- Apart from a few textleaves w. foxed spots, a very fine and clean 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 XCIV.
- Old owner's entry on first free endpaper (illegible); gilt on top edge dulled.
= The rare continuation of Greenwood's Boere-Pinxtervreugd, first publ. Rott. 1733 and here included in the 2nd edition as the second part. Boere-Pinxtervreugd is a satirical poem on the Pentecost festivities in a Dutch village, illustrated with 4 nice etchings, starting with the festive entry of the drummers and ending with a mass brawl at the inn.
- Bookplate on verso first free endpaper (in vol. 4 also annot. on title-p.); occas. sl. foxed/ soiled/ (water)stained/ creased (esp. first and last lvs.). Bindings trifle rubbed.
= Latin text with Dutch translation of a work that Grotius wrote at the age of 19 and of which only the third book has been rediscovered. Ter Meulen/ Diermanse 750; Haitsma Mulier/ Van der Lem 192g. Including the 4th vol. "Register (...) gevolgd door eene narede, gelijk mede door Athenen onder Cleo, of eene verhandeling over het tooneeldicht van Aristophanes: De ridders, als bijlage tot het hoofddeel der vrijheid en slaavernij".
- Vol. 1 partly waterstained in lower blank corner, not affecting text; vol. 2 sm. owner's entry on first blank. Bindings worn.
= Ter Meulen/ Diermanse 232, 913 and 1249: "L'ouvrage est en grande partie basé sur des manuscrits et des lettres manuscrites". The main old source for the Grotius study in first edition.
- Occas. sl. yellowed. Frontcover almost loose; binding w. severe acid bite/ dam. from mottling; backstrip dam. on letterpiece, on part of raised bands and at spine-ends.
= Nijhoff/ Van Hattum 6; Ekama 120; Hollstein XXXIII, 391 and 417-427 (Van de Velde); Hollstein XXIII, 2 and 3 (P.J. Saenredam); McMurtrie, The invention of printing 848; Bigmore/ Wyman I, 8 and II, 326; not in Carter/ Vervliet. One of the finest Dutch town descriptions with beautiful etchings by Jan van de Velde II. Also important for being the main early source for Laurens Jansz. Coster as inventor of the art of printing and for its typography with the alternating use of roman, gothic and civilité types. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XCV.
- Lacks 2 lvs. w. blazons and 2 fold. plates; 4 fold. plates lack one or more parts; plates occas. sl. creased and erroneously assembled or bound. Usual (sl.) foxing/ yellowing; occas. sl. soiled and a few lvs. w. marginal (water)stain. Binding soiled/ sl. stained. Sold w.a.f.
= Bibl. Belg. J.37; Praz 307; Scheurleer 138; Simoni H.104; Ekama 59; Moes/ Burger IV, p.257-261; Carter/ Vervliet 307. Generally considered the most beautiful Dutch rhetorical work. The rhetorical competition - in plays and poems on Christian charity - was organized by the Haarlem Chamber of Rhetoric "Trou moet blijcken" and the most important Dutch chambers participated (i.a. Leyden, Katwijk, Schiedam, Amsterdam, Noordwijk, The Hague). SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XCIII.
- Browned. = Bierens de Haan 2697.
Enschedé, A.J. Bijdrage tot de geschiedenis van den Grafelijkheidstol te Sparendam. N.pl., n.publ., n.d. (1874), 52p., orig. boards.
- Paper over backstrip for the larger part worn off.
AND 5 others similar, i.a. P. BOEKEL, Geschiedenis van het Haarlemmermeer in schetsen en tafereelen (Amst., 1868, 2 fold. lithogr. maps, orig. wr.).
- Spine broken (contents loose(ning). Backstrip lacking. = Ekama 480.
- Fine copy. = Ekama 712.
- Lacks the map. Otherwise a fine copy.
= Ekama 721. Contains views of "Duin en Daal", "De nieuwe Brouwerskolk", "Het Slot van Heemstede" and "Beverwijk".
- All issues w. 2 contemp. seal stamps on title-p. = Rare uninterrupted run.
- Plates sl. browned; occas. trifle foxed. Paper over boards partly worn off; joints splitting; worn along extremities.
= Ekama 543; Nijhoff/ Van Hattum 54; McMurtrie 1082.
Naam-register, van de Heeren van Regeering der Stad Haarlem, van de Ministers van dien; en van derzelver Commissien; als meede van eenige Ampten en Employen binnen dezelve. Ibid., G. van Kessel, 1733, no pagination, woodcut printer's mark, contemp. hroan, 4to.
- Fine, untrimmed copy.
= Warranted by the municipal secretaries D. Guldewagen and P. Steyn on verso title-p. Interesting copy with numerous extensive manuscript additions and annotations on interleaved blanks and blank spaces of the printed pages, supplementing the printed data to approx. 1853.
AND 2 others on Haarlem.
- Remnants of wax seal on title. = Knuttel 4009; Ekama 133. Rare.
Bakker, A. Memorie van Rechten (...) in de crimineele saak tegens Romein de Hooge, etser aldaer. Amst., J. Rieuwertsz, 1690, 31p., later wr.
= Knuttel 13545.
AND 13 others on Haarlem, i.a. 11 vols. of MAANDELYKSE NAAM-LYST VAN ALLE DE OVERLEDENE MENSCHEN (...) (Haarlem, 1813, orig. wr. Lacks the month of February).
- Upper hinges almost broken; lacks first free endpaper. Final part increasingly waterstained towards the end.
= Ad 1: Ekama 427; ad 2: Bodel Nijenhuis 1611; ad 3: Bodel Nijenhuis 1010.
- Haarlem plate w. closed tear. Frontcover loose(ning); top of spine chipped. = Ekama 427.
- Lacks 2 plates. Bindings sl. rubbed.
= Nijhoff/ Van Hattum 277; Ekama 508; Klaversma/ Hannema 1297; Van Eeghen/ Van der Kellen 488. The second edition, the first with the plates. According the binder's instructions possibly complete w. 46 plates present.
- Fold. plates w. sm. tear at lower inner margin. Sl. worn along extremities.
= Ekama 449; Haitsma Mulier/ Van der Lem 447c.
- Owner's stamp of the Dutch zoologist Johan F. Snelleman (i.a. director of the Museum voor Volkenkunde) on title-p.; sl. foxed (not affecting the plates); first leaf torn (repaired).
= Complete in itself. Orig. published in the 23rd part of the "Verhandelingen van de Hollandsche Maatschappij Ao 1786."
AND 2 others, i.a. (J.C. DE LANNOY), De belegering van Haerlem. Treurspel (Amst., 1770, later wr., sm. 8vo. Stamp on title-p.)
- Trifle foxed. Paper over spine-ends worn off.
= Among the famous members of "De Wijngaardranken" was Frans Hals.
AND 1 other on the same society.
- Backstrip dam. = Harlemia illustrata 177-182; cf. Van der Linde 482.
Schermer, L. Poëzy. Amst., E. Visscher, 1730, 2nd ed., (24),557,(7)p., engr. frontisp., 20 engr. plates (w. letterpress captions) by J. VAN VIANEN, contemp. hroan.
- Binding badly worn.
= Contains i.a. ills. of the "Haarlemmer Hout", "Het Sparen" and "Het Haarlemmer Meer".
ADDED: 1 other.