- Section cut out from title-p. (restored); upper hinge weak; contents w. (extensive) contemp. owner's annots. Bookblock read out of shape, affecting backstrip; vellum soiled/ stained.
- Bookplate on upper pastedown; contemp. owner's entry on title ("G. ab Arnhem").
= Udalricus Zasius of Fribourg (1461-1536), influential jurist. Rare edition.
- Sl. foxed. Covers chafed; spine sl. dried and cracking; letterpiece dam.
= Arpots 63. With 4 nice plates, one of which shows the Burcht in Leyden and two others showing skating scenes.
ADDED: 1 odd vol.
- Trifle foxed. = Rare Orangist publication.
AND 4 others, i.a. IDEM, Het verneedert en verheerlykt 's Graavenhaage, eeuwzang (Amst., 1776, engr. title, sl. later wr.) and IDEM, De zeetriumph der Bataafsche vryheid, op Doggersbank bevochten (...). Eerste stuk (Amst., 1782, engr. plates, contemp. wr. Vol. 1 (of 2) only).
- Bookplate on upper pastedown.
- Lacks frontisp.; pastedowns detached/ lacking; one leaf corner torn off, just affecting text; first/ final blanks sl. mouldy. Binding sl. worn.
= Tiele 959; Cat. NHSM p.255; Tobler p.91/ 92; Röhricht p.232/ 233. Parker, Books to build an empire, p.86: "(...) George Sandys, who divided his account of eastern travels into four books describing Greece and Turkey, Egypt, the Holy Land, and the Mediterranean Islands. This is a painfully detailed picture of the eastern Mediterranean area (...)". The 2nd Dutch edition, first published in England in 1615.
- Title-p. reattached w. tape; sl. waterst. in upper margin.
= Rare, only 2 copies in STCN. Waller 304-306 (other imprints).
- Trifle foxed. = Knuttel 2576.
- Title-p. duststained; contents sl. dogeared (also applies to the bound-with works). Lacks binding.
= On the large bird's eye view by Romeyn de Hooghe, see F.M. 672b and Romeyn de Hooghe the etcher p.203, 5th state (of 5).
BOUND WITH 4 others related: Kemper, G. Eeuwtriomf ter vierde inwydings=feest van Leidens Hooge-schoole; voor den jaare MDCCXV (...). Ibid., Janssoons vander Aa, 1725, 30p. Schróder, J. Ter gedachtenis van het driemaal vyftig jaarig Jubelfeest der Leidsche Akademie (...). Ibid., I. Severinus, 1725, 16p., engr. printer's mark, frontisp. by F. BLEYSWYCK. Ryser, S. Vyftig-jarige gedachtenis Van het Instellen der Hoogeschole te Leiden, Ingewyd den 8. February 1575. Ten derden male geviert den 8. February 1725. Ibid., A. Kallewier, 1725, 12p., engr. title-vignette by F. BLEYSWYCK. Vryhoff, H.G. Gezang op het derde vyftig Jarige Jubelfeest, van de stichting der Leidsche Akademie. Ibid., J. van Kerckhem, 1725, 7p.
= SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE CXX.
- Library ticket in upper right corner of title; sl. foxed.
= Both publications written on occasion of the second centenary of Leyden University, Febr. 8th 1775. Poggendorff I, 851.
- Bookblock shaken. Backcover lacks portion of vellum along outer edge.
= Van Doorninck/ De Kempenaer, p.249; Haitsma Mulier/ Van der Lem 222.
ADDED: another by the same.
- Lacks 1 portrait; vague stamps on title-p.; a few pages stained in blank corners; one portr. a small rust hole; a few small, unobtrusive tears on folds of plan. Vellum sl. warped.
= Willems 237.
- Lacks years 1807 and 1808.
= Comprising: B. DE MOOR, Leidens Ontzet Geviert op den jaarlijksen Dank-dag (...) (J. Hasebroek); P. VAN DEN BOSCH, Redevoering, gedeeltelijk in digtmaat, by gelegenheid van het tweede eeuwgetyde van het Beleg en Ontzet der stad Leyden (P. van der Eijk and D. Vijgh); C. STRESO, Kerkreden op het Tweede Eeuwfeest van Leydens Ontzet (...) (S. and J. Luchtmans); F. HALEWIJN, Vaerzen op het Tweede Eeuwgetijde van Leydens Verlossinge (C. van Hoogeveen); J.H. BEWEEZEN, Vriendschapsplicht (J. van Tiffelen); A. WIJNBEEK, Leydens ramp en zegen, in drie herderszangen (Heyligert en Hoogstraaten); Vreugdezang, op het tweede eeuwsfeest van het Ontzet der Stad Leyden (A. Fokke, engr. frontisp.); P. VAN SCHELLE, Leyden van het beleg der Spanjaarden verlost (J. le Mair, H. Mostert and P. Delfos); Leyden tot dankbaarheid verwekt op het Tweede Eeuw-gety der heuchelyke ontzettinge (J. van Tiffelen); J. LE FRANC VAN BERKHEY, Het verheerlijkt Leyden, bij het tweede eeuwgetijde van deszelfs ontzet (...) (H. Coster, Heyligert and Hoogenstraaten, etched title, fold. plate, 3 portraits. Arpots 215); Het feestvierend Leyden; eeuwspel (C. van Hoogeveen); E. VAN BOOREN, Het tweehondertste jubels vreugt verhaal (n.publ.); Beschrijving der plegtigheden en vreugdebedrijven bij het tweede eeuwgetijde van de verlossing der stad Leyden (C. van Hoogeveen, 1775, 3 (fold.) engr. plates).
AND 1 other similar, bound unif. w. the above.
- Owner's entry on title-p. Hinges starting; corners worn.
(Girard de Villethierry, J.). La vie des riches et des pauvres, ou les obligations de ceux qui possédent les biens de la terre, ou qui vivent dans la pauvreté, prouvées par l'Ecriture & par les saints Pères. Paris, C. Robustel, 1700, (28),504,(8)p., woodcut printer's mark, contemp. calf w. gilt spine, sm. 8vo.
- Owner's entry on title. Joints starting; top and foot of spine damaged.
AND 1 other.
- Partly (vaguely) waterst.; bookplate on upper pastedown.
= Rare work by German Catholic controversialist Caspar Schoppe (1576-1649), largely based on G.J. Vossius's popular Latina grammatica.
- Stripped copy: lacks 10 maps and plates. General title trimmed to the borderline and fully laid down; both St. Helena views doubled; first and final few quires waterstained in outer margin; otherwise partly yellowed/ sl. browned and occas. dampstained in outer margin; outer blank margins from page 263 onwards sl. wormholed; a few leaves w. stain or smudge in the text. Sold w.a.f.
= Despite the defects, this is still a valuable textual source for the history of the discovery of the world and it is also a copy of the rare first edition of the English translation of Jan Huyghen van Linschoten's Itinerario (the 2 fold. maps of St. Helena are present in the 2nd state with the page numbers added). See Alden/ Landis 598/ 57; Borba de Moraes 488; Lust 340. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE CXXI.
- Owner's ticket on upper pastedown; marginal annots. on page 148 and 149; sl. (finger)soiled; a few (marginal) waterstains. Binding (badly) rubbed; corners showing; joints starting at spine-ends.
= ''Arithmetician from the second half of the seventeenth century, whose arithmetic books remained in use until the mid-nineteenth century and were reprinted many times. His publications also included Zeedelijk rijmwerk, 1699 (NNBW II, col. 824). Active by 1658. died before 1721'' (Hoogendoorn, p. 588).
- Upper hinge broken but holding on cords. Rebacked w. use of orig. backstrip; extremities sl. worn. Good/ fine copy.
= Rare early (almost) entirely lithographed Dutch book. Cf. Lithografie in Nederland (De Boekenwereld 15/1, 1998), p.44-56.
- Both vols. w. two bookplates on upper pastedown, otherwise contents fine. Spine-ends chipped.