- Owner's stamp on first blank; occas. trifle waterstained in blank margins. Vellum soiled/ stained.
= Cf. Geerebaert p.145 (ed. 1671). Bound with P.C. HOOFT, Paris oordeel. Tafelspel (Amst., 1703, engr. title-vignette).
- Preliminary leaves sl. waterstained in upper third of page, textpages partly w. sm. waterstain in lower outer corner; new endpapers and blanks; hinges professionally strengthened. Binding sl. soiled; upper outer corners sl. bumped. Very good copy.
= Funck p.375; Schweiger p.681; Brunet IV, p.285. First published: Paris, F. Foppens, 1655. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXXVI.
- Title-p. restored in lower blank margin; occas. sl. foxed and/ or yellowed; the name of Philip Melanchton crossed out on list of contents on verso of title-p. Paper ticket at foot of spine.
= This ed. not in Schweiger.
Idem. De L. Sergii Catilinae coniuratione, de Bello Iugurthino, historiae. Ibid., idem, 1553, 261,(26)p., woodcut printer's mark, contemp. limp vellum.
- Occas. (sl.) foxed/ (sl.) stained/ soiled; title-p. sl. (dust)stained/ soiled. Binding in poor condition.
= Not in Schweiger.
- Title-p. sl. dam. and trimmed to the woodcut border; illegible old owner's entry and date ("MDCXLI") on title-p. and on upper pastedown; lacks free endpapers; occas. contemp. annots. in margin. Vellum duststained; backcover stained; top of spine trifle dam.
= Rare edition, only one copy found (in the Universitätsbibliothek Basel). Not in the usual reference works.
Idem. Coniuratio Cataliniae. Bellum Iugurthinum. Historiarum libri à Lud. Carrione collecti & restituti (...). Ed. Aldus Manutius, Cydr. à Popma, & Lud. Carrionis. Lyon, P. Roussin, 1628, 500,(44)p., contemp. vellum, 16mo.
- Two pages duststained in outer margin (incl. text) and a few scattered sm. stains in margins; old annot. on upper pastedown and on lower endpaper; three quires sl. wormholed in lower blank inner margin.
= Not in the usual reference works.
- Bookplate and sm. ticket on upper pastedown; contemp. owner's entry on title; a few lvs. waterstained. Chipped at foot of spine.
= Willems 321 note; Rahir 293. The first of two 1629 editions, this one w. correct pagination of p.63.
Juvenalis, D.I. and Persius Flaccus, A. Satyrae. Ed. Th. Farnaby. Amst., J. Blaeu, 1668, 189p., engr. title, contemp. calf w. gilt spine, sm. 8vo.
- Two contemp. owner's entries on title. Binding worn due to acid biting.
- Catalogue clipping mounted on htitle; library stamp in blank margin engr. title; upper and inner margin waterstained throughout; final 5 lvs. inner margin repaired/ strengthened.
= Graesse VI, p.348; Ebert II, 20860; Schweiger p.912: "Gesuchteste Ausg. des Lipsius" ; Dibdin II, p.397: "Harwood speaks highly of the magnificence and beauty of the volume, and of the excellent notes of Lipsius: the Bipont editors call it "Edit. rara et nitida"."
- First few lvs. sl. wormholed in lower blank margin; partly yellowed/ browned/ vaguely waterst. Vellum soiled; upper joint splitting; extremities sl. rubbed.
= With portraits of Greek philosophers and poets, i.a. Thales, Solon, Socrates, Xenophon, Euclides, Plato, Aristoteles, Zeno, Pythagoras, Empedocles, Epicurus, Homerus, Aeschylus and Sappho.
- Without the prize. Binding sl. dustsoiled and sl. rubbed; lacks ties.
= Schweiger p.980; on the binding: Spoelder 5.
- Binding duststained, otherwise very fine.
= Leendertz 140; Geerebaert CXXXVII 5.II.b.
- Occas. annots./ underlining in red/ pink/ black ink; hinges weak; new endpapers.
= Geerebaert 137, 3. The first Dutch translation of the Annales, Historiae and 2 smaller works.
- Title rubbed and vaguely waterst.; some underlining at the beginning; pastedowns detached. Upper corner frontcover stained.
= Geerebaert CXXXVIII, 10; this ed. not in Schweiger.
= Schweiger I, p.320.
- Without the prize. Vellum sl. soiled. = Cf. Schweiger p.323; not in Dibdin. On the binding: Spoelder 5.
- Slightly waterst. in lower outer corner; a few pages. w. contemp. scribbles/ annots. in sepia ink. Vellum sl. soiled. = Cf. Schweiger p. 343.
Nepos, C. De vita excellentium imperatorum. Ed. C. Cellarius. Cassovia, 1762, (12),347,(34)p., contemp. calf, sm. 8vo.
- Waterst. along lower margin; occas. sl. wormholed; some contemp. annots on pastedowns and endpapers. Binding sl. nibbled/ wormholed.
- Sl. yellowed/ foxed; a few lvs. sl. browned.
= A rare work showing the most important nobility and heroes of Christianity according to the author, Nicolaes de Clerck. Showing 82 portraits along with genealogical information on each person. Interestingly also showing explorers, navigators and the rulers of countries in the "New World", i.a. Christopher Columbus, Ferdinand Magallen, King Athahualpa Inca of Peru and Emperor Motussuma of Mexico. Sabin 13637. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXXVI.
- New endpapers; title doubled. = Haitsma Mulier/ Van der Lem 111a.
Adriani, H. and Aubert le Mire, H. Legende oft d'leven, wercken, dood ende miraculen ons liefs Heeren Iesu Christi, ende vande alderheylichste Moeder Godts ende Maghet Maria, ende alle Godts lieve Heylighen. Antw., H. Verdussen, 1609, 3rd ed., (4),50,396,(3 [of 4]) lvs., engr. title, num. woodcut ills., contemp. calf, folio.
- Lacks leaf Xxx2; sl. yellowed and occas. waterstained; pastedowns loose. Modern letterpiece.
= BCNI 5430.
BOUND WITH: Lambrecht, M. Historia Ecclesiastica, oft Kerckelicke Historie, om claerlijcken te sien de eendrachticheyt vande Heylige Catholijcke Kercke des Heeren Jesu Christi (...). Ibid., idem, 1609, (8),161,(7 (of 14))p.
- Lacks final 4 index lvs.
- Vol. 1 lacks htitle (as usual); lacks the portrait and the plan; general map w. closed tear at inner margin and strengthened spot at lower end of one fold; plates occas. sl. foxed. Backstrips dam./ worn.
= Beddie 1545; Sabin 16251; Cox I, p.63; Howgego C175; Forbes 69 ("This edition had a very wide circulation and is notable for its extensive index"); Hill 362: "An abridgment of Captain Cook's third voyage. This octavo edition is not to be confused with the second edition, which did not appear until 1785. This abridged account is preferred by some readers because, the nautical and technical parts having been deleted, the work reads more like an adventure." "Cook discovered the Hawaiian Islands on this, his third voyage of discovery, and named them the Sandwich Islands in honor of his patron, the Earl of Sandwich." (Judd/ Lind p.1). SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXXVII.
- The leaf w. "A description of the cuts" misbound, and w. old annots. in (strengthened) margins giving the relevant pages in the various vols.
= All PLATES BEFORE LETTERS. First edition, published in the same year as the second, recognizable by the continuous pagination between vol. 2 and 3. Our copy with the Chart of the Straights of Magellan in vol.1 (not contained in earliest copies of the first edition). Cox I, p.19; Hill 782; Sabin 30934; Beddie 648; Henze II, p.713; Kroepelien 535; Smith p.46f. Contains the official account of Cook's first voyage commanding the Endeavour, edited from his journals by Hawkesworth and containing in the preceding sections the official accounts of the voyages of Byron, Wallis and Carteret. Hawkesworth's compendium contains the cream of English exploring voyages of the mid-18th century. "Hawkesworth was expected to add polish to the rough narratives of sea men, and to present the accounts in a style befitting the status of the voyages as official government expeditions, intended to embellish England's prestige as a maritime power." (Hill). SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXXVII.
Cook, J. A Voyage towards the South Pole and Round the World. Performed in His Majesty's Ships the Resolution and Adventure, In the Years 1772, 1773, 1774, and 1775. Ibid., iidem, 1777, 1st ed., 2 vols., XL,378; (8),396p., engr. frontisp. portrait, 63 (of 64) (fold.) engr. maps/ charts/ plates/ portraits after W. HODGES a.o., unif. bound with the preceding work, 4to.
- Vol. 1 lacks the large folding map of the Southern hemisphere; 17 plates with imprint in lower margin shaved or lacking; 2 plates w. with margins shaved (affecting decorative borders); the portait of Otago w. sm. brown stain near dagger above his head; sm. tear at lower end of inner margin (reaching 2,5 cm. into image). Paper over covers sl. chafed. Otherwise a fine and clean copy.
= First edition of the official account of Cook's second voyage, published when he was away on his third voyage. Sabin 16245; Beddie 1216; National Maritime Museum London 577; Henze II p.713; Hocken p.15; Hill 358; Cox I, p.59; Mendelssohn p.377; O'Reilly-Reitman 390; Kroepelien 206; PMM 223; Smith p.53f. "The succes of Cook's first voyage led the Admiralty to send him on a second expedition, described in the present work, which was to circumnavigate the globe as far south as possible in search of any southern continents. Cook proved there was no "Terra Australis" which supposedly lay between New Zealand and South America, but became convinced that there must be land beyond the ice fields. Further visits were made to New Zealand, and on two great sweeps Cook made an astonishing series of discoveries and rediscoveries including Easter Island, the Marquesas, Tahiti and the Society Islands, Niue, the Tonga Islands, the New Hebridies, New Caledonia, Norfolk Island and a number of smaller islands (...) William Hodges was the artist with the expedition" (Hill). SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXXVI.
- Occas. foxed (esp. first quire and the portrait). Frontcover and first quire loose; binding worn.
= The first edition of the first English biography of Cook.
- Lacks the plate of the "Representation of the Heivah"; sl. fingersoiled and foxed; offsetting from plates on the text; bookplate (of Ruth Graham) on upper pastedown. Frontcover reattached; binding worn along extremities.
= The rare first edition. Forbes 33, State B (no priority); Lada-Mocarski 32; Hill 1453: "This narrative anticipated the government's authorized account by two years. All the journal kept on board were claimed by the Admiralty, thus the author remained strictly anonymous. The text, especially as regards details of Cook's death, differs considerably from other accounts.".