- First quire loosening; author filled out in contemp. hand; upper margin trifle waterstained.
= Praz p.409; Landwehr 853; Scheurleer p.170.
- Very fine copy.
= From the library of H.K. Overdiep. Landwehr 644 ("editio princeps of a completely revised edition of IJdelheyt des Werelts"); Praz p.459. The only edition to be published in 4to format.
- A few quires (water)stained in blank margins (mostly in vol.2). Lacks letterpieces; paper over boards worn/ dam./ chafed.
= With the rare 3rd volume containing a thematic ordering of emblems; vol. 1 and 2 are ordered alphabetically. Extensive emblematic Dutch dictionary, comprising all fields of human knowledge and activity. Landwehr 681; Praz p.461/462.
- Upper part waterstained throughout; upper hinge weak. Vellum stained and wrinkled; frontcover upper turn-in loosening.
= First Dutch edition of this extensive encyclopedia of emblems, the first emblematic model-book. Landwehr 683; Praz p.494.
- New endpapers.
= From the collection of J. Borms w. his owner's stamps on lower pastedown. Landwehr 737; Praz p. 498 (1st ed. 1663). Fine copy of a very rare pocket emblem book.
- From the library of Albert Verwey with his bookplate on upper pastedown; sl. yellowed; hinges weak. Otherwise fine.
= Landwehr 754; Praz p.501.
- Vol.1 occas. sl. foxed. Vol.1 binding sl. rubbed and backcover sl. stained; second vol. binding sl. soiled; both vols. covers sl. warped.
= Vol. 1 in the rare first edition (the second ed. was publ. in 1756; the second vol. only published once). Landwehr 757 and 760; Praz p.502. Rare set.
- Binding heavily worn; upper joint starting; backcover sm. dam. spot.
= Landwehr 779; Praz p.509. Rare.
- Fingersoiled almost throughout and partly (water)stained. Backstrip restored.
= Landwehr 827; Praz p.524. The first and only edition to contain the verses also in English (Praz quoting from the Beckford Sale that this edition is the only edition of the three that were published in 1608 that is rare). One the most influential emblem books to be published.
- Bookplate of D.F. Scheurleer and Melchior on upper endpaper. Occas. sl. wormholed in lower blank margin (five leaves restored); upper hinge wormholed at lower end; (sl.) foxed (mostly in blank margins); a few leaves yellowed. A good/ fine copy.
= The rare first edition of this famous emblem book, enlarged with Van der Veen's popular songbook. The only edition to contain the captions to the emblems in French as well as in Dutch and the only edition in 4to format, all the reprints in 8vo size. With a manuscript index ((1)p.) in contemp. pen and ink. Landwehr 842; Praz p.522-523; Hollstein XXIV,181; Scheurleer p.156.
- Hinges weakening and lower outer corner partly sl. fingersoiled. Frontcover trifle stained in upper outer corner. Otherwise a good/ fine copy.
= Landwehr 903; Praz, p.539. Rare.
- Bookplate of J. Steenks on upper pastedown; catalogue clipping laid down on first flyleaf; 18th cent. ms. annots. in text (adding the full name of the authors in places where the initials are given); p.13-14 lower corner repaired. Occas. vague waterstains in blank margin, but otherwise a remarkably clean copy, with sharp, early impressions of the illustrations.
= The first edition of this famous songbook, meant to spread the glory of the prince of Zeeland, with contributions by 18 poets born or living in Zeeland (i.a. A. Roemers Visscher, J. Cats, A. Valerius, Ph. van Borssele, J. de Brune). The plates, belonging to the best of 17th cent. Dutch bookillustration, are of emblematic and folkloristic interest. Praz p.540; Scheurleer p.149; Meertens, Letterkundig leven in Zeeland, p.217-239; Franken, Van de Venne p.97; Hollstein, W. de Passe 58; Hollstein, C. van den Queborn 95; Hollstein, Serwouters 76; Hollstein, De Jode I, 120-135 (?); Hollstein, Van de Venne 446-455; Landwehr 588 mentions P. de Jode, C. van Queboren and A. Matham as engravers.
- Occas. cut sl. short in top margin affecting caption. Frontcover (almost) loose; upper joint rubbed; title on backstrip worn off.
= From the library of G.S. Overdiep (and by descent his son H.K. Overdiep). Landwehr 909 (calling erroneously(?) for 74 emblems, but quire signatures in our copy indicate completeness). Extremely rare (one copy in STCN).
- Paper over boards chafed. Fine copy.
= The first edition of the Dutch translation by J. Konijnenburg of one of the earliest works on mimicry (first German ed. 1785-1786). Kunst op Schrift 1304.
- Sl. fingersoiled in margins, occas. also in the plate. Binding rubbed along extremities.
= Contains the following (in order of appearance in the book): the ages of men (youth, adolescence, old age (numb. 1594-1596)); seasons (spring and autumn (numb. 3018 and 3021)); birds (numb. 2331-2333); dogs (numb. 3131-3133); three naked wildmen (numb. 1416, 1417 and 1418 (bound at three different places in the book); horsemen (numb. 2745-2748); cavalrymen (numb. 1244, 1245 and 1247); various types of soldiers (numb. 1242, 1247 and 1243); "Les modes d'Hongrie, et Transylvanie, et de Valachie" (numb. 1388-1393); the elements, the times of the day, the continents, the temperaments (4 diff. plates, numb. 2882-2885); the ranks and the functions of soldiers and the commands given to cavalarists (numb. 2737-2744); types of food and drink (numb. 2597-2600); sayings (numb. 2653-2556).
- Both sets very fine and clean.
= Provenance: the first work w. owner's entry of Snellen van Vollenhoven on first free endpaper. Nissen, ZBI 3999 and 4000; Horn-S. 21554; Landwehr 191. Two very fine entomological works with beautiful contemp. handcoloured plates (occas. heightened w. gold).
- Plates partly sl. yellowed. Lacks ties. Otherwise a very fine copy.
= All published. The extremely rare first edition of this seminal work in which once and for all Swammerdam put to rest the notion of spontaneous generation by insects and the claim that they did not have an internal anatomy. Our copy is not only desirable for its rarity and its fine and attractive contemporary binding or its remarkably effective manner of illustrating the points that Swammerdam makes in his book, but also for the fact that almost all plates are contemporarily handcoloured. No handcol. copies of the first edition were traced by us in the market. Osler 961; Nissen, ZBI 4052; Garrison-Morton 294; Hagen 2:208; Krivatsy 11599.
- Recased. Very fine copy.
= Franken 1369 III; Hollstein 183, IV (ed. of 1701 w. the plates in reverse); Landwehr, Crispyn de Passe als uitgever-auteur A9 (in: Jaarboek Ned. Gen. van Bibliofielen, 1994) and Inger Leemans, Spiegel der schoonste courtisanen. Van hoerengids tot persoonlijke afrekening, (in: De Boekenwereld, jrg. 21, nr. 5 (juli 2005), p. 266-282). Extremely rare series of famous courtesans, newly engraved (incl. 1 new portrait of "Schoon Barbertjen") after the Miroir des plus belles courtisanes de ce temps by Crispyn de Passe II, Amst., 1630. The text was written by Jan van Hoogstraten (1662-1736).
- Title-p. w. 2 sm. dam. spots in outer blank margin (sl. affecting text on verso and repaired w. Japanese). Corners restored; sm. wormholes in upper joint.
= Typographia Batava 1902; BCNI 2077. Very rare edition of this popular 16th century devotional work on the suffering of Christ in an interesting contemporary binding. A fine copy.
= Not collated but apparently complete.