- From the library of J.F. Buisman w. his owner's entry on first free endpaper. Lacks 1 plate; upper hinge of 1st vol. broken; letterpress title to 2nd vol. lacks upper corner w. loss of text.
= Buisman 617; Scheepers I, 520.
- Lacks frontisp.; hinges broken. Calf worn. = Bodemann 110.8.
- Owner's stamp and entry on title-p. Upper joint broken, but holding on cords, backstrip loosenin.
- Both vols. w. owner's ticket on title-p.; partly yellowed. Fine copy in attractive bindings.
= Haitsma Mulier/ Van der Lem 312b; Dekkers p.103.
- Occas. trifle waterstained; bird's eye view of Harderwijk loose.
= Contains fine bird's eye views of Nijmegen, Zutphen, Arnhem and Harderwijk. Gouda Quint p.8; De Buck 1476; Nijhoff/ Van Hattum 254; Wittop Koning no.49 and p.65-67 (in extenso on the interesting preserved printing history of this book) and p.78 on Pontanus, "Het grootste licht, dat ooit te Harderwijk geschenen heeft".
- General map strengthened on verso w. paper tape; engr. title and letterpress title loose. Vellum sl. soiled.
= The second edition (first ed. 1653) of the first complete Dutch topographical and historical history of Gelderland, by Arend van Slichtenhorst (±1615-1657), who studied at Leiden and became a lawyer in his native city Arnhem. As acknowledged on the title, the work was based upon, and partly a translation of, Pontanus' Latin Historiae Gelricae, published in 1639, but Slichtenhorst thoroughly revised, corrected and much enlarged the Latin original. A classic in its field. Nijhoff/ Van Hattum 281.
- Title-p. mounted on frontcover, sl. soiled and sl. dam. in lower outer corner; final 2 maps trifle dampstained in blank margins (1x touching the text).
= Gouda Quint p.440f.
- Contents occas. sl. foxed/ soiled. Extremities sl. worn; 2 vols. joints splitting.
= The 3rd Dutch edition. Landwehr F107; Waller 589; Bodemann II, 158.
- Fine copy. = Dekkers p.2; Haitsma Mulier/ Van der Lem 9b.
- Several plates loose(ning). Binding rubbed.
= Nice, detailed work, focusing on all possible aspects of the coat of arms: shield, coronet, mantling, etc.
- Contents first vol. occas. sl. browned; both vols. bookplate on upper pastedown.
= Haitsma Mulier/ Van der Lem 315. First Dutch translation.
- Binding trifle rubbed. A good/ fine copy. = Brunet III, p.1628; Graesse IV, p.488.
- Owner's stamp and sm. bookplate on verso of first free endpaper; owner's stamp on verso of final free endpaper. Backstrip dam.
- Sl. yellowed/ browned; a few annots. Upper joint splitting. Good copy.
- Trifle waterstained in outer blank margin. Vellum sl. soiled. = Rare.
BOUND WITH: David, J. Schild-wacht tot seker waerschouwinghe Teghen de valsche Waersegghers/ Tooveraers/ ende derghelijcke ongoddelijckheyt. 's Hertogenbosch, J.J. Scheffer, 1619, (6),56,(1)p., woodcut title-vignette. - AND BOUND WITH 6 other small publications.
- Owner's stamp on first free endpaper; title-p. cut trifle short. Upper outer corner of backcover sl. stained. Otherwise fine.
- Library stamp and bookplate on verso frontwr.; a few quires loose.
= Batavia Typographia 4692; Tiele 435; Knuttel 1078: "Belangrijke verzameling van stukken over den Westphaalschen krijg. (...) De titel is versierd met eene afbeelding der Spaansche wreedheid in een spiegel vertoond, waarnaar mannen uit allerlei natien met afschrik wijzen (...)." For the title-vignette see: Schmidt, Innocence Abroad: The Dutch Imagination and the New World, 1570-1670, p.106f. From the library of Bob Luza w. his bookplate on verso frontwrapper.
- Fine copy.
- Covers, bookblock and title-p. loose; most plates w. sl. offsetting on opposite textp.; frontisp. plate bound after Préface du traducteur; 4 textlvs. erroneously bound; owner's entry and bookplate on upper pastedown.
= First French edition of this important collection of early works on glassmaking. Poggendorff I, p.1130 and II, p.269; Duveen p.427; Ferguson, Bibl. Chemica II, p.135; Partington II, p.364; Ferguson, Books of Secrets no.672 and vol. III, p.40f and VI, p.4f: "This is a bulky quarto, sumptuously printed, with handsome engravings of furnaces and apparatus, and it is undoubtedly the most complete of all the editions which I have seen. It contains not only the treatise of Neri, with the prefaces and notes of Merrett and of Kunckel (...), but also some treatises and extracts from other works bearing upon the manufacture of glass, enamel and porcelain, and, besides, the tracts on the controversy about the part gold takes in making ruby glass, written by Orschal, Balduin and Kunckel. It forms, therefore, a kind of cyclopaedia of the older writings on glass-making."