- Fine copy.
= From the library of A.F.H. von Seckendorff, with his small armorial bookplate on upper pastedown. Quérard, La France Littéraire III, p.481, listing the original French edition, published in 1782: "La partie dogmatique de cet ouvrage est du comte de Grimoard, et la partie systématique, de m. de Gugy, alors officier dans les gardes-suisses, et depuis lieutenant-colonel du régiment suisse de Sonnenberg." Very rare.
- Partly sl. yellowed; both vols. bookplate on upper pastedown.
= First edition of the posthumously published complete works of Simon Lefebvre (1712-1770), military engineer in the Prussian army. Contains i.a. L'art d'attaquer et défendre les places and Essai sur les mines.
= From the collection of Max Dreger w. his bookplate on upper pastedown. Fine and richly illustrated publication on the history and evolution of European armour. Lipperheide Qb62.
- Bookplate on upper pastedown; sl. yellowed; engr. title stuck to title-p. along left margin, w. minimal loss of text on the latter. Binding chafed and rubbed; sm. traces of sellotape at top of spine.
= German translation of Busschietereij konst (Amst., 1662). The author was a Silezian nobleman in Danish service. Rare.
- Bindings sl. worn along extremities (1 frontcover w. sm. rubbed spot).
= Rare ed. in attractive binding.
- Bookblock sl. trimmed; lvs. O and O2 misbound. Upper joint split; foot of spine chipped.
= Cf. Welsh 1689 (ed. 1603, sl. smaller size); not in Bondy. Rare.
- Upper hinge weak, first quire loose. Binding rubbed/ sl. worn along extremities.
= Very rare. Printed on woven paper with unidentified watermark. The date is derived from another copy with a dated owner's entry. Perhaps printed in the Netherlands. Weigelt/ Landolt 307.
- Lacks free endpapers; sl. soiled. Binding plasticised; worn spots. = Welsh 691.
Evangelische gezangen, om nevens Het boek der psalmen bij den openbaren godsdienst in de Nederlandsche Hervormde Gemeenten gebruikt te worden. The Hague, J. Allart, 1812, (16),419,(1)p., scores, contemp. gilt mor., a.e.g., ±9x5 cm. (title-p. loosening). - AND 4 other miniature/ small-sized books.
- First 3 lvs. (incl. titles) remargined/ strengthened along outer edges w. tape; remnants of wax seals on pastedowns. Contents otherwise fine. Vellum sl. stained.
= Rare publication on how to memorize world history through images.
- Some foxing. Covers sl. chafed. = Cioranescu 46067 (4 vols.).
- Without the 6th vol. Lacks an unknown numb. of plates; occas. sl. yellowed and some lvs. loose (all plates in 3rd vol.); 1 vol. w. a few plates sl. waterst. in upper (blank) margin; vol. 3 lacks upper pastedow and partly mouldy. All vols. vellum soiled and w. paper ticket at foot of spine; vol. 1 dam. at top of spine. Sold w.a.f.
= Rubens p.1103-1215, 1244-1273; Sabin 62600 (praising the engravings). One of the main sources documenting the history of religion, with extensive descriptions of the Jewish and Roman Catholic faith (incl. the activities of the inquisition), Greek-Orthodox and Protestant churches, Quakers, Anabaptism, Freemasonry, Islam, Buddhism, Chinese and Persian religions, American and African creeds etc. The first vol. i.a. dealing with the rites and customs of the Dutch Jewry in the 17th and 18th century, with fine plates.
- Bookplate on upper pastedown; new endpapers; owner's stamp on first free endpaper; contemp. annots. on engr. title; outer margins of title dam.
Rosweydus, H. a.o. Het Leven ende Spreucken der Vaderen beschreven door den H. Hieronymus Priester ende andere verscheyde autheuren. Ibid., idem, 1643, 2nd ed., (40),852,(48)p., engr. title-vignette, contemp. blindst. calf over wooden covers w. later clasps and catches, folio.
- First ±65 lvs. trifle/ sl. waterst. in upper blank margin, contents otherwise fine. Spine-ends restored; blindstamping on covers almost gone.
- Occas. sl. yellowed; bookplate on upper pastedown. Binding rubbed and sl. worn; spine-ends dam.
= Scheurleer I, p.79; Eitner I, p.430. Anton Bemetzrieder taught Diderot's daughter Marie-Angélique the harpsichord.
- Occas. sl. foxed; hinges strengthened. Joints splitting; bindings w. some rubbed spots.
= Eitner II, p.246; RISM B VI, 190f.
- Possibly lacks a prelim. text leaf or htitle; title-p. and first leaf cut short in lower blank margin; waterst. at the beginning and end, incl. some plates; inside wrappers heavily foxed.
= Eitner VI, p.299. Vincenzo Manfredini was bandmaster at the court of Catherine the Great and private music teacher of czarevitch Paul.
- Sl. yellowed and foxed. Lacks clasp and catch; gilding worn off.
F.C.M.R. [= F. Claus]. Christelyke Onderwyzing of Verklaaring en Uitbreiding van den Catechismus verdeeld in vyf Deelen en eenen-veertig Lessen, voor de Catholyke Jonkheyd van 't Aartsbisdom en alle andere Bisdommen van Mechelen. Ibid., T. Crajenschot, 1772, 567,(16)p., engr. frontisp., engr. title-vignette, 5 plates, contemp. gilt calf.
- Bookplate on first free endpaper.
AND 3 others, i.a. H. ENGELGRAVE, Meditatien ofte soete bemerckingen op het bitter leyden Christi (ibid., 1719, woodcut title-vignette, 13 engr. plates, later boards).
- Mor. letterpiece partly worn away; spine rubbed. = Attractive binding.
ADDED: 2 miscell. others in 4 vols.: S. GESSNER, Oeuvres (n.pl., n.d., 3 vols., engr. title, contemp. unif. calf, 12mo) and a poor copy of J. LUIKEN, Beschouwing der wereld (...) (Amst., 1725, etched ills., contemp. vellum. Lacks title-p.; soiled and lvs. dam./ torn).
- Occas. sl./ trifle foxed/ browned. Bindings worn along extremities; 2 vols. top of spine dam.
= Knuttel, Verboden boeken 206: "Een der twee Achtste Vervolgen bevatte werkelijk ergerlijke schotschriften". Rare.
Wyn, H. van. Historische en letterkundige avondstonden, ter opheldering van eenige zeden der Nederlanderen; byzonderlyk in derzelver daaglyksch en huislyk leeven en van den stand der Nederduitsche dichtkunde (...). Amst., J. Allart, 1800, 2 parts in 1 vol., VII,(1),368; II,200p., 4 (fold.) engr. plates, contemp. hcalf.
- New endpapers; occas. trifle fingersoiled/ foxed/ waterst.; first title reattached to new endpaper; a few lvs. w. later annots. in blank margins. Spine rebacked (dam.); leather over corners dam.; lacks clasps and catches.
= See on this book at length K. Tilmans, Historiography and Humanism in Holland in the age of Erasmus. Aurelius and the Divisiekroniek of 1517. Haitsma Mulier/ Van der Lem 20a and 483b; Typographia Batava 2993, 2487 and 2437. Rare edition of the so-called 'Divisiekroniek', first published in 1517, and reprinted many times. The first part, by Aurelius, covers the period from the earliest times up to 1517. The second and third part were written by Ellert de Veer (Haitsma Mulier/ Van der Lem 483); the second part relates the events from 1516 up to 1591; the third part contains a more elaborate description of the period 1566-1590. "De invloed, dien de "Divisie-kroniek" geoefend heeft, is moeilijk te overschatten. Zij vatte a.h.w. nog eenmaal al het oude weten omtrent het vaderlandsch verleden samen - de "sluitsteen der middeleeuwsche geschiedschrijving" heeft Blok haar terecht genoemd (...)." (Romein, Geschiedenis Noord-Ned. geschiedschrijving, p.211). On the very often lacking map in very rare first state (of 3), see Blonk/ Blonk-van der Wijst no. 20: "Deze kaart heeft een lange geschiedenis die werd beschreven door Burger (1924). Ze wordt voor het eerst aangetroffen in een Kroniek van Holland en Zeeland van 1591. (...) De exemplaren Amsterdam UB en Tilburg bevatten geen kaart; Burger kende slechts twee exemplaren van de kroniek waarin de kaart voorkwam." SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXXXIX.
- Covers chafed; paper over boards partly dam. = Haitsma Mulier/ Van der Lem 30.
BOUND WITH: Sloot, A. van der. Twee honderdjarige gedagtenis der verlossinge van Middelburg uit de Spaansche en Antichristische Dwingelandye (...). Middelb., L. Moens, 1774, (6),VI,(8),82p.