183, 2nd state of 2.
- Cut just outside the borderline, lower margin up to the caption; a few closed tears and holes; somewhat soiled and agetoned.
= From the series Christ, the twelve apostles and St Paul with the Creed (14 engravings).
- Trimmed on/ just within the borderline; vague brown spot in upper part.
= Filedt Kok 24; New Hollstein 104, only state: "Probably impression of a silver medallion."
= Vincent Jacobsz. Coster, alias Sente Peylder, born about 1553, was an official city wine gauger (for collecting excise on wine). New Hollstein 242.
- Partly waterst. in lower blank margin (not affecting image); title duststoiled and reattached; sl. fingersoiled; a few prints trifle yellowed and foxed; 2 heraldic bookpates on upper pastedown; binding w. minor imperfections.
= Hollstein 340b and 341-457; cf. Cockle 79 (English ed., 1607); cf. Lipperheide Qb18 (Dutch ed. 1607); Jähns p.1005ff. The famous manual on handling muskets and pikes by Jacob de Gheyn (1565-1629). For the complex history of publication of the various (Dutch, German, English, French and Danish) editions in the years 1607-1608, see catalogue Le héraut du dix-septième siècle. Dessins et gravures de Jacques de Gheyn II et III, no.37 (Paris, Institut Néerlandais, 1985, with literature).
- Trimmed on/ just inside the bordeline. Hollstein 86 yellowed. = New Hollstein 86, 88, 89, 95 and 99, all the first state (of 2); Hollstein Dolendo 30ff.
- Agetoned; sl. soiled; w. paper flaw.
= New Hollstein 176 copy a: "Engravings in same direction, same size and with the same text of the complete set, published by Assuerus Londerseel, before 1595."