- Trifle/ sl. foxed. Bindings sl. rubbed/ worn.
= Haitsma Mulier/ Van der Lem 252c; Carasso-Kok 358.
- Vol.1: upper outer corner of final leaf torn off (w. loss of text) and occas. sl. soiled/ (sl.) waterstained; vol.2: lacks htitle; both vols. new endpapers.
= De Buck 2277 (eds. 1646 and 1655).
AND an incomplete copy of: A. MONTANUS, 'T vermeerderde Leven en Bedryf van Frederik Henrik (Amst., 1653, 2nd ed., engr. title, 13 (of 15) full-p. portraits, contemp. overlapping vellum, 12mo. Lacks 2 portraits and all plates; upper outer corner of *3 torn off; lacks 1 textleaf).
- Prob. lacks 3 frontisp.; a few maps (in the vols. on Friesland) loose; partly yellowed/ browned; occas. waterst. Bindings (sl.) worn.
= Contains maps of i.a. "De Meiery van 's Hertogenbosch", "Schieland en Krimperwaard", "Het Hoogheemraadschap van Rynland, als mede van Amstelland en het Waterschap van Woerden (...)", "Zuid Westelykste deel van Holland (...) Voorne, Putten", "Baljuwschap van Amstelland" and (profile) views of i.a. Amsterdam, Arnhem, Bergen op Zoom, Goes, Haarlem, Middelburg, Nijmegen, Woerden, Zierikzee and Zutphen.
- Without the engr. divisional titles of part 2 and 3; occas. sl. foxed (incl. plates). Corners showing; backstrip loosening.
- Bookplate and catalogue entry on upper pastedown. Sm. dam. spot on frontcover and upper edge.
= First and only edition of this well-known but rare anti Stadtholder treatise against Prince William III (the later King of England). Van de Klashorst 251; Knuttel 8794a; Meulman 3998. The author defends the thesis that "a stadholder would be a menace to and not the perfection of the aristocratic constitution, in particular the Prince of Orange whose ancestors tried to attain sovereign authority and whose private interests are not necessarily in accordance with the national interest." (Van de Klashorst).
(La Court, P. de). De Gulde Legenden Van de Stadthouders in Hollandt ende West-Vrieslandt. Dat is Eenige noodige Uytbreydingen van de Toetsen over de 40 Stellingen van der selver Stadthouderlijcke Regeeringh. Ibid., F. Legendus, 1663, 336p., engr. title, later calf.
= Van de Klashors 249: "Refutation of a pamphlet discussing the historical arguments of the Stadhouderlijcke regeeringe. Though almost exclusively a work of history, its political thesis is that the Princes of Orange always tried to subvert the constitution in order to acquire sovereign authority in the Dutch state." Wildenberg 1101; Knuttel 8806c (attributing this work to J. Uytenhage de Mist).
- Trifle wormholed in lower blank margin. Otherwise fine.
= Provenance: Delprat-Veth (bookplate on first blank). Knuttel 8655a; Haitsma Mulier/ Van der Lem 475a; Van de Klashorst 236: "Historical treatise on the stadholders of the House of Orange followed by a short systematic one, both trying to prove that the stadholdership is harmful to the interests of the Dutch Republic and incompatible with its constitution."
- Binding worn; spine-ends sl. dam.
= Wildenberg 1032. The rare first edition. First work published by the brothers De La Court, a treatise on the best way of government in which the authors set out the merits and disadvantages of the various forms of government.
- Title-p. dam. (and restored); a few leaves w. (ink)stain; occas. cut short in outer margin (affecting glosses and a few of the ills. that extend into the outer margin); bookplate on upper pastedown. Joints professionally restored; spine-ends chipped.
= Rare third edition (first published Ghent, 1568 as Den spieghel der Nederlandscher audtheyt). Provenance: ex bibliotheca "B.M. Soctis. Jesu Brugis D.D. Dca Theresia Maviannis 1739" (old annot. in pen in upper margin of title-p.). From the "Bibliothecae Hafflighemensis. 1780" (old annot. in pen in lower margin of title-p.). Bibl. Belg. V65; Haitsma Mulier/ Van der Lem 477a; cf. De Wind p.160-165 ("het zonderlingste boek, 't welk ooit de pers verlaten heeft") and Scheepers I, 9 ("Zeer zeldzaam en hoogst merkwaardig werk").
- Sl. foxed. Binding sl. rubbed; upper joint splitting. = Haitsma Mulier/ Van der Lem 309b; De Wind p.45-49.
- Partly (finger)soiled and waterst.; one plate torn; final plate doubled; lacks index(?). Bindings sl. worn; joints and spine-ends dam.
= One of the finest series of views depicting the Netherlands in the 18th century.
- Contemp. underlining in pen and ink throughout; sl. yellowed and occas. sl. foxed; bookplate on upper pastedown.
= De Wind p.421-424; Haitsma Mulier/ Van der Lem 502. A history of Holland and Zeeland up to 1433, first published in Latin, 1635. Bound with short publisher's catalogue.
- Sl. foxed and stained; a few plates w. some brownish offsetting. Binding rubbed along edges and sl. worn.
= Rare, separately published edition of the plates from M. STOKE, Hollandse Jaar-Boeken of Rijm-Kronijk (1699). Ekama 312.
- Occas. trifle yellowed. A good/ fine set. = Haitsma Mulier/ Van der Lem 507f; De Buck 1130.
- Some vols. (sl.) foxed. Paper over frontcover of vol. 47 dam.; vol. 37 and 38 backstrip sl. rubbed. Otherwise a fine and attractively bound set in good condition.
= The final 2 vols. consist of the "Vervolg" of Wagenaar's Vaderlandsche Historie and the "Algemeen register op de Vaderlandsche Historie".
- Vol.1 lacks map; portraits occas. sl. foxed; all vols. bookplate on upper pastedown and first blank. A few vols. spine-ends worn/ rubbed.
= Haitsma Mulier/ Van der Lem 507f; De Buck 1130.
- One map w. (closed) tear in inner margin (reaching into the map). Otherwise fine.
- Partly foxed. Backstrips rubbed/ sl. worn (esp. affecting letterpieces); leather sl. dried; top of spines partly chipped.
- All vols. bookplate "Ex Bibliotheca J.W. Six" on upper pastedown; one vol. w. later annots. on lower pastedown and final free endpaper, otherwise contents fine. Bindings sl. worn.
= Haitsma Mulier/ Van der Lem 513e.
- Sl. wormholed in inner (blank) margin. Binding worn/ dam.
= Knuttel 561. Rare ed. of William of Orange's famous defence against the Banedict, first published 1581.
- Partly (sl.) worn copies w. various defects. The lot sold w.a.f.
= I.a. S. STYL, De opkomst en bloei der Vereenigde Nederlanden (Amst./ Harlingen, 1778, contemp. calf); J. MEERMAN, De burgerlyke vryheid in haare heilzame, de volks-vryheid in haare schadelyke gevolgen voorgesteld (Leyden, 1793, contemp. limp boards); S.I. WISELIUS, De staatskundige verlichting der Nederlanderen, in een wijsgerig-historisch tafereel geschetst (Brussels, 1828, contemp. hcalf. Lacks backtrip); L.P. VAN DE SPIEGEL, Brieven en Negotiatien (Amst., 1803, 3 vols., contemp. unif. boards); IDEM (ed.), Bundel van onuitgegeven stukken, dienende ter opheldering der Vaderlandsche Historie (...) (Goes, 1783, 2 vols., contemp. unif. boards); PLAN VAN CONSTITUTIE VOOR HET VOLK VAN NEDERLAND (The Hague, 1796, contemp. boards); J. WAGENAAR, Verhandeling van historiesche en politike tractaaten (Amst., 1780, 2 vols., contemp. unif. boards); (E. LUZAC), Toets voor het onderzoek van Groot-Brittanniens gedrag, ten opzichte van Holland (...) (Leyden, 1758, contemp. wr.) and A. KLUIT, Academische redevoering over het misbruik van 't Algemeen Staatsrecht (Leyden, 1787, without binding).