- Corners showing; spine-ends worn; vol. 2 w. contemp. owner's entry on title-p.
- Waterstained almost throughout (affecting text and engravings). Sold w.a.f. = Very rare.
- Library stamps on first blank and verso title-p.; outer margin of 1 plate extended; a few lvs. w. sm. marginal tear; sl. foxed/ stained. Spine dam.; lacks ties.
= From the library of the Jesuit College of Ingolstadt (annot. on title-p.). Anti-Lutheran historical publication by the Jesuit Gottfried Weyer (1610-1682). Plates showing Melanchthon, Zwingli and Luther. De Backer/ Sommervogel VIII, p.1087. Cf. C.T. Berkhout, Early Printed Books in the Heiko A. Oberman Library at the University of Arizona (Tucson, 2017), p.33f.
Widerlegtes L.L.L. Das ist: Liederlich-Lutherisch-Lomerisches neulich außgestecktes fünfft - Evangelisches Panier oder Zeichen, deme von recht-gesinnten Catholischen Gegneren Billich und kräfftig wiedersprochen wird. Augsb., sold by J. Stretter, 1701, 8 parts in 1 vol., contemp. vellum w. ties, 4to.
- Lacks first free endpaper; annots. on upper pastedown and title-p. Occas. sl. stained and dogeared.
= Collection of 8 (Jesuit) pamphlets against the work Evangelisches Panier (1701) by the Lutheran theologian Gottfried Lomer. Cf. De Backer/ Sommervogel I, p.873f. Jantz, reel 595, no. 3349.
- Paper over spine and boards partly worn off.
= First printing of the third edition of Immanuel Kant's major work, with "verbesserte" on title-page instead of "unveraenderte". "Kant's great achievement was to conclude finally the lines on which philosophical speculation had proceeded in the eighteenth century, and to open up a new and more comprehensive system of dealing with the problems of philosophy" (PMM 226). Warda 61; cf. Norman 1167.
- Partly sl. foxed. Good copy.
= First edition thus, being the first collected edition of Leibniz' philosophical works in French and Latin, and containing the first printing of one of Leibniz' most important philosophical works, his "Nouveaux essays sur l'entendement humain" (New Essays on Human Understanding), in which he attacks and refutes Locke and his "Essay on Human Understanding" and gives important testimony to his own philosophical ideas (as stated in the preface by Raspe, p.X). Graesse IV,152. With the armorial bookplate and owner's entry of Joseph (Ferdinand), Count of Rheinstein-Tattenbach. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE CVIII.
- Partly (sl.) foxed; heraldic bookplate on upper pastedown; hinges partly split. Foot of spine dam.; corners worn; upper joint split at top end; covers rubbed/ sl. worn.
= Tall (large paper?) copy (47x31 cm.). Beautiful plates. A Dutch edition was published in the same year as the French edition. Cohen/ De Ricci 531; cf. Fürstenberg, Das französische Buch 71 and Sander 1899. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE CVIII.
- Both vols. bookplate on upper pastedown. Both vols. frontcover loose(ning) and backstrip worn (vol. 1 lacks portion at foot).
- (Sl.) yellowed throughout; old annots in pen and ink on first free endpaper; sm. section of lower margin of first free endpaper cut out. Covers w. old stains.
= Standard work on papal history, originally published in Venice, 1479. BM German books S12.
- First frontisp. cut sl. short. Part 2 a few pages sl. browned. Spine-ends trifle worn; corners bumped. Good/fine copy.
= Rather rare and only edition.
- Preliminary leaves of vol.1 sl. stained in lower margin. Fine set. = All vols. in first edition.
- All bindings worn/ rubbed; spine-ends dam.
= The third vol. also contains "Het leven van Hubert Korneliszoon Poot".
AND 3 others in 6 vols., i.a. the same work (Delft, 1726-1747, 2nd (vol. 1 and 3)/ 1st (vol. 2) ed., 3 vols., engr. frontisp., title-vign., portrait, full-p. divisional titles and headpieces, contemp. (unif.) (h)calf, sm. 4to. All vols. remnants of bookplate on upper pastedown; vols.1 and 2 hinges weak. Backstrip worn/ dam.).
- (Sl.) waterst. at the beginning (incl. frontisp. and title-p.); bookplate on upper pastedown. Covers vaguely waterst.; lower corner backcover bumped.
= Dünnhaupt 26.
AND 1 other: B.H. BROCKES, Verdeutschte Grund-Sätze der Welt-Weisheit (...) als der Irdischen Vergnügens in Gott Dritter Theil (ibid., 1728, engr. frontisp., contemp. vellum).
- First leaf and wr. sl. waterst.; one ill. cut short. Sm. ticket on spine.
= Rare, no copies traced. The "transformation" ills. show a man and a woman half dead and half alive.
- Owner's entry on first free endpaper; 1 plate w. sm. tear in outer (blank) margin.
= Klaversma/ Hannema 281; Van Eeghen/ Van der Kellen 315; Muller 779; Scheepers II, 961.
- Several owner's entries on verso of covers (the earliest dating 1776); sl. dogeared. Backstrip strengthened w. tape.
= Very rare Dutch edition of the separately published second part of The Pilgrim's Progress, written from the wife and children's point of view. Not in the usual reference works and not in the JAP 1990-2020.
AND 1 other: F.L. KERSTEMAN (under pseud. J.C. Ludeman). Kroonwerk; of laatste eeuwbazuin (Arnhem etc., 1788, engr. frontisp., 1 plate, contemp. marbled wr., 4to).
- Libr. stamp on title-p. and first free endpaper and/ or htitle; htitles browned. Traces of ticket at foot of spine of all vols.
Hood, Th. Luimige reis langs den rijn. Uit het Engels. Amst., G.J.A. Bijerinck, 1840, VI,338p., woodengr. title-vignette, 12 woodengr. plates, 1 text-ill., contemp. hcl.
- Htitle and frontisp. plate dam; one plate cl. tear in lower blank margin. Corners rubbed. Otherwise fine.
AND 1 other: J. IMMERZEEL JR., Lotgevallen van Balthazar Knoopius. Luimig beschreven door - (Amst., 1842, line-engr. plates by J.G. BENDORP, contemp. boards).
- Sl. yellowed; a few lvs. w some reddish stains. Joints splitting; traces of sello tape at foot of spine.
= Rare Dutch translation (first published in Paris, 1796). Waller 566. At the end a treatise on different species of dogs.
- Lacks title and p.1 and 2 of Leytsman; lacks 1 plate; sl. waterstained throughout; bookblock broken and some lvs. loose; bookplate on upper pastedown.
= Muller 581, De Vries 413 and Scheepers I, 487. The first Dutch edition was published in 1613. Very rare.
- Bookblock shaken.
= Cf. Muller 383, Scheepers II, 755 and Waller 694. "Weinig Nederlandsche boeken zijn zóó populair geweest als deze bloemlezing van kernspreuken uit de klassieke en nieuwere schrijvers" (Muller).
- Very good, unopened copy.