- First title doubled and lacking 2 portions in outer blank margin; bookplate on upper pastedown and first free endpaper; 19th cent. annots. on verso first blank. Binding rubbed; backstrip worn.
= From the library of J.W. Six. Haitsma Mulier/ Van der Lem 483b and d.
- Frontisp. lacks tiny portion of lower corner; last few quires w. sm. wormhole in outer margin and waterstain in upper outer corner. Extremities rubbed/ sl. worn.
= De Wind p.421-424. A history of Holland and Zeeland up to 1433, first published in Latin, 1635. Bound with sm. publisher's list.
- Contents not collated, but appears to be complete. = Haitsma Mulier/ Van der Lem 507f; De Buck 1130.
AND 3 others by/ on J. WAGENAAR.
- Without vol. 10 and 21; vol. 2 title-p. loose; occas. sl. yellowed/ foxed. A few bindings w. restorations/ minor imperfections; two vols. lack letterpiece.
= Haitsma Mulier/ Van der Lem 507f; De Buck 1130.
- Bookplate (Sir Joseph Verdin) on upper pastedown of vol. 1; both vols. lack htitle; vol. 2 lacks the book advertisements; both vols. sl. foxed (also affecting the plates/ maps). Upper joint of vol. 1 weak; backstrips sl. worn and spine-ends partly chipped.
= Ferguson 690. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE CV.
- Library tickets and stamp of King's College on first endpapers and title-p.; a few lvs. trifle stained/ foxed; two lvs. w. sm. tear in blank margin. Upper joint sl. splitting. Otherwise a fine, clean copy.
= The first posthumous ed. of Newton's theological work. "It seems remarkable that a scientist could have written this theological study of abstruse prophecy, but Brewster says that Newton 'had been a searcher of the Scriptures from his youth, and he found it no abrupt transition to pass from the study of the material universe to an investigation of the profoundest truths, and the most obscure predictions, of Holy Writ (...). This ingenious work is characterized by great learning, and marked with the sagacity of its distinguished author.'" (Knight Babson, p.110).
- Lacks 3 preliminary leaves and the final 4 leaves; engr. title cut to the borderline and dam. (w. loss of image) in lower right corner; partly waterstained; fingersoiled/ duststained; a few sm. rustholes; partly cut short in lower margin affecting catchwords and quire signatures; new endpapers.
= Veldman, Profit and Pleasure p.33ff: "The Nieuwen ieucht spieghel [our title-p. reads "spiegel") is in fact a sequel to Van der Heyden's Jeucht-Spieghel (1610), which consists of 14 prints and letterpress Dutch poems by Zacharias Heyns, most of them warning agains rashness in affairs of the heart. With 232 pages and 49 prints, it is much larger than its forerunner. (...) De Passe was himself involved in the publication, and designed a frontispiece with a depiction of the five senses." Extremely rare. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE CVII.
- Occas. browned incl. plates; bookplate on upper pastedown. Spine-ends dam.; backstrip creased; corners showing.
= Nijhoff/ Van Hattum 53; De Vries 26; Waller 343. The first and only edition.
AND 2 others on Amsterdam and surroundings, i.a. D. WILLINK, Amsterdamsche Buitensingel (Amst., 1738, 2nd ed., engr. frontisp., 4 fold. views and 11 plates w. each 2 views, 1 plate, contemp. calf (sl. dam.)).
- Owner's entry on upper pastedown. Vellum trifle soiled; 1st vol. upper joint splitting.
= Haitsma Mulier/ Van der Lem 222.
- Foxed/ (sl.) browned; scribbling in pen and ink in blank margins of a few preliminary leaves. = Goldsmiths 551.
BOUND WITH 7 others similar, all publ. in 1623-1624, all similarly foxed/ browned, i.a. J.W. HILLER, Responsum Iuris Uber die Frag Ob ein Schuldtner seinen Glaubiger, der ihme vor disem mit guter gangbarer unverrufter Reichs Müntz lehensweiß aussgeholffen mit jetziger im Schwang gehender geringhältig oder gesteigerten Münz rechtmessig bezahlen könne (...) (Augsb., 1624, 4th corr. ed. Kress 411); J. LUSTRICIUS, Responsum Iuris Alterum (...) Ob einer welcher voretlich Jahren gut Geldt aussgelihen oder darmit jährliche Pensiones erkaufft hat schuldig seye sich mit grassen Müntzen der jetzigen gestaigerten hohen Valuta nach bezahlen zu lassen oder nicht (Augsb., A. Aperger, 1624. Kress 402); DER STATT FRANCKFURT AM MAIN TAXORDNUNG (Frankf. a.M., J. Schmidling, 1623); H. KNIEPHOFF (under pseud. TH. GLEICHRECHT), De controversiis ex moneta adulterina noviter exortis secundum adminicula Iuris ex aequo & bono dicendis. Oder Unvorgreiffliches Bedencken, Wie nunmehr nach restituirtem rechtmässigen Müntzwesen die hieraus angesponnene Streitigkeiten mehrentheils vermüge der Rechte und natürlicher Billigkeit erortert und verglichen werden (...) (Erfuhrt, 1623. Final 4 lvs upper blank corners restored. Not traced).
= Rare
- Lacks part 5 (containing 7 plates). Bindings dustsoiled and sl. worn along edges. Contents fine.
= Lipsius/ Leitzman, suppl. p.81.
- Occas. yellowed/ sl. browned. Corners worn; spine-ends partly chipped; covers chafed/ sl. scratched; joints partly splitting/ starting at top of spines. Nevertheless a good copy.
= Haitsma Mulier/ Van der Lem 311-b; Lipsius/ Leitzmann p.235.
- Title-p. lacks portion w. loss of title and doubled w. contemp. paper and reattached w. sellotape; first 2 plates cut/ (almost) torn in half along fold; a few lvs. w. offsetting; occas. sl. stained/ foxed. Covers/ corners sl. worn.
= Lipsius/ Leitzmann p.261.
- Occas. sl. yellowed; vol. 3 w. 19th cent. owner's ticket on verso of first free endpaper. Corners sl. worn; covers rubbed/ sl. worn and partly stained.
= Lipsius/ Leitzmann p.261; Clain/ Stefanelli 14862; Graesse IV, p.521; Ebert 14022.
- Trifle yellowed/ foxed; stitching holes in blank margin.
= Contains poems by Francina Jacoba Coets Geg.: van Westrem, J.F. Teekman, N.S. van Leeuwaarden, D. Willink, C. Biben and J. D'Outrein.
AND a wedding-poem by Hendrik van den Born (rector at the Gymnasium of Hattem) on occasion of the marriage of ASSUËER JAN BARON TÖRCK ("Heer van Pettecum, Beschrevene in de Ridderschap van Velue, Hoofdschout van Maestricht &c. &c &c.") and EUSEBIA JACOBA BARONESSE ROODE VAN HEEKEREN on June 8th 1758 (fold. broadside, Zwolle, S. Clement, 1758).
- Frontisp. to 1st part sl. yellowed/ foxed and loosening. Corner of frontcover sl. knacked.
= Caillet 4046 ("Livre singulier et rare qui a été mis à l'index par la Cour de Rome le 29 avril 1744").
- Occas. sl. browned at inner margin; the final part (Sleutel) without the final 9 unnumb. pages (index?). Otherwise fine.
= Including "Sleutel van meester Franciscus, Op het Astrologisch werk van Docter Ludeman". D.J.H. ter Horst, Franciscus Lievens Kersteman p.132 ff.; Scheepers II, 842; Mateboer 1419 and (for the "Sleutel") 1357.
ADDED: NEDERLANDSCHE MUZEN-ALMANAK 1823 (lacks backstrip)/ 1834 (2 vols., orig. (not unif.) boards, 12mo).
- Lacks one plate and one portrait. Vellum sl. rubbed; spine sl. stained. Otherwise fine.
= Haitsma Mulier/ Van der Lem 228.
- Bookplate on upper pastedown.
= A collection of 18 texts i.a. by J. VAN DEN VONDEL, M.Z. VAN BOXHORN, G. BRANDT and R. ANSLO.
- Contemp. owner's entry on title.