- One plate sl. browned in blank margins, not affecting image; occas. (sl.) foxed/ yellowed. Lacks portion of backstrip at spine-ends.
= From Descriptions des Arts et Métiers. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XCII.
- New endpapers; partly (vaguely) waterst.; title-p. stained and w. some rubbed spots (erasing part of publication year); one quire loose(ning). Vellum trifle stained; fore-edge frontcover sl. trimmed.
= A 16th century guide with precepts for preserving good health. Eobanus, a humanist and distinguished poet, also studied medicine for several years. The book includes chapters on daily life, food, herbs, brewing beer and wine. Woodcuts include: a vomiting drunkard ("De ebrietate"), a man taking a siesta ("De somno meridiano"), a couple embracing in bed ("De venere") and a man crouched over a chamber-pot. Durling 2293; Simon, Bibliotheca Bacchica 221; cf. Oberlé, Bibliothèque Bachique 54 (ed. 1582); cf. Vicaire 331 (ed. 1531); cf. Bibliotheca Walleriana 2768 (ed. 1560). SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XCIII.
- Occas. trifle foxed. Vellum sl. soiled. = Rare.
Haes, F. de. Stichtelyke Gedichten. Ibid., N. Smithof, 1746, (32),208,(2)p., engr. title-vignette by J. PUNT, contemp. hcalf, 4to.
- Binding sl. rubbed.
- Usual occas. browning/ foxing. Otherwise fine.
- Bindings trifle worn. = The 3rd Dutch edition. Landwehr F107; Waller 589; Bodemann II, 158.
AND a later edition of the same work (Dordr., 1829).
- Occas. sl. (water)st./ soiled. Covers, boardedges and corners sl. rubbed/ worn; dam. spots on backstrips; letterpieces defective/ lacking.
= The 3rd Dutch edition. Landwehr F107; Waller 589; Bodemann II, 158.
- Pastedowns detached; first lvs. sl. mouldy in upper margin. Vellum dam. at upper edge covers; lacks part of backstrip.
= On the author, calling himself the "onghestudeerden Vlaemschen Boer van Hardye", see at large Nationaal Biografisch Woordenboek XI, p.250-254 ("controversist").
- Lacks vol.2. One plate trifle browned/ frayed in portion of outer margin (strengthened on verso). Upper outer corner of frontcover of vol.1 restored; spine-ends of vol.3 restored; both vols. backcover sl. scratched.
= Six (occas. 5) coats of arms remained blank in all copies. An additional part without plates was published in 1772/ 1781.
- Joints splitting at top of spine; corners showing.
- Partly sl. browned (worsening towards the end).
- Owner's entry on first blank, repaired tear in title-p.; first and last lvs. sl. waterst./ foxed. Backstrip sl. rubbed.
= First posthumous ed. of a fundamental essay on Italian Protestantism by the German Calvinist theologian and historian Daniel Gerdes (1698-1765), a passionate defender of the Protestant freedom of conscience. See NNBW III, p.460ff.
- Inkstain on upper pastedown and inner margin of preliminary leaves; sl. foxed. Top of spine dam.; corners worn/ dam.
= Guide to the reading and understaning of royal and imperial German official documents.
- Usual occas. browning/ foxing. = Tiele 1033. Incl. nice views of Strasbourg and Vienna.
- Fine set.
- Both vols. w. owner's entry on first free endpaper and bookplate on upper pastedown. Corners sl. worn/ rubbed; backstrips sl. rubbed; vol.2 upper joint starting.
= The relatively scarce abridged version, using the sheets that were printed for the first abridged edition printed by J. Kearsley in 1789, but without the htitles (which explains that the first preliminary leaf of both vols. is absent).
- Binding worn; frontcover loosening.
= Goldsmiths 9339; not in Kress and Einaudi. Details on formats and prices of glass. The publisher Prault obtained the right to publish these tariffs in 1758 and continued to publish them until the arrival of the Empire. With a few loosely inserted lvs. w. annots. and calculations, incl. 2 contemp. playing cards.
- Lacks one map. Binding chafed; lower joint splitting.
= Contains a worldmap in 2 hemispheres "De aard-kloot volgens de hedendaagse gedaante" (17x29,3 cm.) and fine ½-page portraits of Baruch Spinoza and Baltasar Bekker.
- Usual occas. browning/ foxing; 2nd-4th vols. new endpapers.
= Includes a nice map of the eastern part of North America: "Nieuwe Kaart van de Grootbrittannische Volksplantingen in Noord America".
- Partly foxed; all vols. bookplate on upper pastedown. Corners and spine-ends sl. rubbed; lower end of upper joint of vol.2 split over 12 cm.
= The portraits, plates and maps all in fine condition. Landwehr, R. de Hooghe the etcher p.159. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XCIV.
- Fine copy.
= Willems 287 note; Rahir 252. Colophon at the end dated 1630, but the engr. title still mentioning 1627.