- Blank margins sl. stained/ foxed throughout; library/ cancellation stamp on verso title. Lacks backstrip; covers rubbed.
= 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).
- Contents fine. Boards sl. scuffed; spine ends chipped; spine sl. cracked.
= Landwehr, Dutch Books w. Col. Plates 286. Not in Lipperheide nor in Colas. Letters by a German army-officer in the service of the Dutch Republic, with much detailed information on Dutch daily-life at the end of the 18th century.
- Some plates sl. fingersoiled in margin; final few lvs. trifle wormholed. Binding sl. rubbed; spine-ends chipped. Otherwise a fine copy.
= Ter Meulen/ Diermanse 749; Van Eeghen/ Van der Kellen 38; Klaversma/ Hannema 585/ 586. The only Dutch edition (first Latin ed. 1657).
- Lacks the engr. title; occas. yellowed; old owner's entry on title-p. (partly crossed-out). Contemp. binding (nicely) restored.
= Edition with newly engraved views by Pieter van den Keere, initially published with 79 views, to which an additional number of 20 views/ maps (listed on p.(12)),were added for bounding in later with the rest (prob. because they were not finished in time). These views are blank on verso. Furthermore, several copies of this edition are known to contain up to 6 extra engravings not mentioned in the list of contents. Our copy contains 14 of the 20 additional views (incl. "Holland" (handcol.), and the rare "Béthune" and "Bourbourg"), and 5 of the 6 extra engravings (the rare "Seylende Windwagen" and "Seylende Ysschuyt", and "De Dam", "De Vismaerct" and "T huys van Mansfeld/ De Piramide"). Guicciardini Illustratus 13; Fontaine Verwey, Uit de Wereld van het Boek II, p.9-31; Haitsma Mulier/ Van der Lem 195b; Tiele 428 (note). SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE CXXXI.
- (Partly) foxed/ browned; title-p. vol. 2 partly lacking; first few lvs. of vol. 1 creased in outer margin; map of Holland and map of ancient Netherlands w. large tear; last few quires of vol. 1 w. waterstain in outer margin.
= Tiele 447; Haitsma Mulier/ Van der Lem 202b. Fine maps of Dutch provinces.
- A few lvs. w. tear; endpapers trifle foxed along edges and w. some annots in ink; bookplate on first free endpaper.
- Partly wormholed, mostly in upper blank margin, but sometimes affecting image or text; all vols. w. bookplate on upper pastedown; occas. sl. browned/ foxed. Binding (sl.) worn along extremities.
- Lacks one portrait (of the author); final ±200 lvs. (sl.) mouldy (rather badly at the end); engr. title cut sl. short and laid down. Rebacked.
= Leendertz 126; Haitsma Mulier/ Van der Lem 235 b and c.
- First 10 textlvs. sl. waterstained. Recased; frontcover lacks sm. strip of vellum over upper edge; top of spine and corners worn/ dam.
= Leendertz 125 and 124, the second and first edition. "Livre célèbre" (Willems).
- Owner's entry and sm. inkstain on title-p.; first 5 lvs. sl. frayed/ soiled. Otherwise a good/ fine copy.
= Haitsma Mulier/ Van der Lem 245. Rare ed. of the first part with impressum Leyden, Ian Maire (only 2 copies in STCN).
- Occas. (sl.) foxed. Frontcover of vol. 23 dam. at corners.
- Bookplate on upper pastedown. Extremities sl. rubbed. A fine, attractively bound copy.
= Famous mystification, ascribed to Regnerus de Graaf, engraver from Haarlem.
- Partly sl. waterst. (incl. title-p.); sl. fingersoiled; bookplate on verso frontwr.
= Klaversma/ Hannema 789; Knuttel 17880.
Korte Schets der tegenwoordige Beroerten in de Vereenigde Nederlanden, over het Afschaffen der Pachteryen, Vornaamlyk in de Provincien van Groningen, Vriesland, Holland en Utrecht (...). N.pl., "Gedrukt voor den Uitgever. En te bekomen te Groningen by Barlinkhof, (...)", 1748, 1st ed., (4),104,52p., fold. engr. plan of Dam Square, contemp. wr.
- Plan loose; occas. trifle foxed; bookplate on verso frontwr. Backstrip dam./ partly lacking; wr. worn.
= Knuttel 17961. Both works on the peasant uprisings ('Pachtersoproer') in the 18th-century Dutch Republic, caused by the dissatisfaction with the system of commercial tax-collection.
- Bookplate on upper pastedown; vellum dam. at lower corner backcover. Otherwise fine.
- Most plates sl. browned; one vol. partly waterstained. Bindings sl. soiled.
- Some occas. mouldy specks, mainly in blank margins. Backstrips sl. rubbed; paper over covers chafed/ dam.
= Large paper copy.
- Occas. waterstained, mostly in blank upper margin, but also affecting about 5 double-p. plates; occas. sl. foxed; lower outer blank corner of one leaf in vol. 2 restored.
= Haitsma Mulier/ Van der Lem 110-l; Klaversma/ Hannema 816-818; Van Eeghen/ Van der Kellen 474. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE CXXXII.
WITH (in uniform binding): Le Clercq, P. Geschiedenissen der Vereenigde Nederlanden (...) Om tot een Vervolg te dienen op de Geschiedenissen der Vereenigde Nederlanden van den Heere Jean Le Clerc. Ibid., D. onder de Linden, 1753, (4),XXXVIII,(6),398p., engr. frontisp., title-vignette, dedication leaf, 2 fold. maps, 1 double-p. plate and 4 portraits.
- A few leaves browned.
= The rare supplement by Pieter Le Clercq. Klaversma/ Hannema 820; Van Eeghen/ Van der Kellen 474.
- Lacks 38 plates and 11 portraits. Vol. 2 sl. stained in lower margin. Bindings sl. stained; vol. 1 backstrip dam.; joints starting. Solf w.a.f.
= Haitsma Mulier/ Van der Lem 110-l; Klaversma/ Hannema 816-818; Van Eeghen/ Van der Kellen 474.
- Both title-p. w. some annots. in col. pencil in blank margins; partly sl. yellowed/ browned; vol. 2 w. some waterstains in upper blank margin. Vol. 1 upper joint dam./ splitting; lacks ties.
= Haitsma Mulier/ Van der Lem 382: "Op de titelpagina's van zijn werk staat Le Petit vermeld als griffier van Béthune, in Artesië. Hij was calvinist en enige jaren in dienst van Oranje, wiens Anjou-politiek hij verdedigde. Na de Franse furie nam hij ontslag. Van 1595-1598 was hij notaris in Middelburg." Hollstein 73-128.
- Yellowed. Spine-ends chipped; worn along extremities; calf over covers very dry.
= Ebert 12250; Haitsma Mulier/ Van der Lem 311d.