- Backstrip loosening.
= Claes 167. The sequel to the Staats- en Koeranten Tolk (1732), complete in itself.
- Lacks 1 plate; heraldic plate lacks portion; plan and plates w. (large closed) tears in inner margin/ on folds; 2 lvs. dam. from formerly sticking together; some offsetting from colouring. First vol. upper joint splitting. Sold w.a.f.
= Nijhoff/ Van Hattum 17; Landwehr, Romeyn de Hooghe as Book Illustrator 45. From the library of (Paulus?) Repelaer van Spijkenisse (both vols. w. owner's entry on first blank).
- Good/ fine copy. = Nijhoff/ Van Hattum 246. The first edition.
- Lacks one portrait; one plate lacks corner (w. loss of image) and one plate w. sm. hole; portrait of the author cut sl. short; sl. stained and fingersoiled.
= Nijhoff/ Van Hattum 246. The first edition.
- Hinges broken but holding on cords; extensive annots. on first free endpaper.
= Nijhoff/ Van Hattum 247.
- Backstrip restored spot at foot of spine. = Quérard II, p.527.
AND 1 other: (H.C. DE SENNETERRE), Nouveaux contes des fées (Amst., 1745, engr. title-vignette and ills., later marbled boards w. gilt mor. letterpiece on spine. Title-p. reattached and yellowed).
- Sm. bookplate and contemp. owner's entries (dated 1664) on endpapers. Binding sl. eroded; calf w. a few sm. holes.
- Browned; frayed and sl. soiled along edges.
= Knuttel 10452. F.M. I, 2392b.
- Contents occas. trifle foxed, otherwise fine. All vols. backstrip (sl.) dam./ (partially) detached; corners worn; orig. mor. letterpieces and 1 volume piece lacking.
= The work has been attributed to E. Luzac. cf Goldsmiths' 11660 (id.); cf Kress B.252 (first Dutch ed. 1780-1783); Handel in theorie en praktijk, Econom.-Hist. kat. no.3, 1246; cf Einaudi 4767 (French ed.)
Wolff, C.L.B. de (transl.). Institutions du Droit de la Nature et des Gens, Dans lesquelles, pare une chaine continue, on déduit de la Nature même de l'Homme, toutes ses Obligations & tous ses Droits. (...) Avec des Notes (...) par Mre. Elie Luzac (...). Leyden, Elie Luzac, 1772, 2 vols., X,(2),290; (4),242,(13)p., engr. title-vignette, contemp. unif. blue boards, 4to.
- Both vols. upper hinge broken but hanging on cords; pastedowns and first and final few lvs. sl. waterst./ foxed, otherwise contents fine. Bindings sl. soiled/ worn.
- Both vols. remnants of bookplate on upper pastedown, otherwise fine. Vol. 1 joints starting and foot of spine trifle dam.
= The work has been attributed to E. Luzac. Kress B96; Sabin 79236; Einaudi 4767, Goldsmiths' 11660.
- (Vaguely) waterst. Wr. dam. mainly at backstrip.
= Rare first edition of this work on political economy by Germain Garnier (1754-1821), French economist and translator/ editor of Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations (1776).
(Necker, J.). "J'ai servi le Roi pendant cinq années avec un zèle auquel je n'ai jamais connu de bornes (...)". N.pl., n.publ., n.d. (1787), 107p., modern limp boards, contemp. wr. pres.
- Without title-page (as published). Occas. sl. dampst.
= The correspondence between Jacques Necker, Minister of Finance of Louis XVI, and his successor Charles Alexandre de Calonne, in which Necker justifies his administration and policy against Calonne's attacks.
- Sl. wormholed w. loss of some letters; lacks free endpapers; first/ final lvs. sl. stained/ soiled. Rebacked; dam. spots.
= Very rare, both only 2x in STCV. Ad 1: explanation and overview of exchange rates of major European cities. Hoogendoorn p.253, 2.1. Ad 2: Hoogendoorn p.586, 1.
- Lacks htitle or frontisp. and first free endpaper.
= Provenance Delprat-Veth (bookplate on upper pastedown) and Jan Veth (owner's stamp on upper pastedown). Published in the same year as the 2nd corr. and enl. ed. publ. by P. Scéperus. The preface identifies this edition as follows: "Den Koophandel van Amsterdam door de Waereld zoo vermaard (...) zoodat dese Stad met regt de naam verkregen heeft van het Pakhuys niet alleen van Europa, maar van de gantsche Waereld te zyn. Welk alles te beschryven, een groot Boek zoude uytmaken en dan nog gebrekkelyk voor den dag komen, waaromme wy desen tweede Druk natyds gelegentheyd veranderd aldus beknopt wederom in het ligt geven, ondertussen afwagtende dat fyner en beschaafder Penne de saaken hier inne vervat verder zal voltoyen." Rare edition (no copy traced), probably preceding the edition by P. Scéperus, published in 1704.
- Wrappers trifle duststained.
= "Den Heer G. Wouters Jr." in contemp. hand on frontwr. and w. another illegible annot. on the frontwr. Interesting catalogue for the sale of the following spices: "Notitie van 1843 vaten Nootmuscaat, 367 [vaten] Foelie, 199 [vaten] Amb. kruidnagelen, 1977 Fard. 3 Balen Java-Kaneel en 35 Fard. Ceylon-kaneel".
- Condition varying from sl. waterst./ frayed to (very) waterst./ mouldy and some unbound lvs. w. tears. Sold. w.a.f. Not collated.
= Large run of this periodical on share prices, real-estate prices etc., published 2-3 times a week. The first issue was published in August 1796. Rich source of information on Dutch (and international) economics.
- Fine. = Rare.
Water, W. te. Tweede Eeuw-getyde van de Geloofs-belydenisse der Gereformeerde Kerken van Nederlant, geviert in een Historisch Verhael van Derzelver Opstellers, Goetkeurders, Verdedigers, Beschermers. Gezag, Nuttigheit, Byvoegzelen, en van Derzelver Berispers, en Vyanden. Ibid., P. Gillissen, 1762, (4),XXII,(6),281,(26)p., contemp. vellum.
- Fine. = Van der Haar W46.
- Catalogue clipping attached to upper pastedown w. tape. Binding worn/ dam. (contents fine).
= Pamphlets on the Brabant Revolution against Joseph II of Austria. From the collection of Bob Luza, w. his bookplate on upper pastedown.
Idem. Versaemelinge der brieven van den waeren auteur van Keuremenne. Aen de Heeren Theologanten van de Seminarien van Gend, Brugge, Ipren &c. over het soogenaemt Seminarie-Generael, waer in ontdekt worden alle de heymelyke geschiedenissen voorgevallen ten dien opzigte. Michilsberg, Crab-Ezel, 1788-1790, 8 parts in 1 vol., stipple-engr. frontisp. portrait and 10 (fold.) plates/ ills./ score, contemp. calf w. red mor. letterpiece.
- One textleaf creased. Backstrip cracked; spine-ends and corners worn.
- Pastedowns partly detached. Spine sl. spotted. Otherwise fine.
= Willems 1263; Rahir 1297. Fourth and final Elzevier edition. The first Elzevier edition was published in 1642.
- Upper hinge splitting. Paper ticket on spine. Otherwise fine.
= Willems 392; Rahir 379. Describes the history and actual state of Rhetia or Graubünden.
ADDED: 1 other.
- Lacks htitle; a few lvs. sl. stained. Good/ fine copy.
= Rare ed. of Baardt's adapt. of Flitner, Nebulo nebulonum. Landwehr 53; Praz p.264.