77 2744 Roquefeuil C de

77 2744 Roquefeuil C de

77 2744 Roquefeuil C de

- Both vols. bookplate on upper pastedown; vol. 1 possibly lacks prelim. text leaf; occas. (sl.) foxed. Joints split(ting)/ worn; backstrips lack sm. portion; vol. 2 frontcover loose(ning).

= Sabin 73149; Lada-Mocarski 86; Forbes 569; cf. Hill 1483 (English ed.). The only account of the third French circumnavigation, containing important information on i.a. the American (North) West coast, Alaska and Hawaii. Without official government sanction, it was probably printed in a small number of copies. "In the preface the editor mentioned that the present work had been written three years ago (in 1820) but that the author, due to various circumstances and to certain timidity, refrained from having it printed. It was only because of his undertaking another long sea voyage that he agreed to leave it to his family, allowing them to use it in the way they wished. It was one of his brothers who took charge of the publication of the Journal without making any changes whatsoever. Its wording is exactly what was written on board the Bordelais" (Lada-Mocarski). SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE CX.

77 2745 Rotgans L

= Also comprises "Boerekermis".

77 2746 Rotgans L

- Occas. trifle foxed. A fine copy. = From the library of J.W. Six.

77 2747 Rotgans L

- Trifle foxed; frontisp. sl. yellowed. Covers sl. warped.

= Landwehr, Romeyn de Hooghe as book illustrator 92.

77 2748 Rotterdam Smits D

- Lacks mor. letterpiece; top of spine dam. Contents very fine; large paper copy.

77 2749 Rousseau J J

- Table w. sm. tear, not affecting text. Corners bumped; vol.4 top of spine dam. Contents fine.

= Dufour 388.

77 2750 Russia Castéra J H de

77 2750 Russia Castéra J H de

- Hole in frontispiece in 2nd vol. closed w. paper on verso. Backstrips worn. Good/ fine copy.

= First major biography of Catherine the Great, written by one of the historiographers at Catherine's court in St. Petersburg. Cat. (...) des Russica C184; Hayn/ Gotendorf III, p.524; Gay/ Lemonnyer III, p.1335.

77 2751 Russia The Costume of the Russian Empire illustrated by a series of seventy three engravings

77 2751 Russia The Costume of the Russian Empire illustrated by a series of seventy three engravings

77 2751 Russia The Costume of the Russian Empire illustrated by a series of seventy three engravings

77 2751 Russia The Costume of the Russian Empire illustrated by a series of seventy three engravings

- First and final blanks sl. foxed and yellowed; some sl. offsetting from plates on opposite lvs. Binding trifle rubbed along extremities. A fine and splendidly bound copy.

= Cat. (...) des Russica 1187; Lipperheide Kaa 18; Colas 702; Hiler p.192; Abbey, Travel 244. The fine plates are based on those in J.G. GEORGI, Beschreibung aller Nationen des Russischen Reichs (...) (St. Petersburg, 1776-1780), but slightly enlarged. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE CX.

77 2752 Russia Kort waerachtigh Verhael van de bloedige Rebellye in Moscovien aen gerecht door den grooten Verrader en Bedrieger Stenko Rasin Donsche Cosack Nevens sijne Sententie die hem

- Library stamp on title-p.; bookplate on upper pastedown; sl. yellowed and foxed.

77 2753 Russia Pallas P S

- Final endpaper torn. Binding sl. worn; upper joint dam./ splitting.

= Nissen, ZBI 3076; Cox I, p.199: "Pallas was one of the savants chosen by the St. Petersburg Academy to carry on the work of examining the resources of the far distant parts of the Russian Empire. He left St. Petersburg in 1768 and spent full six years investigating various districts of Siberia - the Urals, the Caspian, Tobolsk, Lake Baikal, the Lower Volga, etc. His reports on the geology, fauna and flora are of great scientific value."

77 2754 Russia and Scandinavia Salmon T

- Usual occas. browning/ foxing.

= Cat. des Russica 1376; Tiele 1033. With extensive descriptions of Russia (incl. a plan of St. Petersburg), Sweden, Denmark, Norway and the Arctic. Including details about whaling, illustrated by 2 plates (depicting Zorgdrager's Greenland bowhead whale and the sperm whale (Ingalls 374)).

77 2755 Ryssen C van

- Bookplate on upper pastedown.

77 2756 Saint Évremont C M de St Denis de

- Both vols. bookplate on upper pastedown; contemp. owner's entry on first free endpaper/ blank. Both vols. spine worn along extremities. Otherwise fine copies.

= LARGE PAPER COPY. Brunet V, p.38; Graesse VI, p.221. From the library of Leyden anatomy and embryology professor and politician J.A.J. Barge (1884-1952).

77 2757 Salmasius C

- Owner's entries (1743 and 1777) on upper pastedown; first final blank w. long old annot. in pen and ink; last part sl. wormholed in lower margin; a few lvs. sl. stained. Manuscript shelfmark on spine.

= Willems 580; Rahir 577. "Imprimé en gros caractères. - Cet écrit se rattache à une polémique bizarre, qui passionna et tint divisés durant des années les plus fameux docteurs de l'église évangélique hollandaise. Le roi Louis XIII, qui portait toute sa chevelure, avait introduit et fait prévaloir la mode des cheveux longs. Cette innovation choqua bon nombre de ministres protestants. (...). Saumaise n'était pas homme à laisser passer une si belle occasion de déployer son érudition. Tout d'abord il se déclara le champion de la liberté des coiffures, et descendit dans l'arène armé du formidable factum dont nous avons transcrit le titre. (...). Tout cette érudition fut dépensée en pure perte. Le public resta indifférent. En dépit des objurgations et des anathèmes, la mode prévalut, et chacun continua à se coiffer à sa guise." (Willems).

77 2759 Schiller F von

77 2759 Schiller F von

77 2759 Schiller F von

77 2759 Schiller F von

- Armorial bookplate on upper pastedown; two contemp. owner's entries and sm. stamp ("G. YORK") on first blank; title sl. yellowed; occas. trifle foxed (as usual). Binding trifle rubbed along extremities; sm. (worm?)hole in upper joint.

= First edition of Schiller's first drama, anonymously published. One of the most sought-after books of classic German literature in a well-preserved and broad-margined copy. With the characteristic features as described by Deneke: the misprints "lansch" and "grossrr" on p. 65 as well as the erroneously paginated pages 69, 163 and 204, also with the uncorrected numbering of the 2nd scene in the 4th act. Very rare. Marcuse 31; Goedeke V, 162, 24; Kat. Deneke 749; Borst 429; Brieger 2102. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE CXI.

77 2760 Scriverius P

- Without vol. 2; lacks 2 text lvs. (H6 and H7); sl. yellowed; frontisp. and a few portraits outer margin cut sl. short; bookplate on upper pastedown.

= Haitsma Mulier/ Van der Lem 436b (note).

77 2761 Scriverius P

- Extensive annots. on the author on verso first blank. Chipped at foot of spine.

= Poetry, accompanied by an extensive biography, of Petrus Scriverius (1576-1660), the writer of the Laure-Crans voor Laurens Coster van Haerlem, Eerste vinder vande Boeck-Druckery, the second part of Ampzing, Beschryvinge ende lof der stad Haerlem, with i.a. a reprint of the poetry concerning the Gutenberg/Coster-question from that work. Not in Bigmore/Wyman, McMurtrie, Ekama.

77 2763 Sels W H

77 2763 Sels W H

77 2763 Sels W H

77 2763 Sels W H

- Contents very fine. First vol. spine broken; 2nd and 3rd vols. frontcover loose(ning); 2nd and 3rd vol. joints weak.

= A remarkable set with beautifully handcoloured plates, undoubtedly by one of the more important colourists of the 18th century. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE CXI.