- Very fine copy.
= Scheepers I, 552: "Bestrijding der gruwelen den zoogenaamden heksen aangedaan, waarvan vreeselijke voorbeelden worden aangehaald." Bibl. Med. Neerl. I, p.150; cf. Muller 539 and Waller 1315 (both ed. 1725). Extremely rare first edition on witchcraft, sorcery, demonology and black magic, in which the author expresses and illustrates with awful examples his discontent with the atrocities committed against presumed witches. With a remarkable woodcut title-vignette showing a witch escaping from a house through the chimney, with her legs dangling from the chimney opening inside the house while she is also seen lifting off full-length from the chimney outside with her broom. Provenance: Bob Luza.
- Occas. trifle waterstained in blank outer margin; occas. sl. yellowed; two leaves with ruststain in text. Otherwise a fine copy.
= One of the few Dutch books on wine - and a beautiful edition to that with remarkable anonymous engravings in the style of Adriaen van de Venne, illustrating the use and abuse of wine. Oberlé, Fastes 1033; Bibl. Gastronomica 4939; Scheepers I, 144; Scheurleer p.153; Hollstein 140. D.P. Pers is the pseudonym of the publisher D. Pietersz.
- Outer margins sl. yellowed. Otherwise a fine copy.
= Cf. BNK 1349f (ed.1715/ 1726). Very rare early edition of the chapbook by Lowys Porquin, an Italian educator from Piemonte who wrote this educational work for children.
- Occas. trifle/ sl. (finger)soiled; final leaf lacks upper corner; new endpapers. Rebound.
= Buisman 1938. Not found on the market.
- Covers of first vol. restored w. matching faux-vellum boards.
= Rare. Dutch edition of Gilbert Saulnier Du Verdier, Le chevalier hipocondriaque (1632). Mateboer 302-01/02; De Vries 117; Muller 80; Waller 695; Buisman 794; Klaversma/ Hannema 619. In the style of Don Quichote.
- New endpapers; first two lvs. upper corner cut off and repaired; title tipped in along inner margin on new endpaper; newly sewn; some marginal (repaired) tears.
= Cf. Muller 675 (ed. Antw. 1624); cf. Waller 782 (ed. Amst. 1755).
- Sm. owner's ticket first free endpaper: "Dr Jan Te Winkel"; browned and waterstained.
= Debaene p.222-223. Waller 755; Muller 687 (dating it ±1790).
- Sl. foxed. Wrapper split on spine. = Muller 707.
- Sm. bookplate on title ("A.Ch."). Wrappers sl. soiled; paper backstrip worn.
= Cf. Muller 696-704 (other eds.); cf. de Vries 129.
- Browned; new endpapers; bookplate of R. Mewberg on upper pastedown.
= Waller 763; Muller 695; de Vries 135.
- Upper and lower margins trifle frayed; upper left blank margin of title lacks sm. portion. Upper left corner frontwrapper lacks sm. portion; sl. wrinkled; backcover extensive contemp. annots.
= Extremely rare chapbook. No copy found of this edition. For more information on other editions, see: G.J. Boekenoogen, Dit es die historie ende leven (...) Jan van Beverley (1903): "Er zijn slechts vier exemplaren van het volksboek bekend, behoorende tot vier verschillende 16de- en 17de-eeuwsche drukken. Van de verdere uitgaven (en zij zijn waarschijnlijk vrij talrijk geweest) schijnen geen exemplaren bewaard te zijn gebleven."
- Browned; trifle frayed.
= Cf. Muller 661 (same year, different publisher: Erven van Jakobus van Egmont); cf. Waller 788 (ed. Amst. 1802).
- First part lacks 2 leaves (F6 and F7); one leaf sl. dam. (w. loss of a few words); final leaf frayed. Vellum sl. stained and creased.
= Rare, only 2 copies in STCN. Buisman 1187 (under Marie M. Pioche de La Vergne, gravin de La Fayette).
- Title w. some repaired dam. spots along blank margin. Otherwise a fine copy.
= From the library of C. de Poortere w. his leather bookplate on verso frontwrapper. Very rare devotional book. This edition not found.
- Title in later pen and black ink on backstrip. Fine copy.
= The first volume only. Buisman 2135 (with the second vol., publ. anonymously Amst., 1644); Muller 48 (first vol.) and 49 (second vol. in another (later) edition). This edition not in the STCN (lists 2 other editions publ. Amst., 1643, also the first vol. only).
- Lacks 1 leaf (L1); title-p. and endpapers sl. soiled.
= Landwehr, VOC 1542-1543; Tiele 1015; Cat. NHSM p.1039; Mendelssohn II, p.413f; Waller 1573; Buisman 2147; Muller 504 and cf. 503; De Vries 242; Scheepers I, 432 ("Zeldzaam"). "Een merkwaardige, realistische schildering der ruwe zeden te platten lande, van het bekkesnijden, enz. Het is geschreven in een ruwe en platte, maar origineele taal, vol "pictorial sayings", die evenwel voor den salon minder bruikbaar zijn." (Muller 503). The third part of the work, De gelukzoeker over zee, of de Afrikaansche weg-wyzer, gives an extensive account of Dutch settlements at the Cape, Madagascar and Mauritius, and encourages emigration to southern Africa for people who can not make a livelihood in their native country. The fourth part, Aziaansche Weg-wyzer, deals with the East-Indies and contains a description of the imaginary Isle of Pines (first published ±1660). Rare.
- From the library of Bob Luza w. his bookplate on upper pastedown; later owner's entry on first free endpaper "J.H. Verheijen". A very fine copy.
= With the often lacking fold. plate. Waller 1065 and Muller 787 (both mentioning 3 plates); Buisman 2151; Mateboer 890; Hayn/ Gotendorf III, p.449. The Dutch translation of the Histoire de la Papesse Jeanne by Jacques Lenfant (and later revised by Des Vignoles) by the anonymous "A.M.", a biography of the much debated legendary female pope Johanna. The French version was a popularisation of the Disquisitio historica de papa femina (1691) by the Leyden professor Frederik Spanheim in which he tried to prove the existence of Johanna. The plates showing i.a. "den zoo genaamden Schouw- of Drek-stoel" and Pope Johanna caught in the sexual act.
- Plate of the war of the books trifle yellowed; both vols. bound slightly too tight. Paper over covers rubbed/ sl. worn. Otherwise fine.
= Rare complete copy, with the VERY RARE second volume. Buisman 2225; Waller 1637; Muller 178; De Vries 252; Scheepers II, 589; Jagtenberg 27.
- Lacks lower pastedown; occas. trifle stained; bookblock sl. loose. Covers scratched; lower cover lacks sm. portion. Without the 2 extra portraits that are sometimes bound with (not mentioned by the bibliographers).
= Jöcher IV, 1165; Buisman 1334; Scheepers II, 992.
- Most leaves thumbed/ fingersoiled; partly (water)stained; old owner's entries on first free endpaper and verso final free endpaper. Recased copy.
= From the library of M. Buisman (owner's entry on first free endpaper). Rare edition, not in the usual reference works, and no copy in STCN or STCV.