2685 - 3623 OLD and RARE BOOKS
- Not collated but apparently complete; sold w.a.f. Bookblock loose; waterst. Binding badly dam.
= Haitsma Mulier/ Van der Lem 396a; De Buck 2299.
(Haemstede, A.C. van). Geschiedenis der martelaren, die om de getuigenis der evangelische waarheid hun bloed gestort hebben (...) niet alleen in de Nederlanden, maar ook in Frankrijk, Engeland (...). Arnh., J.W. and C.F. Swaan, 1868, new ed., VIII,(4),8,1119,(1)p., lithogr. frontisp., ±150 lithogr. plates, contemp. gilt calf, folio.
- First part sl. frayed (1 plate w. large tears); sl. fingersoiled (mostly in blank margin). Joints starting; covers scratched.
= Pijper, Martelaarsboeken, p.34ff.
- First free endpaper partly restored.
= Ad 1: Ekama 427; ad 2: Bodel Nijenhuis 1010; ad 3: Bodel Nijenhuis 1611. Provenance: the collection A.M. van den Broek, with his annots. tipped onto upper pastedown.
- Dam. at foot of spine. = Haitsma Mulier/ Van der Lem 16.
- Upper hinge strengthened. Good/ fine copy. = Haitsma Mulier/ Van der Lem 16.
- Contents fine. Spine-ends and corners worn/ dam.; paper over covers partly chafed.
= Sander 1794; Van de Waal, Drie eeuwen vaderlandsche geschied-uitbeelding I, 210.
- Occas. trifle foxed/ stained; 2 lvs. w. 19th-cent. annot. A fine copy.
= Fine portraits. Haitsma Mulier/ Van der Lem 436d; De Buck p.107-109; De Wind 412.
- Contemp. annot. on lower pastedown; splendid copy.
= Tiele 1010; Haitsma Mulier/ Van der Lem 447a; Bodel Nijenhuis 88. Provenance: the collection A.M. van den Broek, with his annots. tipped onto upper pastedown.
- Three bookplates on verso frontcover; trifle/ sl. foxed; 1 plate loose. Binding rubbed.
= Tiele 1010; Haitsma Mulier/ Van der Lem 447a; Bodel Nijenhuis 88.
- Upper hinge weak; partly sl. waterst. in blank upper margin; w. sl. later dedication/ owner's entry (dated 1690) on first free endpaper. Vellum dam. along overlapping edges; stain and sm. wormhole on back cover.
= Haitsma Mulier/ Van der Lem 450.
- Part 2 only. Map sl. foxed; 1 plate torn w. loss of portion of image; 1 plate w. sm. tear; plates otherwise fine. Partly trifle wormholed in lower blank margin; fore-edge w. sm. inkstains; binding sl. worn/ rubbed.
= Rare first ed. of Strada's work on the second decade of the Dutch Revolt (1578-1590), describing the campaign of Alexander Farnese in the Low Countries. De Backer/ Sommervogel VII, p.1609 (no. 10); Brunet V, p.557; Van der Heijden 7.2. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE CXXXII.
- Fold. map w. sm. tear; final pastedown vol. 1 loose, otherwise contents of both vols. fine. Backstrips (sl.) soiled.
= Willems 1652 (note; printed by Jan Jansson); Van der Heijden, Leo Belgicus 12.1 (copy c).
- The map loosely inserted; bookplate on upper pastedown; partly trifle yellowed. Binding sl. worn along edges.
- Without the engr. divisional titles of part 2 and 3; occas. sl. foxed (incl. plates). Corners showing; upper joint split.
- Lacks first free endpaper; partly sl. waterstained; title-p. browned and w. crossed-out owner's entry in top margin. Corners and spine-ends (sl.) worn.
= Van Doorninck I, 365; De Wind p.476 and p.590ff. At the end: "Liedeken op het Jaer 1572. Gemaeckt door Broer Hendrick van Biesten". Rare first edition.
- Title-p. dam. (and restored); a few leaves w. (ink)stain; occas. cut short in outer margin (affecting glosses and a few of the ills. extending into the outer margin); bookplate on upper pastedown. Joints professionally restored; spine-ends chipped.
= Rare third edition (first published Ghent, 1568 as Den spieghel der Nederlandscher audtheyt). Provenance: ex bibliotheca "B.M. Soctis. Jesu Brugis D.D. Dca Theresia Maviannis 1739" (old annot. in pen in upper margin of title-p.). From the "Bibliothecae Hafflighemensis. 1780" (old annot. in pen in lower margin of title-p.). Bibl. Belg. V65; Haitsma Mulier/ Van der Lem 477a; cf. De Wind p.160-165 ("het zonderlingste boek, 't welk ooit de pers verlaten heeft") and Scheepers I, 9 ("Zeer zeldzaam en hoogst merkwaardig werk"). SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE CXXXIII.
- Later ms. annot. on verso first free endpaper; title for the larger part detached; sl. browned; partly waterstained in lower part; a few lvs. w. inkstain. Dam. spot in upper joint; top of spine worn.
= Rare third edition (first published Ghent, 1568 as Den spieghel der Nederlandscher audtheyt). Bibl. Belg. V65; Haitsma Mulier/ Van der Lem 477a; cf. De Wind p.160-165 ("het zonderlingste boek, 't welk ooit de pers verlaten heeft") and Scheepers I, 9 ("Zeer zeldzaam en hoogst merkwaardig werk").
- (Sl.) foxed throughout; first ±12 lvs. sm. waterstain in upper blank margin; bookplate on upper pastedown. Vellum trifle soiled; sl. warped.
= Haitsma Mulier/ Van der Lem 309b; De Wind p.45-49.
- Occas. sl. foxed (mainly in blank margin). Top of spine chipped; sl. worn along extremities.
= Good/ fine large paper copy of a section of one of the finest and most attractive series of views depicting the Netherlands in the 18th century.
- Lower hinge weak; occas. (sl.) waterst.; partly sl. browned; multiple bookplates on upper pastedown. Sm. tears at top of spine in joints and backstrip; vellum sl. soiled.
= De Wind p.421-424; Haitsma Mulier/ Van der Lem 502. A history of Holland and Zeeland up to 1433, first published in Latin, 1635. Bound with sm. publisher's list.
- Pastedowns occas. detaching (vol. 15 upper pastedown torn/ dam.). A few backstrips sl. soiled. A good/ fine vellum-bound set.
= Haitsma Mulier/ Van der Lem 507f; De Buck 1130.