- From the library of J. van Praag with his bookplate and owner's entry on upper pastedown and first free endpaper of all vols. First and final few lvs. sl. browned due to turn-ins. Backstrips cracked.
= Buisman 618; cf. Scheepers I, 520.
- Frontisp. (dust)stained, top margin strengthened on verso and closed tear in outer margin; owner's entry on title-p. ("F.C. Krahmer"); sl. foxed throughout; occas. thumbed/ dust-/ water/ inkstained mainly in blank margins.
= Waller 622; De Vries 307; cf. Scheepers II, 752 (on 1st ed. 1716). Rare.
- Boards stained; backstrip dam. Contents fine.
= Scheepers II, 824; Waller 635; Atlas van Stolk 7681; Landwehr, Dutch Books Col. Plates 70. Interesting account of giants and dwarfs, the plates showing various historical giants and dwarfs and the fold. plate showing the large shoe-size of "Gerrit Bastiaansz, of den Lekkerkerkschen boer" at age 10 (27 cm.) and age 21 (35,2 cm.).
- New endpapers.
= From the library of M. Buisman (both vols. w. his owner's entry on first free endpaper). Waller 647; De Vries 214; Buisman 739.
- Occas. sl. fingersoiled/ sl. stained; a few quires in the first part sl. waterstained in (mainly blank) outer margin; new endpapers.
= Muller 581 (attrib. the plates to C. de Passe); De Vries 413; Scheepers II, 488 (attrib. most plates to C. de Passe). Very rare.
- Frontisp. and title-p. frayed and sl. waterstained in lower half; upper hinge starting. Binding soiled; later ms. title and year on spine.
= The rare second edition. Buisman 767; Waller 687; Muller 23; De Vries 12. The "prototype" of all Dutch arcadian novels, interspersed with many interesting articles on witchcraft, magic, Dutch history, East Indies, Dutch folklore etc. The first edition of 1637 was published with the title Inleydinghe tot het ontwerp van een Batavische Arcadia.
- With bookplate (F. Bohn) on upper pastedown and owner's entry of M. Buisman on first free endpaper; upper hinge broken, holding on cords; waterstained in lower margin; inner margin frontisp./ title strengthened and lacks lower corner.
= Mateboer 1537; Buisman 788; Scheepers II, 142.
- Upper hinge broken but holding on cords; frontisp. rubbed. Vellum sl. soiled.
= Geerebaert XXXVIII-2; Muller 330; Buisman 804; Waller 699. Very rare Dutch edition.
- Sl. yellowed. Binding sl. worn along extremities.
= Ad 1: Scheepers I, 203 (note) and Waller 701 (second ed.). Ad 2: Rare Dutch translation of the biography (publ. in 1723) of the famous English prostitute Sally Salisbury aka Sally Priddon (1694-1724) who was imprisoned in 1722 for a stabbing incident and died in 1724 (one year after our publication!).
- New endpapers. Fine copy.
= Extremely rare first edition of this pictorial chapbook. Buisman 843; cf. Waller 762; cf. The Children's World of Learning 1848 (3rd ed., 1806); not in Muller, Scheepers, De Vries. The man with the fur cap was a mechanical figure protecting an eternally burning lamp, the discovery of a German alchemist. To prevent the world from learning of his invention, the alchemist hid it in a vault, guarded by the fur-capped man. After his death, the hidden vault was discovered; triggered by the intruders proceeding on the steps to the vault, the mechanical man made threatening movements to scare them off. One intruder walked down as far as the lowest step, upon which the mechanical man destroyed the lamp with his club, therewith also destroying the secret of the eternal lamp.
- Fine copy.
= Extremely rare chapbook. Cf. Muller 717 (ed. Antw. 1623); cf. Waller 765 (ed. Antw., n.d.).
- Waterstain in lower (mostly blank) margin throughout; trifle foxed; sl. frayed; 19th cent. annot. on verso frontcover.
= Cf. Waller 759 and Muller 718 (ed. Amst., A. Meyer, n.d. Adam Meyer was active between 1756-1791).
- Sl. browned and stained. Wrapper split over spine. = Waller 789.
- Binding sl. rubbed. Otherwise a fine copy.
= First published in 1768, according to Buisman 881; The Children's World of Learning 1710; de Vries 85.
- Three owner's entries on prelim. lvs.; 2 repaired tears in map; Otherwise fine.
= From the collection of M. Buisman with his owner's entry on first free endpaper. Buisman 903; Scheepers II, 398. This edition not in Muller, Waller and de Vries. The rare first Dutch edition.
- New endpapers; hinges weak.
= From the library of M. Buisman, with his owner's entry on first free endpaper. Waller 816; Buisman 912; De Vries 334; Scheepers II, 402. Rare.
= Not in the usual reference works.
- Two leaves sl. dam. in lower outer corner (affecting a catchword and outer lower corner of plate 3); 2nd half w. a narrow stain in outer blank margin. Otherwise fine.
= Buisman 923; De Vries 153; Scheepers II, 159: "Dit werk behoort tot de zonderlingste gewrochten, die de breidelooze verbeelding heeft kunnen scheppen. Zijn talrijke avonturen hebben grootendeels in Den Haag en aan ons zeestrand plaats." Rare, no copy in JAP 1990-2021.
- Covers sl. warped and vellum at fore-edge margin sl. dam. Otherwise fine.
= Rare complete and remarkable copy w. below each portrait a sm. engr. tipped-in caption strip with the German text (taken from orig. German edition). Buisman 1677; Scheepers 902; Waller 1242. First Dutch translation of Hosmann's Fürtreffliches Denck-Mahl (...) (Braunschw., 1700). "Buisman onthult niet welke auteur zich achter de initialen M.S.H. op het titelblad verbergt. Het betreft hier echter Magister Sigismund Hosmann, Consistorial- und Stadt-Prediger in Zell, residentie van de hertogen van Brunswijk-Lüneburg. De Michaels-kerk met het befaamde gouden hoogaltaar viel onder hun jurisdictie en het was daar dat in maart 1698 de brutale kerkroof plaats vond die centraal staat in Hosmann's boek (...) het onderscheidt zich van de meeste Levens van beruchte Personen die ons onder ogen kwamen door zijn fervente Jodenhaat. Als een zwarte draad loopt het door heel deze geschiedenis: de Joden zijn de hoofdschuldigen, de boze inspirators op de achtergrond, de lafhartige profiteurs die winst van elke inbraak opstrijken. En dat niet incidenteel maar uit principe, ja, volgens traditie." (Buijnsters, Levens van beruchte Personen, p.15f).
- Occas. trifle yellowed; bibliographical annot. on verso first free endpaper of vol.1; both vols. 17th cent. owner's entry by "Rosetta Bockstadt 1650" on first blank. Fine copy.
= Bibl.Belgica H 17 (one of the four identical editions published in 1614-1615). First published at Antw., C. Plantin, 1582-1583. Cf. Scheepers II, 40. Very rare and attractively illustrated, this is probably Houwaert's best known work. It is a guide to proper behaviour of "eersame goetwillighe lesers, maeghden dochters, Vrouwen, Weduwen, als Mans" (only the final part of the 16 parts that the work comprises is directed at men).