77 2404 Fénélon F de Salignac de la Mothe 
- Occas. trifle/ sl. yellowed. Rebacked w. use of orig. backstrip.
= Sander 657 (note); Cohen/ De Ricci p.382; Lewine p.181.
77 2405 Fénélon F de Salignac de la Mothe 
= Fine copy, extra illustrated with the 24 plates from the French edition (Leyden/ Amst., 1761). Versnel 642; Scheepers I, 181.
77 2406 Ferus J = J Wild 
- Lacks pastedowns; owner's blindstamp on 2nd blank; occas. sl. yellowed. Frontcover loose(ning); top of spine sl. chipped.
= Adams F330; Baudrier IX, p.315.
77 2407 Fiddes R 
- First and last lvs. (heavily) stained; partly (sl.) browned/ stained; some offsetting from frontisp. on title-p. Covers loosening; bindings sl. rubbed/ scratched.
= A large paper copy of the first ed. of this work. Richard Fiddes (1671-1725) was an English Anglican priest and historian. Maslen and Lancaster 431/ 589; Lowndes I, p.796.
77 2408 Firefighting Bakker G 
= Publication describing the use of an apparatus which consists of i.a. a long linen tube with holes at various heights, permitting people to escape a burning house: "En nu blijft hem niets meer overig dan vrouw en kinderen, kostbaarheden enz. door den Cilinder naar beneden te laten, en eindelijk zelf te volgen". Very rare.
77 2409 Firefighting Heyden J van der and Heyden de Jonge J van der 
- First few quires (up to p.14) (sl.) mouldy/ dampstained in outer (and occas. upper) blank margin, not affecting the image/ text. Covers rubbed/ sl. worn; backstrip sl. worn.
= The second edition of this fire fighting classic, introducing the hose-pump and showing in its plates several large fires in Amsterdam between 1652-1684 and the tools and implements used before and after the introduction of the author's new hose-pump.
77 2410 Fireworks Publicatie Tegens het loopen met Hoepels Flambauwtjes &c Mitsgaders het werpen en maken van Slangetjes Voetsoekers Klakkebussen en andere Vuurwerken &c 
= Publication proscribing punishment for children lighting firecrackers in the streets: "en ten regarde van de onvermogende/ op poene van by de Kop gevat / op den Huyse van Hasenberg gestelt / ende vervolgens sonder verschoninge aen den Lijve gestraft te worden / sullende d'Ouders ten opsigte van de pecuniele boete voor hare kinderen / en de Voogden voor hare pupillen moeten instaen en betalen".
77 2411 Fontenelle B Le Bouyer de 
- Contemp. owner's entry on each title-page; all vols. pastedowns and first free endpapers browned due to offsetting from turn-ins; first vol. 2 frontispieces and upper pastedown loose.
= Cioranescu 30703; Cohen/ de R. 407: "superbes illustrations"; Sander 720.
77 2412 France François VI Duc de la Rochefoucauld 
77 2412 France François VI Duc de la Rochefoucauld 
- Fine copy.
= Clandestinely published memoirs on the civil wars of France under Louis XIII. Cf. Tchemerzine VII, p.42; cf. Willems 1997 (different pagination).
77 2413 France Le Clerc J 
77 2413 France Le Clerc J 
77 2413 France Le Clerc J 
- Stamps and sm. annots. on titlepages. Joints and spines rubbed.
= Anonymous transl. of Vie d'Armand Jean, Cardinal Duc de Richelieu (Amst., 1694).
AND 1 other: (G. BERTOUX), Anecdotes françoises, depuis l'établissement de la monarchie jusqu'au régne de Louis XV (Paris, 1768, 2nd rev. enl. ed., contemp. gilt calf).
77 2414 France Le Conservateur No 1 52 Ed F R de Chateaubriand M B de Castelbajac a o 
- Spine ends (sl.) worn.
= Ultra-royalist periodical containing various contributions on politics, published until 1820. In his memoirs, Chateaubriand writes that the revolution wrought by this journal was unheard of: in France, it changed the majority in the Chambers, abroad it transformed the spirit of the cabinets.
77 2415 France Maffei F S 
77 2415 France Maffei F S 
- Recased; hinges strengthened w. leather strip; contemp. owner's annot. on title. Covers rubbed/ worn.
= Brunet II, 1467. Cf. Cicognara 4035; Ebert 12739.
77/2416 France L'Officier et Catholique Royal sur le Droict Annnel sic & le I article du tiers Estat 
- Bookblock trimmed; old owner's entry(?) on title-p. Covers rubbed.
= Kress 337. The "Droit annuel" often called the Paulette, had to be paid by the "propriétaires d'offices" if they were to pass their position over to their heirs.
Le Financier à Messieurs des Estats. N.pl., n.publ., 1615, 43[=42],(1)p., modern boards.
- Yellowed.
= Kress 343/ 344; Goldsmiths 443. A call for better control of finances in the realm, including abolition of the Paulette.
77 2417 France Scheelten W F van ed 
77 2417 France Scheelten W F van ed 
77 2417 France Scheelten W F van ed 
77 2417 France Scheelten W F van ed 
- Binding partly worn along edges.
= Rare biography of Hortense de Beauharnais, Queen Consort of Louis Bonaparte, King of the Netherlands.
Soulavie, J.-L. Mémoires Historiques et Anecdotes de la Cour de France, pendant la faveur de la Marquise de Pompadour. Paris, A. Bertrand, 1802, LXIV,424,6p., 12 engr. plates by F. JOURDAN (after MME. DE POMPADOUR), later gilt hleather w. black mor. letterpiece.
- Htitle reattached.
= Biography of Madame de Pompadour, to whom the author attributes the degradation of the prestige of the monarchy and the advent of the French Revolution.
AND 1 other: A. DE TILLY, Mémoires pour servir à l'histoire des moeurs de la fin du 18e siècle (Paris, 1828, 3 vols., contemp. unif. gilt hcalf).
77 2418 Friedberg C G von = C Schoppe 
- Brown offsetting on endpapers; (sl.) foxed; owner's entry on first free endpaper. Binding w. rubbed spots along extremities.
= Rare copy of this pseudonymous work by the German Catholic controversialist Caspar Schoppe (1576-1649). Dünnhaupt 48.3; Hohenemser 4762. On Schoppe, see Killy Literaturlexikon X, p.559ff.
77 2419 Friesland Foppema J = S Feitema? 
= This unique academic satire is a result of the polemic between two Franeker professors and a local doctor, in the form of a supposedly unpublished and only fragmentarily transmitted satire by the Greek comedy-writer Aristophanes, 'translated' into Dutch, in which the Athenian popular assembly judges the doctor's previously published open letter to the professors. Cf. D. van Miert, 'Vroegmoderne campus novels? Academische satire als discours over kennisidealen', in: L.J. Dorsman and P.J. Knegtmans eds., Spiegel of Lachspiegel? De betekenis van de campusnovel voor de wetenschaps- en universiteitsgeschiedenis (Hilversum, 2015), 27-48.
77 2420 Friesland Napjus E 
- Sl. yellowed. Spine-ends and joint sl. worn.
= Warranted by the author on verso of title. Haitsma Mulier/ Van der Lem 347a; Nijhoff/ Van Hattum 209.
77 2421 Froissart J 
- Second part a few quires (very) vaguely waterstained in lower margin; scattered pencil annots. and a few 18th cent. annots. in pen and ink. Both vols. one spine-end and both joints neatly restored, and both vols. w. later endpaper. Nevertheless a fine copy.
= Provenance: Henry Seymour (bookplate on both upper pastedowns). Adams F1066. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XCII.
77 2422 Fulgosus B = B Fregoso 
- Title-p. sl. stained/ spotted and w. crossed out owner's entry; pastedowns creased/ wormholed.
= Cf. Adams F1150 (ed. Paris, 1578); cf. Sabin 26140. Contains short chapters on Gutenberg and Columbus on p.634. Battista Fregoso was doge of Genua.
77 2423 Furniture Magazzino di Mobilia o sieno Modelli di Mobili di ogni genere No 1 and 2 
77 2423 Furniture Magazzino di Mobilia o sieno Modelli di Mobili di ogni genere No 1 and 2 
77 2423 Furniture Magazzino di Mobilia o sieno Modelli di Mobili di ogni genere No 1 and 2 
77 2423 Furniture Magazzino di Mobilia o sieno Modelli di Mobili di ogni genere No 1 and 2 
77 2423 Furniture Magazzino di Mobilia o sieno Modelli di Mobili di ogni genere No 1 and 2 
77 2423 Furniture Magazzino di Mobilia o sieno Modelli di Mobili di ogni genere No 1 and 2 
77 2423 Furniture Magazzino di Mobilia o sieno Modelli di Mobili di ogni genere No 1 and 2 
77 2423 Furniture Magazzino di Mobilia o sieno Modelli di Mobili di ogni genere No 1 and 2 
- Wrappers sl. stained and soiled.
= Beautifully illustrated periodical cum trade-catalogues of furniture, interior decoration and furnishing for wealthy homes. The plates numb. I-IX, mostly with multiple items, all numbered and with extenisive description in the text part. I.a. chairs, mirrors, cabinets, as well as an entire carriage and wall paintings. Very rare. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XCIII.