- Vol.1 last blank loose(ning); vol.2 last ±40 lvs. waterstained in upper (inner) margin. Lacks letterpieces; spine-ends and corners worn.
= On medicine in relation to the Bible. BMN I, p.13.
- Title-p. sl. duststained and reattached. Good copy. = Quérard II, p.527.
- Bookplate of V. de la Montaigne on upper pastedown. Lacks letterpiece; worn along extremities.
AND 2 others, i.a. A. PRUDENTIUS CLEMENS, Lofzangen. Transl. G. Kempher (Leyden, 1712, engr. frontisp., contemp. vellum, sm. 8vo).
- Title-p. and 1 other textp. trifle stained; bookplate on upper pastedown. Extremities sl. rubbed. Fine copy.
= Rare collection of biographies (incl. philosopher David Hume) by the Scottish printer William Smellie (1740-1795), which was posthumously published by his son Alexander, being an unfinished attempt at a Scottish biographical dictionary. William Smellie is renowned for editing the first edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica, and co-founding both the Royal Society of Edinburgh and Society of Antiquaries of Scotland.
- Pastedowns partly browned. Upper joint starting.
Kruyff, J. de. Gedichten. Amst., Yntema en Tieboel, 1776, (2),XVI,193,(3)p., engr. title and portrait by R. VINKELES, contemp. gilt hcalf.
- Endpapers foxed; 3 prel. lvs. (incl. portr.) w. sm. stains in blank margin; bookplate on verso first blank.
Koolaart (geb. Hoofman), E. De naagelaatene gedichten. Haarlem, J. Bosch, 1774, XVI,200p., engr. title by R. VINKELES, 19th cent. gilt hcalf w. mor. letterpiece. - AND 3 others, i.a. J.J. MAURICIUS, Dichtlievende uitspanningen (Amst., 1753, engr. frontisp. and coat of arms by S. FOKKE, title-vignette by B. PICART, contemp. calf).
- Owner's entry on first free endpaper. Letterpieces dam.; joints split(ting).
= Nijhoff/ Van Hattum 294; cat. Honig 201.
Bos, L. van den. Dordrechtsche Arcadia. Bevattende Oude en Nieuwe, soo binnen- als buytenlantsche Geschiedenissen, verschiet van Verhandelingen, Staet en Wijs-kunde, Minnery en Poësy, Vermaeck en Nut, &c. Amst., A. van den Heuvel, 1663, 2nd ed., 599p., engr. frontisp., 8 plates, contemp. overlapping vellum, 12mo.
- New endpapers; crossed-out contemp. owner's entry on verso final textleaf; bookblock shaken; hinges weak.
= From the collection of M. Buisman w. his owner's entry on fist free endpaper. The rare 2nd edition. Buisman 267; cf. De Vries 24; cf. Muller 92; cf. Waller 316; cf. Mateboer 312.
Oudenhoven, J. Silva-Ducis aucta & renata of Een Nieuwe ende gantsch Vermeerderde Beschrijvinge van de stadt van s' Hertogen-Bossche, vervatende des selfs begin en voortganck, soo van Geestelijcke als Wereldtlijcke Gestichten, oprichten van 't Capittel (...). 's-Hertogenbosch, J. Scheffers, J. van Oudenhoven and Wed. I. van Dockum, 1670, 2 parts in 1 vol., (8),235,(7); (6),146,(5)p., engr. title w. a fine view of 's-Hertogenbosch, contemp. calf, sm. 4to.
- Small owner's entry on engr. title; occas. yellowed/ sl. browned. Binding sl. worn along extremities; top of spine sl. dam.
= Nijhoff/ Van Hattum 232; Van Herwijnen 2903.
- Contemp. owner's entry on verso of first free endpaper; sm. portion cut out of title; bookblock shaken. Lacks ties.
= BCNI 7737. Very rare.
Avila, T. de. Den Wech der Volmaectheyt, Beschreven door de Salighe Moeder Teresa van Jesus/ Fondateresse vande Cloosters der ongeschoende Carmelieten (...). Ibid., R. Velpius and R. Antoon, 1613, (16),358,(1)p., contemp. vellum.
- Contemp. owner's entry on upper pastedown ("Suster Johanna de Bes"); sl. yellowed. Lacks ties.
= BCNI 5958.
Walenburg, A. and P. Den eenvoudigen Catholyck. Hier is achter by-gevoegt: Een Klein Werkje, met den naam van Gesantschap. Antw., J.B. Verdussen, 1699, 2 parts in 1 vol., (10),376,(5); (10),76p., contemp. vellum, sm. 8vo.
- Vellum soiled. = Possibly printed in Haarlem.
- Partly (sl.) foxed/ browned (worse in part 4). Corners showing.
- Lacks 1 plate; 3 plates loose(ning); hinges weak but holding on cords. Binding (sl.) rubbed/ worn along extremities.
= Scheurleer p.40; cf. Klaversma/ Hannema 342-346 (Amst., 1682-1694).
Lodensteyn, J. van. Uyt-spanningen, Behelsende eenige stichtelyke liederen, En andere gedichten. Amst./ Utr., Wed. de Groot/ J. van Stuyvezant, 1713, 7th enl. and corr. ed., 4 parts in 1 vol., (16),464,(13)p., 4 (3x ident.) woodcut title-vignettes, scores, contemp. vellum, sm. 8vo.
- Owner's entry on endpapers, title and first 10 textlvs.; sl. browned. Vellum soiled/ stained.
= Scheurleer p.79; cf. Waller 1098 and 1099; Scheepers I, 292.
AND 5 others similar, i.a. an incomplete copy of R. BATAVUS, Nieu Liedt-Boecxken (Antw., 1617, 3rd ed., woodcut title-vignette, later vellum, sm. 8vo. Rebound) and J. SIKKES, Het nieuwe Ternaarder Bloemen-dal, of Vriesche Lust-hof (Deventer, 1815, later hcalf, sm. 8vo. Rebound).
- Yellowed/ sl. browned. Binding sl. rubbed along edges; covers w. a few wormholes.
= Dünnhaupt p.3661 (and passim). Benjamin Schmolck (or Schmolcke/ Schmolcken) was a popular author of devotional songs form Silezia. "Obschon er Schweidnitz kaum je verließ, hatte sich sein Ruhm als Kirchenlieddichter längst über ganz Deutschland verbreitet, ehe er in Schweidnitz am 12. Februar 1737 verstarb. Zwar konnte ihn noch Graesse herablassend als "un poète fade et ennuyeux" belächeln, doch hat sein Beitrag zum deutschen Kirchenlied des Pietismus inzwischen längst wieder im höherem Maße Würdigung gefunden". (Dünnhaupt).
- Title-p. sl. stained and trimmed to borderline at right side; first 3 textlvs. sl. wormholed.
= Rare. First and only Dutch ed. of this devotional work by the Spanish Franciscan Andres de Soto (1553-1625). BCNI 6322; Simoni S-205.
- Two initial plates and two final plates sl. dampstained in outer blank margin; one plate ("Going to the Feria") cut sl. short affecting caption; lacks the final texteaf w. the poem "The Maid of Andalusia"; owner's entry in ballpoint on first blank; the first 4 and final 8 textleaves and the verso of a few plates foxed, otherwise the plates in fine condition. Binding chafed and (sl.) worn along margins; frontcover dampstained in upper outer corner.
= Lipperheide Jc 20; Colas 1476; Hiler p.445; Tooley, Col. Plates 269. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XCVI.
- Vols. (partly) sl. browned/ foxed. Extremities sl. worn.
= As often without the portrait. Buijnsters, Justus van Effen 26.1; Waller 1577.
- Title-p. of vol. 2 sl. waterst. Extremities sl. rubbed; 2 vols. foot of spine sl. dam. A good set.
= The 2nd ed. of the Dutch translation. Buijnsters, Spectatoriale geschriften 1.8.
- Vol. 1 waterstained in lower (outer) margin (final 5 quires sl. mouldstained). Bindings sl. rubbed.
= Complete set containing 155 issues. Buijnsters, Bibliogr. 18e-eeuwse Spect. Tijdschr. 72.
- Top of spine torn. Otherwise fine.
= Carolus Tuinman (1659-1728), Dutch Voetiaans minister, strong critic of Spinoza and author of a famous work on Dutch sayings, was asked by the council of the Middelburg church to start a polemic against the so-called "Hattemisten", the adherents of the teachings of Pontiaan van Hattem, who in turn was influenced by the works of Spinoza. As Jonathan Israel writes about Tuinman's negative attitude towards Spinoza's scientific philosophy, which he says was a fertile ground for atheism : "This continuing dissemination was helped, he alleged, by the insidious duplicity of the dissident theologian Pontiaan van Hattem (1645-1706) who (...) had supposedly camouflaged the new popular Spinozism in Christian-sounding phrases as was manifest, he maintained, from the recent compilation of van Hattems writings entitled De Val vans Wereldts Af-God (The Hague, 1718), clandestinely edited and published by the remarkable Jacob Roggeveen (1659-1729), discoverer of Samoa and, in April 1722, of Easter Island." (Enlightenment Contested, p.31 and 376f). The main focus of Tuinman's attack was Marinus Booms, who was eventually banned from Middelburg and excommunicated by the Middelburg church council.
BOUND WITH 4 others by the same, all on the same controversy concerning Booms, the perfidious influence of Spinozists, Hattemists and the like: 1. Sibboleth, of Leugen en Bedrog, van den vermomden Vrygeest, Marinus Booms (ibid., J. Opsomer, 1715, (16),541,(3)p.); 2. De liegende en bedriegende vrygeest, Ontmaskert in een andwoord Aan den vermomden Constantius Prudens, Op zyn Missive, waar in hy overbrieft de bedenkingen der Vrygeesten tegen het Opstel en de Wederlegging hunner gruwelleere, benevens de Wederandwoord aan Theophilus. Hier by is gevoegt, A. Geulinx Medemaat van B. de Spinoza, en de Vrygeesten (ibid., J. Boter, S. Clement en W. Eling, 1715, (16),184,(3),56p.); 3. Het helsche gruwelgeheim der heillooze Vrygeesten, Open gelegt door den vermomden Pius Fidelis, Met het opschuimen van zyn eigen schande, in de Missive aan den Heer I.M.H.V.H. tegens het Boek de Liegende en Bedriegende Vrygeest, en de These en Antitheses des E. Kerkenraads van Middelburg. Benevens Een Andwoord en Aanmerkingen over dezelve, met betoog dat het alles vernieuwde David Jortery is. Noch een Nareden, waar in ook het Leven en Bedryf van dien verleider beschreven word. Mitsgaders de Staatkunde der Vrygeesten (...) En een woordenlyst van de nieuwe Boeventaal (ibid., W. Eling, 1717, (16),321,(1)p. The Woordenlyst van de nieuw verzonnen Boeventaal runs from p.315 to 318); 4. Korte afschetzing der ysselykheden, Welke van de Spinozistische Vrygeesten uitdrukkelyk worden geleert, of die in hunne gronden middagklaar opgewonden zyn (...). Hier zyn bygevoegt Verklaarde Uittreksels uit eenige verzamelde Schriften van P. van Hattem, met een godslasterlyken titel van Val van 'sWerelds Afgod, enz. onlangs uitgegeven door Jakob Roggeveen, waar uit de snoodheid van dat gruwelboek zonneklaar blykt (Rott., R. van Doesburg, 1719, 93p. Sl. waterstained).
= A very rare collection. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XCVI.
- Occas. sl. yellowed/ foxed (esp. first 10 leaves); lacks the 4 pages at the end with laudatory poems; hinges weak. Rebacked w. vellum; covers duststained.
BOUND WITH: Huët, D.T. Inhuldiging van Zijne Doorluchtige Hoogheid Willem Karel Hendrik Friso, Prins van Oranje en Nassau, enz. enz. enz. (...) als erf-heer van Vlissingen, op den Vden Junij MDCCLI. Ibid., idem, 1753, (22),73,(1)p., engr. frontisp., portrait, 8 (fold./ double-p.) plates, 2 ills.
- Occas. sl. yellowed, mainly in blank margins.
= Landwehr, Splendid Ceremonies 227 and 228; Kat. Orn. Berl. 2967 and 2968; Lipperheide Sd 31; Vinet 642; Lotz, Feuerwerk p.105.
- Waterstain in upper inner margin throughout, affecting the plates.
= Adams S 764; F.M. 403; Landwehr, Splendid ceremonies 25; Cat. Orn. Berl. 2939; Jeudwine p.261 and no. 403 ("The mannerist illustration together with the Frenchified roman and italic types make this a modern book for its date"); Delen II, Les graveurs- illustrateurs, p.50-52 ("un des plus beaux livres du XVIe siècle"); Fontaine Verwey, Uit de wereld van het boek I, p.51-68 ("een werk dat grote invloed zou hebben op de architectuur"). Dutch translation (prob. by Gillis van Diest) of the Latin edition, published in the same year. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XCVI.
- Lacks 10 textp.; textp. sl. waterst.; some plates w. sm. restored tears and sl. foxed (mostly in blank margins); 7 plates waterst. and soiled in the image; 3 plates loose. Paper over backstrip sl. worn.
= With 5 EXTRA plates not called for in the usual reference works, showing the state bed of Prince William IV (4x incl. 1 plan) and an etched overview/ legend of the funeral procession. Landwehr, Splendid Ceremonies 230f; F.M. 4027 and 4032; Atlas van Stolk V, 4027 and 4033; Lipperheide Sd 33f; Cohen/ De Ricci 829f.
- Sl. later owner's entry on first blank; libr. stamp on title; bookblock shaken. Lacks ties; upper corner of frontcover dam.; libr. stamps on fore-edge.
= Very rare, only 1 copy found in STCV.
AND 2 others.