- Backstrip dam./ chipped at top of spine.
- Remnants of former bookplate on upper pastedown. Spine and corners sl. rubbed. A fine copy.
= Bound for Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen (1792-1849), Queen of the United Kingdom and wife to William IV, with an AUTOGRAPH MONOGRAMMED DEDICATION in pen and ink on first free endpaper: "For Anna & Aurelia from their (?) Aunt, A.D. 1839". Binder unknown. With the bookplate of G.H. (Georges Hugnet?) on verso first free endpaper.
- First free endpaper w. contemp. dedication. Extremities sl. rubbed.
= Clasp w. nice cut-out clover design and engr. decorations reminiscent of rocaille. Catches engr. in the same style.
- Contents trifle foxed. Covers chafed/ dam.
- Lacks the pencil. Otherwise fine. = SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE C.
- Silk sl. age worn. Top of spine chipped.
AND 2 other ballbooks, both 2nd half 19th cent., i.a. one bound in black lacquer binding w. silver gilt floral decoration in centre of frontcover and along margins, 9x6 cm., leather spine, interior lined w. purple moiré silk and w. loosely inserted booklet in matching silk, a.e.g. (lacks the pencil, otherwise fine).
- Bookplate on upper pastedown. Joints weak at spine-ends; top of spine sl. worn.
= With pencil annot. attributing the fine binding to L.-A. Boyet (1685-1733).
- Both covers w. dam. spots from acid-biting (sl. affecting gilt border and central ornament); spine-ends and 1 corner restored w. leather. Owner's entry and stamp on first free endpaper. Nevertheless a desirable copy in a rare and remarkable binding.
= Large paper copy. Storm van Leeuwen (IIA, p.448) mentions a copy of the same work with ident. binding (C 1245/ fig. 182) that "may have been a present given by the authorities of the island of Voorne, bound by order of the publisher, Pieter van Waesberge." On the work, see Fockema Andreae, Overzicht oud-Ned. rechtsbronnen p.107.
- Spine-ends sl. worn; corners showing. A good/ fine copy.
= Bound by royal bindery B.-L. Deflinne (Tournai) for Van Ewyk (gilt text on frontcover "présenté à monsieur Van Ewyk"). Cf. Koninklijke Bibl., 187 K 14 (same binding and work, bound for King William I of the Netherlands).
- Contents foxed, otherwise fine. Covers w. some tiny scratches; corners, joints and spine-ends (sl.) worn.
= SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE C.
- Both titles w. sm. owner's stamp ("A. Eygenraam");Bindings sl. rubbed/ worn along extremities; 1st vol. frontcover w. 2 dam. spots (each ±2x2cm.) and on backcover the gilding of the outer border is sl. smudged; 2nd vol. frontcover w. 2 sm. dam. spots and backcover w. 1 dam. corner piece (due to burning?).
= Possibly bound in Suenonius Mandelgreen's Bindery, three tools were identified r.II , r.xv and one closely resembling t8 (see Storm van Leeuwen IIIIB, p. 623ff). The ornament of the flaming crown however is found at the Curve Tool Bindery in The Hague (see Storm van Leeuwen IIA, p.161). SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE CII.
- Small (worm?)hole at foot of spine, not affecting the contents of the book. Slipcase worn along extremities. Otherwise a very fine copy.
= Signed "Bound by Zaehnsdorf 1896" at the foot of the turn-in of the front cover, and with their oval quality mark in gilt on the lower moiré silk pastedown. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE C.
- Occas. sl. browned. Fore-edge w. 3 sm. inkstains; extremities sl. rubbed. = Binder unidentified.
- Backcover sm. waterstain in lower margin.
= Attractively bound rules of the Walloon Orphanage in Amsterdam. The unnumbered pages at the end consist of the "Table des Chapitres" (1p.) and the "Noms des Régens de la Maison des Orphelins Walons d'Amsterdam, depuis son Etablissement, le 29e Mai 1631, jusqu'à présent; & leurs années de Service" (8p.) and the "Noms des Régentes de la Maison des Orphelins (...)" (7p. incl. 1 manuscript page w. additions until 1795).
- Sl. yellowed and foxed; tear in one leaf closed w. tape; bookblock sl. warped. Binding dustsoiled; two ties broken.
= Spoelder 13.
AND 1 other vellum schoolprize binding of Amsterdam (gilt faded).
- Some browning.
= With printed schoolprize w. manuscript entry to "Henrico Petro de Paund", dated 1789. Spoelder 1.
- From the Cornelius J. Hauck Collection, Cincinnati, Ohio (bookplate on upper pastedown).
= Very fine example of an Amsterdam VOC-binding in a rare variant, w. use of the Amsterdam coat of arms instead of the VOC-A monogram, not recorded by Landwehr, VOC (cf. p.XXVIIIf). SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE CI.
- Five blank pages w. traces of former tipping in along the thin red line. Spine-ends restored; lower corners sl. worn.
= Fine example of an Amsterdam VOC-binding w. use of the VOC-A monogram. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE CI.
- Sl. foxed. Gilding on backcover rubbed/ sl. worn off; joints rubbed.
= SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE CI.