- Partly sl. browned. Ties broken.
= Interesting collection of treaties (relating to trade/ commerce and peace agreements) between the Netherlands and other leading European powers between 1576 and 1701, i.a. the Kings of Spain, Portugal, France, Denmark, Sweden, United Kingdom, the Archdukes of Austria, the Commonwealth of England, the Government of Algiers and the Sultan of Morocco. Most of the treaties are in Latin and Dutch (translation), some with translations in French (10x) and Portuguese (1x). Contains one more treaty than mentioned in the general index ("Tractaet, Noopende de Tollen in den Orisont en Noorwegen", 1701).
- Calf for the larger part worn off and dam. = Rare.
AND a mediocre copy of S. VAN LEEUWEN, Het Rooms-Hollands-Regt (...) (Amst., 1732, 10th ed., contemp. vellum).
- Later owner's entry on title-p. Good copy. = All published. Roberts p.285.
- Upper quarter of backcover and upper part of spine inkstained; frontcover soiled. Otherwise fine.
= Cf. Dekkers p.170 (not listing this edition). Rare. One copy of this ed. in STCN.
- Sl. yellowed; 18th cent. owner's entries on title in pen and ink by "R" and "J.P. van Dinghen". Spine-ends sl. dam; frontcover stained.
- Pagination skips p.281-288, but no text lacking. Vellum soiled/ stained. = Dekkers p.182, 2.
- Occas. contemp. underlining and annots. in blank margins; contemp. owner's entry on first free endpaper; vaguely waterst. in blank margins at the end. Frontcover w. small stain. Good copy.
= Ad 1: Dekkers p.186-187, 3. Ad 2: Dekkers p.186, 2; Pitlo p.56-61. The first edition was published in 1650. "Onder de titel 'Practyk Notariael' verscheen (...) een werk, dat aangemerkt kan worden als een der beste notarisboeken, die voor het zeventiende- en achttiende-eeuwse notariaat werden geschreven. (...) en steekt ook uit boven de meeste notarisboeken uit de achttiende eeuw (...)" (Pitlo p.39).
- Occas. sl. soiled/ waterst.; contemp. annot. on pastedowns. Vellum sl. soiled.
= Dekkers, p.198 (not mentioning this edition).
- Bookplate on upper pastedown. Spine-ends sl. dam.; sl. rubbed along extremities. Good/ fine copy.
= The rare first Dutch edition, not traced in the reference works (cf. Waller 1031, for the ed. Amst., 1741).
= Arpots 77.
Idem. Collection of 8 works in 2 vols., bound unif. w. the above, i.a. 't Bataafsch Atheene; in drie Herders-kouten (Leyden, 1766, 2nd enl. ed., 3 parts in 1 vol., engr. title-vignette. Arpots 77); Het Rhynlandsch wedspel, in verscheide landgezangen. Ter geleegenheid van de plegtige Intreede van (...) Willem den Vyfden (ibid., 1766, 1st ed., engr. title-vignette. Arpots 24) and Het verheerlijkt Leyden, bij het tweede eeuwgetijde van deszelfs heuchlijk ontzet, in den Jaare 1574 (...) (ibid., 1774, 2 parts in 1 vol., engr. title-p., 1 dedic. page, 3 portraits by J. HOUBRAKEN. Arpots 215). - AND 1 other in 4 vols. by G.W. RABENER.
- Partly loose(ning). Most bindings (sl.) worn/ partly dam. Not collated, sold w.a.f.
= Comprises: 1835: part 1-4; 1836: part 1, 2 and 4: 1837: part 1 and 4; 1838: part 4; 1839: part 1, 3 and 4; 1840: part 1-4; 1842: part 1, 3 and 4: 1843: part 1 and 2.
- Year 1842 lacks 1 plate; year 1850/ 4 lacks a few text leaves and 3 or 4 plates. Bindings shabby.
AND 1 other (±1849, similarly illustrated w. 8 (lithogr.) plates, contemp. hcl. Lacks title-p.; mediocre binding).
- Libr. stamps on first free endpaper and title-p. of each vol. Backstrips w. some sm. cracks. Otherwise a fine set.
- Binding sl. soiled.
= First Dutch edition. Gregorio Leti (1630-1701) was an Italian historian and satirist from Milan, who wrote a number of anti-Catholic works. Scheepers I, 527.
Drexel, H. De aeternitate considerationes coram sermo utriusque Bavariae Duce. Cologne, C. ab Egmondt, 1634, 221,(3)p., engr. title and 9 full-p. ills., contemp. vellum, 12mo.
- All slips on verso ofleaf A2 are missing; lvs. A1-A4 frayed along edges. Binding dam. at spine-ends.
= From the collection of Jan Borms w. his owners stamp on lower pastedown. Popular aide-mémoire for the confessional. Techically a very curious book. It is printed and pre-cut by the bookbinder in such a way that the little slips of paper with the "individual sin" can easily be torn out, or folded over. All editions are rare.
- Contents very fine, the only small blemish: the map of the Peloponnesus creased and sl. split at intersection of folds. Both covers w. old stain near spine; upper joint, corners and foot of spine sl. worn/ rubbed. Otherwise a fine copy.
= Tiele 303; Navari 452: "his books on the Morea and Archipelago are compiled from other sources and are of special interest for their plates"; Blackmer sale 89. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXXXV.
- Sl. thumbed and soiled.
= Tiele 1014; Cat. NHSM p.54f. Not in Blackmer etc. Rare account of the voyage of Jan Somer to the Levant and back to Middelburg in the years 1590-1592. The plates depict i.a. a marriage at sea in Venice, the colossus at Rhodes and the pyramids in Egypt. The first edition was published in Amsterdam, 1649.
- One leaf loosening, contemp. annots. on penultimate blank; occas. (sl.) browned/ foxed. Good copy.
= Very rare, not in the usual bibliographies. Cf. Buisman 1335.
- Title-page, some lvs. and views/ plans loose; plans/ views occas. w. tear; sm. annot. on lower pastedown; margins of lvs. occas. thumbed. Scratches on both covers; rubbed along extremities; spine w. cracks and spine-ends worn.
= Nijhoff/ Van Hattum 76 and at length: P. Hoftijzer, Pieter van der Aa (1659-1733), Leids drukker en boekverkoper (Hilversum, 1999) and P.J. Smith, Wandelen in de Délices de Leide (1712), De zeventiende eeuw 22 (Hilversum, 2006). Richly illustrated chorography, the finely executed views showing the siege of Leyden, churches, the university, etc.