- Rebound. Title soiled/ stained and w. dam. spot; first 5 lvs. frayed; waterstained throughout, mostly in lower inner and upper blank margin; scattered annots./ underlining in col. pencil.
- Trifle yellowed; bookplate on upper pastedown. = Nijhoff/ Van Hattum 272; De Buck 3890.
- (Sl.) foxed (incl. frontisp.); bookplates on prelim. lvs. Spine-ends chipped; extremities sl. worn.
= LARGE PAPER copy printed on heavy paper. Epic poem on the legendary first king of the Frisians. Scheepers II, 135.
- Owner's entry on title-p.; vague offsetting from the maps and plates on opposite leaf. Neatly rebacked.
= Forbes 657; Hill 546; Grove Day p.44f. Hill p.191, note to 545: "(...) it was the first book written about the Hawaiian Islands and the first serious notice of the islands since Captain Cook's discovery of them forty-eight years earlier. It may be called the first scientific book on Hawaii (...)."
- Library and cancellation stamps on prelim. lvs.; 19th cent. owner's entry on first free endpaper. Upper joint splitting.
BOUND WITH: 9 others by the same, all publ. by M. Cnobbaert, 1666-1672: Vreughden-Bedryf, van 't Grauw ende Mis-noeghen vande Neus-wyse der Stadt Dordrecht over het Pasquilleken van hunnen Predikant ghenoemt den Antwerpschen Uyl (1671); Dordrechtschen Predikant nu Sieck-Meester ende Ziel-Trooster gheworden over eenen armen sieken Uyl die in Doots Noodt light (1671); Redelycke Handelinghe (...) (1672); [Greek] Dat is den ezel op d'harpe ofte lyere (...) (1671); Triomph-Boogh ter eere Van 't Alderheylighste-Sacrament van Mirakel te Brussel opgherecht Teghen de lasteringhen ende tot Schaemte vande Sectarisen (1671); Versoeninghe vande Menschen met Godt door het H. Sacrificie der Misse (1671); Ghebouwsel sonder grondt dat is calvinisten gheloof sonder schrifture (1669); Grondigh Bericht van D. Ludovicus van Renesse Predicant tot Breda, Raeckende de Reliquien der Heylighen grondeloos ghemaeckt (1661); Collatie (...) gedaen inde Kercke van 't Prosessen-huys binnen de Stadt van Antwerpen op den IV. Iunij 1662, in de welcke uyt het naeckt en enkel Gods-woort Bewesen wort, dat de woorden Christi rakende het H. Sacrament Des Autaers niet Figuerlyck maer Eygentlyck Moeten verstaen worden (1662); Resolutie (...) Over een seker Casus, Raeckende de vastigheydt des gheloofs, Hem to-ghesonden uyt Hollandt den 30. Julij, 1662 (1662) and Eerste Vervolgh vande Redelycke Handelinghe (1672).
- Some vols. w. stamps and owner's entries on prelim. lvs.
= Comprises: Den Hollantschen Icarus, uyt-ghebeeldt in Daniel Peenius, Predicant tot Noortwijcker-hout (1664); Onwettighen Dienst der Ghereformeerde Predikanten (1664); Ongerymtheden der Ghereformeerde Religie (1665); Den Hollandtschen Phaeton uyt-ghebeelt in D. Ioannes Schulder, Predikant tot Breda (1665); Middaeghsche Sonne-licht voor de grove duysternissen vande Ghereformeerde Religie, bestaende in dry Samen-spraecken (1665); Aen-Merckingen (...) op een seker Schrift raeckende verscheyde oude Ketterijen, en Superstitien, seer onlanghs teghen hem uyt-ghegheven door D. Petrum Cabeljau (1662); Het gheopent Christendom ghestelt teghen het gheopende Turckdom (1664); De schreeuwenden blinden op-ziender met naeme Jan van Hamerstede woorden-dienaar tot Maestricht (n.d. (1667)); Verklaringen over den Onze Vader ende den Weest Ghegroet (1676); Algemeen afbeeldsel van den Triomph ofte den Groote Catechismus (Cologne, B. van Egmont, 1684); Ceremonien van den Heylighen Dienst der Misse (...) (1661); Victorie van Roomen over Geneve in 't stuck van 't aen-roepen ende eeren der heylighen (1660); Beelden-dienst ende vasten met haere ceremonien soo sy ghebruyckt worden vande H. Roomsche Kercke (1660); Cerimonien [sic] vande heylighe Roomsche kercke raeckende de processien, de pelgrimagien, het wy-water, ende begravenisse (1659); Vriendelycke t'saemen-spraeck tusschen D. Joannes Schuler (...) (1661); Grondigh bericht van D. Ludovicus van Renesse (...) (1661); Het vaghevyer grondelyck bevestight uyt de H. Schrifture (...) (1661); Leeringhe vanden H. Jacobus Apostel, raeende de heylighe olye der sieken, ofte het H. olyssel (1661) and Cerimonien die de H. Roomsche Kercke ghebruyckt ontrent de Reliquien der Heylighen (1659).
AND 1 other on C. Hazart.
- Occas. sl. dampstained; owner's stamp on halftitle and on (verso) final textleaf. Tear in prelim. leaf in 2nd vol. Top of spine vol.II sl. dam.
= Unusual copy: all the plates are extra. Rare. On the artist Gottfried Rogg (1669-1742), see Thieme-B. XXVIII, p.516/517.
- Fine copy. = Scheurleer 4224; Scheepers I, 106 ("Zeldzaam").
BOUND AFTER: Keuchenius, R. Musae Juveniles. Ibid., idem, 1662, (22),224p., engr. title-p., title-vignette.
- Traces of bookplate on upper pastedown; both fold. plates sm. tear and crease at inner margin of fold.
= Landwehr, VOC, 423; Tiele 462; Cat. NHSM I, p.188; Rouffaer/ Muller p.478.
- Partly (sl.) foxed and occas. yellowed/ sl. browned; vol. 8 sl. wormholed. Bindings sl. rubbed; vol. 8 lacks letterpieces.
= Colas 1419; Hiler p.424, note; cf. Lipperheide Od3.
= BMN I, p.152. The first Dutch edition of this treatise on dreams and somnabulism, first published in Weimar, 1784.
Bogaers, A. Verhandeling over het wezen der uiterlijke welsprekendheid, hare voordeelen, en de meeste geschikte middelen ter bevordering van hare beoefening hier te lande. Leyden, D. du Mortier en Zoon, 1840, 300p., contemp. giltlettered hcalf.
- Joints splitting. = With owner's entry of H.F.C. TOLLENS (1780-1856) on first free endpaper.
AND 3 others.
- Binding sl. worn/ rubbed. Good/ fine copy.
= Bibl. Med. Neerl. 250; Versnel 896. First Dutch edition of this treatise on superstition by the German philosopher J.C. Hennings (1731-1815).
- Both works occas. sl. (ink)stained; (contemp.) owner's entries on upper pastedown and first free endpaper. Covers restored; vellum sl. stained/ wrinkled.
= BCNI 6915.
- Possibly lacks 1 (fold.) plate; a few lvs. sl. waterst.; bookplate on half-title; contents occas. trifle browned, but otherwise fine. Lacks one brass catch; vellum (sl.) soiled; remnants of ticket on spine.
- Owner's entry on title; sl. yellowed. Joints broken.
= Nijhoff/ Van Hattum 234; Haitsma Mulier/ Van der Lem 366d; De Buck 4221. The first edition was published in 1650.
- Lacks 2 textlvs. (supplied in manuscript); some occas. sm. stains. Vellum wrinkled and loose(ning) at turn-ins.
= Knuttel, Ned. Bibl. Kerkges. p.139. The second enlarged edition.
- One leaf w. horizontal tear, closed w. sellotape.
AND 2 others similar.
- First vol. lacks htitle(?) and prelim. leaf A1 (with binder's index); both vols. lack the views. Apart from its incompleteness, both vols. in good condition.
= Contains plans of i.a. Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Gorinchem, Medemblik, Woerden, Purmerend, Schiedam, Schoonhoven and Hoorn.
- Upper joint starting; backstrip worn; corners showing.
= Beautiful series of mid-18th century views of Holland, with emphasis on rural villages and especially mansions and formal gardens, for which this collection forms a true mine of information. Very lively plates with many figures, highly informative on contemporary fashion, daily life etc. The series comprises: 1. Overtoom/ Amstelveen/ Sloten (20 views); 2. Amstel/ Ouderkerk/ Abcoude-Loenersloot/ Wetering (100 views); 3. Vechtstroom (frontisp. and 102 views); 4. Diemer- en Watergraafsmeer (frontisp. and 60 views); 5. Trekvaart Amsterdam-Spaarnwoude-Haarlem/ Marquette-Alkmaar (30 views); 6. Alkmaar (24 views, incl. 1 large fold. profile); 7. Kennemerland (frontisp., fold. map, 100 views); 8. Rijnland (100 views); 9. Oudewater (5 views); 10. Den Haag (19 views, incl. 1 large fold. profile); 11. Vlaardingen (10 large fold. views); 12. Delft (40 views); 13. Dordrecht (6 views). SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXXXI.
= Rare large lot of this very important and highly esteemed annual, based on eye-witness accounts, and giving a wealth of information on the Netherlands and its colonies, Europe, Asia and America. The printer and publisher P. Casteleyn was the founder of the oldest (and still existing) Dutch newspaper, the "Oprechte Haarlemsche Courant" (1656). See at large: G. Verhoeven and S. van der Veen, De Hollandse Mercurius (Haarlem, 2011). The series was continued under the title "Europeesche Mercurius" by T. ten Hoorn from 1691 onwards. Landwehr, R. de Hooghe 8: "As of the 20th volume, published in 1670, De Hooghe has designed for each yearly volume an allegorical frontispiece, except 1677 thus a total of 21 frontispieces (...)." R. de Hooghe also contributed 24 plates, views and portraits between 1674 and 1691.