- Plates occas. foxed/ waterst. = Nissen, ZBI 4597.
- Lacks vol. 7 of Oiseaux (part 43, 18 plates) and another ±13 plates. Most vols. hinges (sl.) weak (occas. lvs. loose); lvs. unopened; occas. sl. foxed/ (water)stained; a few vols. partly sl. wormholed; a few lvs. dam. (1x plate; 1x w. loss of text); some scattered modern annots./ doodles. Bindings worn; backstrips dam. (2x lacking); a few covers loose (but holding on cords). Nevertheless a good, untrimmed set.
= Nissen, ZBI 682. A complete set consists of 127 vols. containing 1100 plates. This lot comprises 11 almost complete sets (when complete containing ±780 plates): 1. Théorie de la Terre (3 vols.,1798/9); 2. Époques de la Nature (1 vol., 1798/9); 3. (Introduction à l'histoire des) Minéraux (12 vols., 1798-1800); 4. Singes (2 vols., 1800/1); 5. Oiseaux (27 (of 28) vols., 1800-1802); 6. Poissons (13 vols., 1802-1804); 7. Cétacées (1 vol., 1804); 8. Mollusques (6 vols., 1802-1805); 9. Crustacés et insectes (14 vols., 1802-1805); 10. Plantes (18 vols., 1802-1806); 11. Tables analytiques et raisonnées des matières et des auteurs (3 vols., 1808).
- Occas. (sl.) foxed. Orig. gilt backstrips partially mounted on spines.
= I. Zoogdieren; II. Vogels; III. Kruipende dieren, visschen, ongewervelde dieren. Nissen, ZBI II p.454; Landwehr, Dutch Books w. Col. Plates 47.
- Usual browning/ foxing (mainly textpages). Joints starting. = Not in Nissen.
- Spine-ends sl. rubbed. Good copy. = Nissen, ZBI 1172.
- Good/ fine copy.
- Formerly foxed/ some creases.
- Lacks (general) engr. title and 10 plates; first leaf heavily soiled and w. large hole; num. plates and textlvs. w. extensive (col.) pencil scratching by a child (the Rhinoceros not affected); waterst. at the beginning; final lvs. lacking. Sold w.a.f.
= Rare Dutch edition of Jonston's popular Historiae naturalis de quadrupedibus. De avibus. De insectis. De piscibus et cetis. De exanguibus aquaticis. De serpentibus (first publ. Frankf. 1650). Nissen, ZBI 2136.
- Occas. sl. foxed. Spine-ends and joints sl. worn/ rubbed. = Nissen, ZBI 2613.
- Backstrips trifle rubbed. = Nissen, ZBI 2612.
- Binding worn.
= Landwehr, Dutch Books w. Col. Plates 154; cf. Nissen, ZBI 3072 (calling for 11 plates) and Zimmer p.480 (both ed. Utr., 1770). Dutch translation by P. Boddaert of Zoologica miscellanea. Comprises: I. De hartebokken; II. Twee uitlandsche vledermuyzen; III. De zeerupsen; IV. De zeeduyzendbeenen en zeepissebedden; V. De Groote Zandkoker, een zoort van Tor, en eene Verhandeling over de Oost-Indische Buidelrat en Miereneter; VI. Het Geslacht der Poulepeintades, de Kuifhoenderen en de Gekuifde Zeepapegaai.
- Occas. sl. foxed/ browned. = Nissen, ZBI 3208.
- Occas. (sl.) foxed/ browned. = Nissen, ZBI 3348.
- Final 2 plates and accomp. text loose; occas. sl. foxed.
= Nissen, ZBI 3686.
AND 1 other by the same: Visschen (2nd edition).
- Joints starting.
= Naturgeschichte der Säugetiere; Naturgeschichte der Vögel; Naturgeschichte der Reptilien, Amphibien, Fische, Insekten, Krebse, Würmer, Weichtiere, Stachelhäuter, Pflanzentiere und Urtiere.
- All vols. sl. waterst. (mostly in blank margins); bookplate on upper pastedown. Extremities sl. worn. Still a good set.
= Nissen, ZBI 3901 and 681 (the latter as part of Buffon's Histoire naturelle, classée par ordres, genres et espèces).
= "St. Nicolaas Geschenk van J. Terpstra aan W.L. Tydeman Leijden 6 december 1826" (manuscript in pen and ink on upper pastedown). Some names and places: A.G. van Vierhouten geb. Ising ("Franeker den 17 Febr. 1826"); L.H. Troost ("Arnhem, den 27 December 1824"; with drawing); L.J. Tijdeman ("Leyden 24 Jan. 1827"; w. watercolour of a flowering branch); J.H. Calckoen ("Leyden 30 December 1826"); W.L. Terpstra geb. Tijdeman ("Rotterdam den 18 Febr. 1827"; with drawing of a ruined castle); J.T.[?] Bodel Nijenhuis ("Leijden 31 März 1826"); E.H.J.L. Speyart van Woerden 2 Lt. ("Amsterdam 18 17/8 38"); A. Tak[?] ("6 August: 1848"; drawing of "La Retraite"); M.(eindert) Tydeman (historian and author) ("oud 83 . jaar, 7 maanden. en 16. dagen. Leiden, 15. Nov., 1824"); A.L. Bisschop ("11 Augustus 1850"; w. drawing) and a carte-de-visite of P.A. DE GENESTET (signed in pencil in lower margin). SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LVI.
- Box in poor condition.
= I.a. drawings by H(enriette?) RONNER (2x), J. van RAVENSWAAY (prob. Jan van Ravenswaay Gzn.) and Herman Tollius Drabbe.
AND 2 others: a Swiss album amicorum (±1850, incl. 8 pencil drawings) and a gilt calf bookshaped cassette or box (8vo).
= A very interesting ledger of an unidentified Amsterdam notable businessman and his family over a period of 34 years. This document gives a careful representation of the financial household at that time, in which real estate, shares in the VOC (for all sorts of international trades) and the Zuid-Zee compagnie, among others, merchandise and interest on loans, bonds and other financial products played a major role. Many names of (important) Amsterdam families are mentioned, among which "Raphael Mendes da Costa", "Isaac Joseph Mendes da Costa", "Jan Gabriel Tegelaar", "David Cohen", "Hillegonda van der Poorten", "Jan Messchert van Vollenhoven" and "Jacob Zwartenhoff". Over the years, payments have been administered for, among other things, a house in the Hartenstraat, a stable in the Bloemstraat and "Een Huis naast mijn woonhuis". In all a very well preserved insight into the annual cash flows of what appears to be a versatile merchant. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LVI.