- A few leaves carefully remargined and some leaves w. closed tear or other sm. restorations. Foot of spine sl. worn; paper over covers sl. chafed. Good/ fine copy.
= Poortman II, 31c.
- Lacks 1 bird's eye view ("Temple de Jerusalem" present) and 2 plates; occas. sl. foxed. Spine-ends dam.; corners (sl.) worn.
= On this printbible of Basnage and Alewyn, which went through 10 editions between 1705 and 1721, in extenso Poortman II, p.109-120. Landwehr, R. de H. as book ill. 100; Hollstein IX, 2; Van Eeghen/ Van der Kellen 40; Klaversma/ Hannema 130. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXXVIII.
- Mediocre copy: lacks at least 19 leaves; Old Testament cut short in top margin, partly with loss of running title; New Testament cut sl. short in top margin (affecting running title); all three engr. titles trimmed to the border/ cut short in lower or upper margin; num. leaves (incl. plates) of Old Testament dam./ frayed in margins. Sold w.a.f.
= Poortman II, 30, 1. Poortman calls for 233 plates in the first edition. The first part of the Old Testament does not have an engr. title-page.
- Binding w. minor imperfections. A fine copy.
= Rare edition of this extremely popular hieroglyphic children's bible. BNK 953.
- Thirteen lvs. torn/ dam., partly affecting text/ one plate; first frontisp. doubled; occas. sl. soiled/ (damp)stained, mostly in blank margins. Upper joint splitting; top of spine chipped.
= The second edition of the so-called "Kleine bijbel van Mortier" (first published in 1703). Klaversma/ Hannema 185 and 192; cf. Van Eeghen/ Van der Kellen 351; Poortman p.35ff.
- Lacks first quire and final 10(?) pages. Frequently mispaginated; a few leaves dam. (lacking words/ phrases; 1x lacking approx. half of text). Sold w.a.f.
= Poortman II p.92-97; Hollstein 52, 39 and 40. The first edition, also containing "De Wercken der Apostelen Met seer schoone uyt-beeldingen, van twee d'alderbeste Nederlandtsche Schilders, seer konstelijck af-gemaeckt: Namentlijck, Martinus Heemskerckius Van Haerlem, diese begonnen heeft; ende Ioannes Stradanus Van Brugge, diese voleyndt heeft", "'t Bosch der Eremyten ende Eremitinnen" and "Goddelycke Wenschen (...)", the last work the Dutch translation of H.Hugo's Pia Desideria.
- Occas. sl. yellowed/ sl. foxed. A fine set.
= Poortman II, p.139-145. Sumptuous printbible, the so-called "Prent-bijbel van Pieter de Hondt". SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXXIX.
- Rebacked w. green mor.; board edges sl. worn.
= Study of words of i.a. Hebrew and Aramaic origin in the New Testament. From the collection of Henry Drury, headmaster of Harrow (England), classical scholar and friend of Lord Byron (annotation on the first free endpaper: "Coll. perf. H. Drury. Harroviae 1820. C.14.2."; this copy appears in his auction catalogue, 1827, no. 2897). Willems 1097; Rahir 1088.
- Both pastedowns detached; later annots. in pen and ink on prelim. lvs.; owner's stamp on title-p.; occas. sl. stained; final free endpaper dam. Binding sl. stained; one corner sl. worn.
= Compilation of tales that were to remain unpublished, i.a. the Tale of Dorat, Clémence d'Argèles, Azef, The errors of Florine and The Oracle of Graces.
- One quire very faint waterstain in upper margin. Vellum on frontcover sl. foxed; backstrip sl. fingersoiled. Nevertheless a fine copy in a very elegant binding.
= Schweiger p.599: "Beste Ausgabe der c. not. var. Im Auslande gesucht."
- Blank prelim. leaf and title w. stamp "Bibliotheek Rembrandt". Binding dam. at corners and boardedges; foot of spine chipped; upper joint worn.
= Storm van Leeuwen IIA, p.123ff.
- Without pages 673-674 (mispagination); occas. trifle foxed. Spine-ends sl. rubbed.
= Rahir 630; Willems 634 (listing a number of copies bound by Trautz-Bauzonnet): "Edition admirablement executée dont les exemplaires grands de marge et bien conservé se paient fort cher". P. de Commines (1447-1511), chronicler for Philip the Good and Charles the Bold, later confidant of Louis XI.
- New endpapers and ties; verso of spine professionally strengthened w. calf. Spine sl. rubbed. Nevertheless very fine.
= SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXXX.
- Corners bumped; spine-ends worn.
= Leaves mostly w. "Pro Patria" watermark. Bookplate of John Landwehr on verso first free endpaper.
- From the library of the Chateau de Marchais (bookplate on upper pastedown). Corners showing; upper joint starting at foot of spine; foot of spine sl. chipped; binding rubbed/ sl. worn.
- Silver clasp and catches heavily oxidized.
18th century full calf, w. unidentified gilt coat of arms on both covers, richly gilt spine, gilt boardedges, marbled endpapers, sm. 4to. - ON: SAMMLUNG DER NEUESTEN STAATS-SCHRIFFTEN ZUM BEHUF DER HISTORIE DES JETZIGEN KRIEGES IN TEUTSCHLAND (Frankfurt/ Leipsic, 1756).
- Bookplate of the Earl North of Guilford on upper pastedown and bookplate of W.C. Baert de Waarde; sl. browned. Binding worn along extremities.
- A few tiny imperfections; covers trilfe rubbed at extremities. Otherwise very fine.
= A very fine example of a richly decorated Ottoman binding. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXXX.
- Plates (sl.) foxed, mostly in blank margins; textp. browned; partly sl. waterst. in upper blank margin. Binding sl. worn at extremities.
= From the library of Élisa Napoléone Baciocchi Levoy (1806-1869), daughter of Élisa Bonaparte (who was sister to Napoleon I and princess of Piombino and Lucca).