- Scattered library stamps; sl. waterst. in (blank) margin; final few lvs. sl. dam. in right blank margin. Backstrip sl. dam.; extremities sl. worn.
Corrado, P. Praxis dispensationum apostolicarum, ex solidissimo Romanae Curiae stylo (...). Ibid., idem, 1699, (4),401,(39)p., woodcut title-vignette, later hmor., folio.
- Scattered library stamps; first few lvs. sl. stained/ soiled and strengthened in inner margin. Backstrip loosening; extremities sl. worn.
AND 1 other.
- Untrimmed set; occas. sl. yellowed; 1 vol. w. a few plates sl. waterst. in upper (blank) margin; contents otherwise fine and clean. Bindings worn; paper over covers chafed/ worn off.
= Rubens p.1103-1215, 1244-1273; Sabin 62600 (praising the engravings). One of the main sources documenting the history of religion, with extensive descriptions of the Jewish and Roman Catholic faith (incl. the activities of the inquisition), Greek-Orthodox and Protestant churches, Quakers, Anabaptism, Freemasonry, Islam, Buddhism, Chinese and Persian religions, American and African creeds etc. The first vol. i.a. dealing with the rites and customs of the Dutch Jewry in the 17th and 18th century, with fine plates. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE CXXX.
- A few lvs. with (contemp.) underlining and sm. annots. in pen and ink. A fine copy.
= First edition of this work on the various calendar calculations by different people of classical antiquity (Egyptians, Hewbrews, Greek and Romans) by the Dutch philologist and mathematician Philipp Muncker (c. 1652-1682). It also deals with the calculations by Pope Gregory XIII and exams the intercalary days and months in more detail, including the Roman month of Mercedonius. Muncker cites numerous authors along the way, including Censorinus, Cicero, Giglio Giraldi, Bartholomew Keckermann, Macrobius, Paulus Manutius, Ovid, Plutarch, Joseph Scaliger, and Jacques Auguste de Thou. It also contains sections on the calendar reform from the Julian to the Gregorian system.
- Title-p. doubled; heraldic bookplate and auction catalogue clipping on upper pastedown; occas. trifle yellowed. A fine copy.
= Scheurleer I, p.102; Willems 106; Rahir 83; Schweiger p.67; Hoffman I, p.375. Very rare ediiton of these ancient treatises on musical theory. Aristoxenus' Elementa Harmonica, which has been only partly preserved, is considered the oldest surviving work on the subject.
BOUND WITH: Philostratus. Epistolae. Ed. J. Meursius. Ibid., idem, 1616, 24p., woodcut title-vignette.
= Willems 115; Rahir 91; Hoffman III, p.80; not in Schweiger.
- Occas. sl. foxed. = Lowndes I, 325; MGG I,495.
- Sm. portion of upper outer corner of first free endpaper cut off; later owner's entry on first free endpaper; a few scattered vague pencil marks in blank margin; sm. receding brown stain in outer margin of preliminary leaves. Binding trifle rubbed along extremities.
= Dittersdorf's autobiography as dictated to his son.
- "N.52" in red pen and ink on title. Backstrip for the larger part worn off.
= RISM B VI1, p. 410; Eitner V, p.132f; Scheurleer I, p.336. Joachim Hess was organist and carillon player in Gouda and Maassluis. Extremely rare first and only edition of this work.
- Contents fine. Spine-ends and joints trifle worn; corners showing. = Cat. Scheurleer p.176.
- Stamp on title-p.; trifle foxed. Covers waterst.; joints splitting.
= Published in the same year as the first (4to) edition. Eitner VIII,336: "Trotzdem [Rousseau] nie ernsthafte Musikstudien gemacht hatte (...) hing er dennoch der Musik leidenschaftlich an." Rousseau composed a very successful small opera "Le devin du village".
- Corners sl. rubbed. Otherwise a very fine clean and complete copy.
= Provenance: E. Sherard Kennedy (Walton House, Brompton) (bookplate on upper pastedown);' Cat. NHSM p.319, Tiele 3. The second edition, enlarged with views of Batavia and Onrust. The first edition (without text) was published in 1802. Comprises beautiful views in strong impressions of the harbours of i.a. Amsterdam (2x), Rotterdam (2x), Texel, Edam, Middelburg and Hoorn and the 2 often lacking plates depicting whaling and herring fishery. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE CXXXI.
- First and final few lvs. sl. (finger)soiled/ spotted/ frayed; frontisp. w. glue remnants on verso; some offsetting from handcol. on opposite leaf.
= Very rare, only 1x in NCC. Travelogue in 15 letters of an anonymous British military man, who visits the Netherlands and Belgium, and i.a. takes the ferry to Rotterdam, walks to the beach of Scheveningen, explores the anatomical theatre at Leiden University, describes Dutch farmers going to the market in Amsterdam and visits the carnival festivities in Antwerp. With charming plates showing a "Dutch peasant", "Flying bridge", "Shrimp catcher" and "Pulpit in the Netherlands". Cohn 73: "In my copy three of the four etchings were autographed by George Cruikshank as being "Not by me." The fourth was unsigned, and possibly this is his work." SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE CXXIX.
- Occas. sl. (water)stained (mostly in blank margin); vol. 1 engr. title doubled; bound w. several lvs. from another (sl. smaller) copy (but reversed, so that the catchwords no longer correspond); vol. 2 partly sl. wormholed in blank margin. Paper over covers occas. sl. chafed; extremities sl. rubbed. A good set.
= Haitsma Mulier/ Van der Lem 75c; De Wind p. 240-243; Volmuller p.90; De Buck 2294 (ed. 1679-1684). The rare first edition of the much enlarged, complete edition (a 'preliminary' edition was published in 1595 (3 parts) and 1601 (3 parts)). In the 4th vol. an extra engr. title and portrait of Bor (from another copy) are loosely inserted.
- Lacks letterpiece; corners bumped. = Klaversma/ Hannema 289; Van Eeghen/ Van der Kellen p.453 (1st ed.).
- (Tiny/ sm.) wormhole throughout w. occas. very sl. loss of letters; occas. sl. yellowed/ foxed; heraldic bookplate on upper pastedown. Remnants of paper ticket on spine
= Large paper copy. Haitsma Mulier/ Van der Lem 81k: "Volgens het 'Aan den lezer' van Johan Brandt had Gerard Brandt de onderhavige tekst uit zijn Historie der Reformatie weggelaten omdat deze teveel de politiek raakte."; Ter Meulen/ Diermanse 912; cf. De Buck 2545 (3rd ed. 1723).
- Lacks one portrait; 2 lvs. loose(ning); bookplate on upper pastedown. Backcover stained.
= Haitsma Mulier/ Van der Lem 80. The first edition of this continuation of Het ontroerde Nederland by T. van Domselaer.
- A few plates (sl.) foxed, mostly in the blank margins; all vols. w. later pastedowns; vol. 1 w. newspaper on final pastedown. Backstrips of all vols. w. horizontal cracks and sl. worn spine-ends.
= Haitsma Mulier/ Van der Lem 86c; Tiele 893.
- All vols. (sl.) yellowed/ foxed; a few textp. torn; vol.1 partly waterstained.
= Bodel Nijenhuis 95; Haitsma Mulier/ Van der Lem 86c. ("Het gedeelte van Brouërius loopt tot deel 2, p.145, daarna nam Le Long het werk over (zie: 309c.)").
- Contents (occas.) sl. yellowed/ foxed; "Vijfde deel" of first title partly waterstained in lower outer corner. Binding worn/ rubbed; spine-ends dam.
= From the library of T.J. baron Roest van Alkemade (1754-1829), w. his owner's entry and bookplate on upper pastedown. On the first title: Bodel Nijenhuis 95; Haitsma Mulier/ Van der Lem 86c.
- Wormholed (worse at the beginning and end, incl. covers); yellowed/ sl. browned; num. (old.) annots. on first/ final blanks. Binding worn; joints splitting; corners showing.
= Ebert 6384; Haitsma Mulier/ Van der Lem 146d.
- Endpapers browned; title-p. doubled; first 6 textlvs. margins strengthened w. Japanese; p.143-144 erratically bound; occas. sl. stained/ soiled. Joints starting. Despite the defects a good copy.
= Haitsma Mulier/ Van der Lem 187a. The second and best edition. With the often lacking 4 suppl. pages w. 3 woodcuts (bound after p.82). From the library of J.W. Six (his bookplate on upper pastedown).