78 2721 Netherlands Gysius J 
78 2721 Netherlands Gysius J 
- Old annot. in pen and ink on title-p. and on verso first free endpaper; a few sm. soiled spots on title-p. Fine copy.
= Provenance: annot. on first free endpaper "Ex auct. Hultmanni" [G.C. Hultman] followed by "vkv" in a different hand. Haitsma Mulier/ Van der Lem 197a; De Buck 2298; De Wind p.571ff ("hoogst zeldzaam").
78 2722 Netherlands Langendyk P 
- Some occas. foxing. Backstrips sl. rubbed; paper over covers chafed/ dam.
= Large paper copy.
78 2723 Netherlands Meteren E van 
78 2723 Netherlands Meteren E van 
78 2723 Netherlands Meteren E van 
- Covers scratched and rubbed; corners showing. A fine copy.
= Haitsma Mulier/ Van der Lem 333d. Brummel p.171: "Zijn werk heeft niet alleen (...) het materiaal bijeengebracht voor de latere historicus, maar het was tevens en vooral het leesboek, dat de bewoners van deze landen hun politiek verleden en heden leerde kennen of in herinnering bracht. De jaren van geweld en onderdrukking, van lijden en verzet gingen voor het eerst in een aaneengeschakeld verhaal aan hun geestesoog voorbij. Dit boek was een machtig wapen in onze strijd voor de vrijheid. (...) Wat voor de godsdienst de Statenbijbel, voor de letteren Cats was, bleef een eeuw lang Van Meteren voor onze geschiedenis. De man, die dit boek gedurende 30 jaren met zijn zorgen heeft omringd, leefde buitens land. Het mag een wonder heten, dat hij, die van zijn 15e jaar af in Londen gewoond heeft en slechts nu en dan voor een korte tijd ons land bezocht, zoveel materiaal kon verzamelen en bewerken, dat voor een deel tot op de huidige dag zijn waarde nog niet verloren heeft".
78 2724 Netherlands Rademaker A 
78 2724 Netherlands Rademaker A 
78 2724 Netherlands Rademaker A 
- Large paper copy. Contents fine apart from the following minor defects: vol.1 and 2 (sl.) foxed, other vols. occas. sl. foxed; vol. 5 sl. wormholed in lower blank margin. Corners partly (sl.) worn; covers occas. rubbed/ sl. worn/ (sl.) scratched.
= The desirable first edition, the views with accomp. text printed on one side only and w. ample margins.
78 2725 Netherlands Reyd E van 
78 2725 Netherlands Reyd E van 
78 2725 Netherlands Reyd E van 
- Later owner's entry "G.J. Douwes" on first free endpaper; crossed out owner's entry on title; final ±200p. w. unobtrusive waterstain in upper blank margin. Vellum lacks ties and sl. soiled.
= Haitsma Mulier/ Van der Lem 396a; De Buck 2299.
78 2726 Netherlands Stoke M 
- Upper part sl. waterstained.
= With contemp. owner's entry "Sum Iani Egmondani Nyenburgh", Johan van Egmond van de Nijenburg, the mayor of Alkmaar (1618-1712). Rare early edition. Haitsma/ Mulier 146b.
78 2727 Netherlands Stoke M 
78 2727 Netherlands Stoke M 
78 2727 Netherlands Stoke M 
- Occas. yellowed/ sl. browned/ foxed (plates generally fine).
= The list of plates mentions 4 more portraits, but they were never added to this edition. Haitsma Mulier/ Van der Lem 9a; Lipperheide Gb25. Chronicle covering the years 647-1305. Stoke was the first Dutch historiographer describing Dutch history from an international perspective.
78 2728 Netherlands Strada F 
78 2728 Netherlands Strada F 
78 2728 Netherlands Strada F 
- Frontisp. with inset "Leo Belgicus" map, lacks sm. part of lower left corner (w. loss of sm. part of image), trimmed to the border line and laid down; engr. title mounted on a stub; frontisp. and title-p. both sl. browned at top of inner margin; 4 views (sl.) stained in lower margin; lacks one portrait. Occas. sl. waterst. and soiled.
= Bibl. Belgica S72; De Buck 2277 (eds. 1646 and 1655).
78 2729 Netherlands Velthem L van 
78 2729 Netherlands Velthem L van 
- Trifle foxed. Otherwise a fine copy. = Haitsma Mulier/ Van der Lem 309b; De Wind p.45-49.
78 2730 Netherlands Wachtendorp C 
78 2730 Netherlands Wachtendorp C 
- Occas. a few sm. stains (mostly in margins). Otherwise a fine copy.
78 2731 Nieremberg J E 
- Crossed out owner's entry on first free endpaper. = De Backer/ Sommervogel V, p.1735; BCNI 9578.
78 2732 Nijmegen Arkstée H K 
78 2732 Nijmegen Arkstée H K 
- Sl. later owner's entries on first and final free endpapers. A very fine copy.
= Large paper copy. Nijhoff/ Van Hattum 8.
78 2733 Numan H 
78 2733 Numan H 
78 2733 Numan H 
78 2733 Numan H 
78 2733 Numan H 
78 2733 Numan H 
- Some sl. occas. foxing. Binding sl. rubbed at extremities. A fine copy.
= Landwehr, Dutch Books w. Col. Plates 381 ("the first Dutch topographical work published with (coloured) aquatint plates"); Nijhoff/ Van Hattum 217; Harlemia Illustrata 726-738. Contains beautiful views of mansions, mainly in the surroundings of Haarlem and near De Vecht: Velserbeek (2x), Boekenrode (2), Waterland (2), Elswoud, Berckenrode (2), Oosterduin (2), Hoffwerk, Rupelmonde, Over-Holland (2), Trompenburgh (2), Schaffelaar (2), Het Klooster ("by Heemstede") (2), Voorland (2) and Karssenhof. Very fine and rare series, originally published in instalments: "Numan could (...) paint subtle water-colours and, in 1793, sent out a circular letter with two coloured prints of two mansions, inviting subscriptions for a whole series of such pictures. During the period 1793-1797, he published this series of extremely fine engravings (...)" (Landwehr, p.37f).
78 2734 Numismatics Alkemade K van 
78 2734 Numismatics Alkemade K van 
- Binding worn. Otherwise fine. = Lipsius/ Leitzmann p.8.
78 2735 Numismatics Bogaert A 
- Sl. later owner's entry on upper pastedown. Otherwise a very fine copy.
78 2736 Occultism Kircher A 
78 2736 Occultism Kircher A 
78 2736 Occultism Kircher A 
- A few closed tears (1x a large tear in image); blank lower outer corner of title-p. of vol. 2 restored. Otherwise a very clean and fine copy.
= The first Dutch translation of the original Latin edition Mundus subterraneus (Amst., 1664). Wellcome III, 395; Nissen ZBI 2197; Sabin 37968; Dünnhaupt 16; Caillet 5783 ("Le plus curieux des nombreux ouvrages de ce savant"); Ferguson I, 467; De Backer-S. IV, 1060. B.L. Merrill, Athanasius Kircher, no.17: "The Mundus subterraneus, perhaps the most popular of Kircher's works in his day and the best known in ours, is cited in letters and works of such contemporaries as Martin Lister (1639-1712), the zoologist and geologist; Robert Moray (1608?-73), chemist, metallurgist, and first president of the Royal Society; the philosophers Baruch Spinoza (1632-77) and John Locke (1632-1704); Henry Oldenburg (1618-77), the secretary of the Royal Society and the first professional scientific administrator; Nicolaus Steno (1638-86), the anatomist and geologist; and the physicist Christian Huygens (1629-95). The basis and impetus for the Mundus subterraneus was Kircher's visit to Sicily in 1637-38, where he witnessed an eruption of Aetna and Stromboli. He prefaced the work with his own narrative of the trip, including his spectacular descent into Vesuvius upon his return to Italy. His observations of these volcanoes led him to conclude that the center of the earth is a massive internal fire for which the volcanoes are mere safety valves.
But the work is not solely geologic. Kircher continues with fantastic speculations about the interior of the earth, its hidden lakes, its rivers of fire, and its strange inhabitants. Major topics include gravity, the moon, the sun, eclipses, ocean currents, subterranean waters and fires, meteorology, rivers and lakes, hydraulics, minerals and fossils, subterranean giants, beasts and demons, poisons, metallurgy and mining, alchemy, the universal seed and the generation of insects, herbs, astrological medicine, distillation, and fireworks. In this work he discloses his experience with palingenesis: he had allegedly resuscitated a plant from its ashes. Much of the work deals with alchemy. Kircher ridicules Paracelsus' belief in transmutation and discredits the work of alchemists in general, complaining about the obscurity of their writings. This diatribe brought him vicious criticism and abuse later in life from alchemists who no longer feared the authority of the Jesuit order. Kircher does, however, praise the work of the "true chemist," the chymiotechnicus."
78 2737 Occultism Sennert D 
78 2737 Occultism Sennert D 
- Frontisp. sl. dam. in outer corners and inner margin; outer margin of frontisp. strengthened on verso. A very good copy.
= Krivatsy 10958; Poggendorff II, p.907-908. Cf. Scheepers I, 571 and Waller 1541 (first ed. 1638). Dutch translation of this popular work on sorcery & witchcraft, magic potions, the power of imagination on (imagined) diseases etc. Includes a treatise on invulnerability in war, a magic salve for the treatment of wounds and a refutation of Paracelsus. The frontispiece depicts a magician laying magic bones at a sick-bed. "He was the first to introduce chemistry as a subject of the medical curriculum and to make a serious effort to harmonise the doctrines of the Galenic medicine with what he considered true in Paracelsus' doctrines. Though of immense learning and fully alive to certain current errors (...) he still believed in transmutation, in the application of astrology to medicine and in the supernatural origin of disease." (Ferguson, Bibl. Chemica 2, p.372). Rare.
78 2738 Ockerse W A 
- New endpapers; plate sl. foxed. = The third part concerns the national character of the Dutch.
78 2739 Ortelius A 
- Fine copy.
= Funck 374; Belg. Typogr., nr. 2284; Van de Waal II, p. 172-175; Hollstein, Van der Borcht vol.V, 2349-2358; Pettegree NB 23265. Generally considered the rarest of Ortelius' works, this work shows the strong interest of geographer Ortelius in matters of history. The 10 engravings each illustrate a specific aspect in the life and culture of the ancient Germanic tribes: "Infantia", "Indoles", "Vita Familiaris", "Frugalitas & Gula", "Connubia", "Bellandi Mos", "Funeralia", "Legum administratio", "Religio" and "Dotes".
78 2740 Ottonis G 
- From the collection of J.A. Borms with his stamp on lower pastedown. Inner margin stained throughout.