- Lacks 2p. of bookseller's cat. Upper hinge broken; receding waterst. in margins.
= First Dutch edition of Fielding's parody of S. Richardson's Pamela (1740). Waller 543; Buisman 569.
- First 3 textlvs. top margin strengthened w. paper on verso; owner's entry on title-p. ("F.C. Krahmer"); sl. foxed throughout; occas. thumbed/ dust-/ water/ inkstained mainly in blank margins.
= From the collection of L.M.A. Buijnsters-Smets (her bookplate on first blank). Waller 622; De Vries 307; cf. Scheepers II, 752 (on 1st ed. 1716). Rare.
- Joints weak; modern owner's entries on first free endpaper (Prof. Dr. G. Kuiper; P.J. Verkruijsse(?)); modern annots. on a few pages of the introduction. Rare.
- Partly (sl.) foxed/ browned; owner's entry on title-p. Boardedges sl. rubbed.
= Scheepers I, 522: "Zeldzaam". Rare Dutch treatise on Pope Joan, a legendary female pontiff said to have reigned between 855-858. Bookplate of Jean Grandjean Perrenod Comtesse on upper pastedown.
- (Sl.) foxed. Extremities (sl.) worn.
= Mateboer 92; Buisman 776. The "prototype" of all Dutch arcadian novels, interspersed with many interesting articles on witchcraft, magic, Dutch history, East Indies, Dutch folklore etc.
- Final 8 quires stained in upper margin, partly affecting the text; occas. sl. yellowed. Otherwise fine.
= Much expanded second, and first authorized edition. Nijhoff/ Van Hattum 138 (calls for a blank between the text and the errata leaf, which is present in our copy); Simoni H-168; Waller 826; Scheepers I, 108: "Dichterlijke beschrijving van de buitenplaats "de moffeschans" bij Terneuzen en van het dagelijksche leven aldaar, door Pieter de Hond, geb. te Vlissingen, overl. in 1621 of 1622."; Nagtglas II, p.404-407: "Even buiten Terneuzen lag een stuk grond bekend als de Moufenschans (...). Die verlaten grond werd verkocht aan den Burgemeester Serlippens, een vertrouwd vriend van Hondius, die zestien jaren bij hem inwoonde en aan den predikant deze plek afstond voor den aanleg van zijn beroemden tuin. Hier leefde deze op ruimen voet en met onbekrompen gastvrijheid (...)". SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE CXXXVI.
- All vols. w. owner's entry on (h)title; occas. sl. foxed. Bindings trifle rubbed. A good set. = Rare.
- Partly sl. wormholed/ (water)stained. Good/ fine copy.
= Cf. Waller 878 and De Vries 421 (both ed. 1740). Very nice and early edition of this plea for moderation of torture, based on Graevius' Tribunal reformatum. At the end a special extra chapter: "Gevoelen van Thomas Morus, Dat dievery met de dood niet behoort ghestraft te worden (...)."
- Binding sl. rubbed; corner sl. worn.
= Waller 923; Muller 526; Scheepers II, 833; Van der Steur, cat. 25, L2107.
Weyerman, J.C. Den Persiaansche zydewever, Demokriets en Herakliets, Brabandsche voyagie, de Hollandsche zinlykheyt, den Antwerpsche courantier, en de gehoornde broeders, benevens eenige uyt het Grieks vertaalde gezangen van Anakreon, voorzien met de sleutel van het geheele werk. N.pl., "Gedrukt voor den autheur, en zyn te bekomen by de voornaamste boekverkopers in de Hollandsche steden", n.d. (1727), 5 parts in 1 vol., engr. frontisp. by A.V.L.B. after C. TROOST, 20th cent. plain cl., 4to.
- Num. annotations in pencil in margins of the dedication; occas. some faint dampstaining in upper outer corner.
= Scheepers II, 301. Rare with the allegorical frontispiece.
- Occas. sl. foxed. Bindings sl. worn along extremities. Otherwise a good set.
= Buisman 1072; Saalmink II, p. 1749; De Vries 159. The most popular work by Dutch Enlightenment author W. Kist (1758-1841).
- Bookplate on upper pastedown. Spine-ends sl. dam.; sl. rubbed along extremities. Good/ fine copy.
= The rare first Dutch edition, not traced in the reference works (cf. Waller 1031, for the ed. Amst., 1741).
- (Sl.) foxed/ soiled ((sl.) affecting title-p. and plates). Binding worn; backstrip dam.
= Arpots 63. With 4 nice plates, one of which shows the Burcht in Leyden and two others with skating scenes.
Laurenberg, P. Het Hernieuwde en Verbeterde Acerra philologica. Dat is: zes honderd Nutte en Gedenkwaardige geschiedenissen, Als ook zeer vermakelyke Redenkavelingen. Ed. J. Hajenius. Amst., Janssoons van Waesberge, 1734, 3rd ed., (10),728p., engr. frontisp., contemp. vellum.
- Apparently never bound with the final 28 pages (Toegift and Bladwyzer). Partly (sl.) waterst. in margins.
= Rare edition. Cf. Muller 411; Scheepers II, 760 (ed. 1675); Waller 1010.
- Bookplate of Raymond van Marle on upper pastedown; pagination of prelim. pages erratic, but complete (as in Bodemann). Covers and joints sl. rubbed. Contents fine.
= Bodemann 177.1. Rare, this ed. not in STCN.
Gellert, C.F. Fabelen in III deelen. Utr., J. van Schoonhoven & Comp., 1775, 3 parts in 1 vol., (4),361,(7)p., engr. title w. portrait vignette, contemp. gilt calf w. mor. letterpiece, sm. 8vo.
- One quire loosening. A fine copy. = Landwehr F106. This ed. not in the usual reference works.
- Occas. sl. foxed. Otherwise fine.
= Buisman 1306; Arents 322; cf. Rius 482 (1st Engl. ed., London, 1752). Rare.
- Bindings a few small rubbed spots. A good copy, attractively bound.
= Gay/ Lemonnyer I, p.906; Zischka p.261; Zaunmüller p.142: "Bringt viel Material über Vulgärsprache des 17. Jahrhunderts."
- Vellum dam. at top of spine.
= Interesting fictitious posthumous dialogues of famous people. Contains conversations between i.a. Louis XI and Sultan Zizim (Cem Sultan).
- Lacks first free endpaper; upper pastedown w. dam. spot. Otherwise fine.
= Scheepers I, 514 ("zeer zeldzaam"); Van der Haar M135. Extensively commented very rare 2nd Dutch edition (first 1692) of the Alcoranus franciscanorum (16th century), a paraphrase of Erasmus Albert's refutation of Barth. Albizzi's Liber conformitatum sancti Francisci cum Christo (1399).
- Later bibliographical annots. on verso first free endpaper; owner's entry ("Schotel") and identification of the author on title-p. A good/ fine copy.
= From the library of Jan Borms (stamp on final blank and lower pastedown). The second edition (first 1651) of this collection of libertine poetry. Scheepers I,127: "(...) gedenkschriften van zijn liederlijk leven te Rome, met een curieuse inleiding, waarin libertijnsche ongebondenheid wordt aangeprezen en verdedigd. Het werk werd dadelijk na het verschijnen verboden en verbrand." Rare. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE CXXXVI.
- Bookplate and contemp. annot./ owner's entry on upper pastedown and verso first free endpaper. Good/ fine copy.
= Landwehr, Emblem and fable books F213; Scheepers II, 892.
- Bookblock sl. trimmed (at the beginning occas. nearly reaching text); occas. sl. stained and fingersoiled. Lacks backstrip.
= De Vries 441 (13th ed. Antw.); cf. Muller 599; Waller 1352; Landwehr 660; De Vries, Emblemata 194; cf. De Backer/ Sommervogel VI, 929; cf. Praz p.459; not in Buisman. "Dit werk van den "Vlaamschen Cats" was bijna even populair in Noord- als in Zuid Nederland (...)." (Muller).