- Owner's entry on first blank and title-p; portion cut from upper part of second blank; 1 leaf w. tear; partly sl. wormholed in upper left margin; lacks last free endpaper; last part w. pagination in pen and ink. Frontcover loose(ning); corners bumped; lacks letterpiece.
= Spencer's second ed. of the most influential work of early Christian apologetics, in which Origen defends Christianity against the Platonist Celsus.
- First plate sl. duststained and w. sm. purple inkstain.
= Early attempt at a facsimile-edition and early specimen of lithography.
= Rare piece of satire, prob. alluding to the treaty of Paris (Traité de Partage) between France and the Dutch Republic (1635).
- Partly waterstained; washed copy; new endpapers. = Knuttel 9762.
- Title loose and browned; heavily annotated copy in contemp. hand, possibly by W. Baudartius.
= Knuttel 2624.
Sententien: By den Hove van Hollant ghearresteert jegen Reynier van Oldenbarnevelt/ Heere van Groenevelt: David Coorenwinder/ gewesene Secretaris van Berckel: Adriaen Adriaenssz van Dijck/ gewesene Secretaris van Bleyswijck over haerluyder grouwelijcke en moordadige Conspiratie/ jegens den Persoon vanden Doorluchtigen en hoogh-gebooren Vorst/ den Heere Prince van Orangien, &c. mitsgaders tegens den welstandt van 't Landt. Ibid., Wed. van Wouw, 1623, (30)p., woodengr. vignette, without wr., sm. 4to (Knuttel 3450). - AND 4 other pamphlets concerning the convicted attempts of murder on Maurits, Prince of Oranje, all executed in 1623 (Knuttel 3442, 3453, 3460 and 3461). - AND 7 other 17/ 18th cent. pamphlets, 5x in contemp. chintz. wr.
- Waterstained.
Placaet tegens concubinaetschap, hoererye, en ehebreuke. Ibid., widow of J. Barlinkhof, 1723, (8)p., woodcut coat of arms of Groningen on title-p., without wr.
- Owner's stamp on verso title-p. Frontcover loose(ning). = Van der Wulp 1185.
- (Vaguely) waterst. = Knuttel 2618. Attributed to F. Aerssen.
AND 2 others, i.a. (J. TRIGLAND), Ontrouwe des valschen Waerschouwers, die teghen een seker boecxken, ghenaemt Stant vande hedendaegsche Gheschillen (...) is uytghevaren (Amst., 1616, woodcut title-vignette, later plain wr., sm. 4to. Knuttel 2291).
= Knuttel 1960. One of four different Dutch translations of the Declaration du Serenissime Roy de la Grand' Bretaigne sur ses actions devers les Estats Generaux des Pais bas unis touchant le faict de Conradus Vorstius. Pamphlet on the attack of King James I on the Dutch heretic Conrad Vorstius, whom he wished to be expelled by the States General for his publications Tractatus Theologicus de Deo (1610) and his Exegesis Apologetica (1611). When the Remonstrant Vorstius was appointed to succeed Arminius as Professor of Theology at Leyden University, the polarization and growing opposition against Vorstius not only led to the burning of his books at the orders of King James I, but eventually led to Vorstius' removal from his post.
= Knuttel 14105.
Het gedrag der Engelschen, omtrent den staet der Vereenigde Nederlanden, in den voorgaenden en tegenwoordigen oorlog. Amst. etc., S. van Esveldt etc., 1756, 15,(1)p., contemp. wr.
- Contemp. owner's entry on title-p. = Knuttel 18528.
= Nice miscellaeneous collection concerning i.a. the First Stadtholder Tijdperk and the inheritance of Prince Willem III.
- Endpapers, first blank and felt trifle wormholed; hinges weak; occas. sl. (water)stained/ dogeared. Binding sl. worn/ dam.
= Portuguese practical guide to understanding and practicing the Catholic devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus. Very rare. Not found in Worldcat/ usual reference works.
José, P. De Jesus Maria. Mystica cidade de Deos praticada em meditaçoens para toto o tempo do anno. Ibid., F. Borges De Sousa, 1764, vol.1 (of 3), (32),399p., contemp. gilt mottled calf w. marbled edges and mor. letterpiece.
- Title-p. loosening; a few lvs. sl. stained. Binding sl. rubbed. Otherwise fine.
= Portuguese collection of Catholic meditations throughout the year based on the Spanish revelational book Mystical City of God by the 17th-century Franciscan nun Mary of Jesus of Ágreda. Very rare. Not found in Worldcat/ usual reference works.
AND 1 Italian Catholic directory: B. DA CASTELVETERE, Direttorio mistico per li confessori, ovvero istruzione (Rome, 1756, contemp. vellum).
- Occas. trifle foxed/ yellowed; first free endpaper loose. Binding worn.
Bruin, C. Noordhollandsche Arkadia; verrykt met aantekeningen van den heere Gerrit Schoemaker. Amst., E. Visscher, 1732, (20),502,(8)p., etched/ engr. frontisp. and 22 (of 24) plates w. 2 views each by A. ZEEMAN, 1 full-p. plate, contemp. vellum, sm. 8vo.
- Mediocre copy: lacks 2 plates; most leaves waterstained in margins; bookplate loose. Sold w.a.f.
= Nijhoff/ Van Hattum 53; De Vries 26; Waller 343. The first and only edition.
- First ±30 leaves (incl. title-p.) waterstained in lower half (diminishing towards p.XXXII); a few leaves loose. Vellum wrinkled.
= Rare. Veldman, Profit and Pleasure, VI and p.61-72; Hollstein 855, cf. the second edition of 1616; the engravings in first state (without the number in lower right). SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE CVII.
- Most plates w. offsetting from former flimsies. Binding trifle rubbed along extremities.
= The engravings printed from the orig. plates. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE CVII.
- Partly foxed; binding trifle worn.
- Sl. later owner's entry in pen and ink on upper pastedown; sm. owner's ticket on first free endpaper. Upper joint completely split w. remnants of former reattachments still visible along edges; corners showing.
= All titles either by Andries Pels or by members of/ on behalf of the society Nil Volentibus Arduum, of which Pels was one of the founders.