77 2564 Lightfoot J

77 2564 Lightfoot J

77 2564 Lightfoot J

77 2564 Lightfoot J

77 2564 Lightfoot J

- Both vols. w. annot. on upper pastedown; library stamp on verso title-p.; occas. (sl.) foxed/ browned; upper and lower hinges and first few lvs. sl. wormholed. Shelfticket on spine. Otherwise a fine copy.

= Contains a map of the Holy Land and plans of Jerusalem and the Temple. Fürst II, p.249.

77 2566 Linguistics Sewel W

- Title-p. browned in margins. Binding chafed; joints splitting. = Cf. Waller 1544.

77 2567 Lithgow W

- First quire reattached; sl. yellowed; first lvs. (incl. frontisp. and title-p.) waterst. in upper margin. Rebacked w. cloth.

= Tiele 695 (note); Cat. NHSM I, p.133 (ed. 1652); Stoye p.382-389; cf. Von Hünersdorff/ Hasenkamp II, p.903 (Lithgow's writings brought news of coffee houses to England). William Lithgow (1582-1645?), famous Scottish traveller, who walking from Scotland, through Europe, the Levant and North Africa, on his way to Africa, was imprisoned and tortured by the Spaniards, first on suspicion of being an English spy and later for being an heretic.

77 2568 Lokeren J B van

- Title-p. reattached w. paper tape; armorial bookplate and owner's stamps on verso wrappers; occas. dogeared. Upper joint splitting; library ticket/ sellotape on foot of spine.

77 2569 Loosjes Pz A and Moens P

- Library and cancellation stamp on title; new endpapers. = Rare, two copies in NCC.

77 2570 Lot of 13 broadsides

- All folded.

= Contains i.a. the following broadsides: Placaet (...) dat (...) egeen het minste Silver ofte Munt-materiael van wat soorte of gedaente 't selve oock soude mogen wesen, ende wel specialijck daer onder begrepen de Spaensche realen (...) jegenwoordigh binnen dese Landen zijnde ofte namaels werdende ingebracht, sal mogen werden uytgevoert, ofte n andere Landen overgebracht (...) (The Hague, J. Scheltus, 1701); Placaat, Houdende verbodt tegens het vaarendt Volck, Ingezeten deeser Landen, van haar te begeven in vreemden dienst, en revocatie van de selve (ibid., idem, 1727) and two broadsides warning and regulating against the spread of infectious diseases from the North of Germany (dated 1712) and from the Greek Levantine islands of "Zante, of van Corfu, Veniza, Cephalonia, St. Mauro, ofte uyt de havens van Morea (...)" (ibid., idem, 1728).

77 2571 Lottini G A

77 2571 Lottini G A

77 2571 Lottini G A

- Lacks one ill. (no.9: page left blank); some sl. foxing/ thumbing/ soiling throughout; one leaf w. repaired tear in lower margin w. brown gluestains. Backstrip rubbed/ worn; spine-ends sl. dam.

= The engravings, except for the title, were done by JACQUES CALLOT, after G. BILIVERTI, F. BOSCHI, A. MASCAGNI, POMERANCIO, M. ROSSELLI and TEMPESTA. Plan 73-112; Lieure 80-119. This copy with the plates of the first edition of 1619, numbered in the right lower corner only and w. erratic order (corrected in later eds.) and with the title (a later(?) copy on Japanese paper) undated (like the 3rd ed.), but w. the address of the 2nd ed. of 1636; also without the general "L'Annonciation" plate, only present in the first ed.: "Il se rencontre des exemplaires de l'ouvrage avec le titre du 3e état et les estampes du 1er. Cette anomalie "ne peut s'expliquer d'après Meaume, que par la découverte d'anciens exemplaires restés en magasin, mais incomplets du titre"." (Lieure p.32).

77 2573 Lundorp M C

- Hinges weak; bookplate on upper pastedown; partly sl. dogeared; occas. sl. stained; a few lvs. sl. dam. Two corners showing.

= Rare. Continuation of Sleidanus' De statu religionis et reipublicae (Strasbourg, 1555), an ecclesiastical and political history of Europe under the reign of Charles V (1517-1555). In this continuation, the German historian Michael Caspar Lundorp (1580-1629) describes the years 1555-1569. Feter p.203 about Sleidanus: "Sleidan durfte lange Zeit als der am besten unterrichtete Autor über die Geschichte der Reformation gelten. Er war in seiner Art ein Kühner Neuerer, der erste nicht theologische Autor, der in einem humanistischen Geschichtswerk die kirchlichen Kämpfe des 16. Jhdts. eingehend behandelte."

77 2574 Luther M

77 2574 Luther M

77 2574 Luther M

- The 4th vol. (of 4) only; title-p. pasted to first free endpaper along inner blank margin; occas. sl. browned. Binding sl. darkened (w. lighter spots from former catches and cornerpieces) and trifle rubbed.

= Adams L1750.

77 2575 Machiavelli N

- Sm. tear in last leaf repaired w. paper on verso. Upper hinge broken; letterpiece worn. Otherwise fine.

= Rare copy of John Wolfe's fictitious Italian edition of Machiavelli's Il Principe, which had been put on the Index librorum prohibitorum in 1559 in Italy. From the library of Artur Buchenau (his bookplate on upper pastedown). Bertelli/ Innocenti 171; Gerber II, p.87, 2.

77 2576 Machiavelli N

77 2576 Machiavelli N

- Fine. = Willems 1656; Rahir 2018,

77 2577 Maldonatus J

- Partly yellowed/ browned; bookplate on upper pastedown; some scratching in pen and ink in lower blank margin of title-p.; sm. bookplate on upper pastedown. Vellum sl. scratched and wrinkled and sl. browned along margins; lower joint splitting at foot of spine; top of spine chipped; corners worn; lacks ties.

77 2579 Maritime history Brandt G

- A few quires sl. wormholed in upper blank corner; large fold. plate sl. browned; contents otherwise fine. Vellum dustsoiled/ stained and worn along extremities.

= Cat. NHSM p.844. The most important old source on the famous Dutch admiral.

77 2581 Maritime history Scheeps Gereedschappen Te Koop tot Amsterdam Op Maandag den 16 Maart 1778 Denys Tentye Makelaar Een Party Scheeps Gereedschappen Bestaande in Ankers Touwen Z

- Results(?) listed in contemp. pen and ink in upper right corner.

77 2583 Mennonites Schaap J C

- Occas. fingersoiled in blank margin. Lower hinge broken. = Rare..