- Lacks silk ties. Fine copies.
= With the letterpress prize ("Eerste eerprijs") w. calligr. entries bound in at front of the first volume presented to "A.W. Ockerse(...) 17 Julij, 1807"; cf. De prijs is het bewijs 45. On the works: Van der Haar 2, 845 (first volume); vol. 2 not in Van der Haar. Very rare first Dutch translations of Contemplations on the Ocean, Harvest (...) and the Last Judgment, (London, 1753) and of Meditations on Butterflies (...) (London, ±1753).
- Spine sl. rubbed; covers lack ties.
= With printed schoolprize awarded to "Florentio Wilhelmo van Styrum", dated 1815. Floris Willem van Styrum (1801-1873) was a Dutch politician and judge. Spoelder 3.
AND 1 similar schoolprize binding of Haarlem, w. prize awarded to the same.
- Trifle yellowed/ foxed. Covers lack ties.
= With printed schoolprize awarded to "Floris Gulielmo van Styrum", dated 1818. Floris Willem van Styrum (1801-1873) was a Dutch politician and judge. Spoelder 3.
AND 1 similar schoolprize binding of Haarlem, w. prize awarded to the same.
- Lacks schoolprize. = Spoelder 3.
- Without the prize. Without ties. Good copy. = Spoelder 4.
- Contents foxed, otherwise fine. Covers w. some tiny scratches; corners, joints and spine-ends (sl.) worn.
- Library stamp on first free endpaper and title; contemp. owner's entry on title; pastedowns loose. Turn-ins loose(ning); vellum trifle soiled.
- Annots. on upper pastedown. Vellum over joints split (but holding well); spine dam. = Graesse I, p.441.
- Without vol.1; lacks title-p. and 1 textleaf; one leaf (p.521-522) lacks upper half; a few lvs w. (closed) tear/ occas. chipped/ loosening; lower hinge weak. Vellum duststained.
= Waller 276; Muller 87 ("Zeer zeldzaam"); Buisman 185.
- Title and first 2 textlvs. torn in inner margin from sticking to 2nd blank; upper hinge weak; partly (vaguely) waterst. in upper margin throughout; one page w. inkstain and sm. hole, affecting text. Joints split(ting); backstrip and corners rubbed/ worn.
= BM Italian p.117.
- Binding rubbed/ sl. worn along extremities. = Fine large paper copy. Brooks 135.
- Annots. on first free endpaper and blank; libr. stamp on verso engr. title; portion of lower margin of title-p. cut out. Rebacked.
= Rare. Epitome/ compilation of the work of the German philosophical mystic Jakob Böhme. "Gedruckt und ans Liecht gegeben durch eine über den Verlust Josephs mit-bekümmerte Seele" (on title-p.). Buddecke I, p.95, 46.
- Title rubbed and w. contemp. owner's entry/ annots.; plate stained and w. closed tear in fold; waterst. nearly throughout; some scattered contemp. underlining. Binding worn along extremities.
= Buddecke II, 1.
- Pastedowns loose; foxed and sl. yellowed. Vellum soiled.
= Popular work of Giovanni Bona (1609-1674), an Italian Cistercian, cardinal, liturgist and devotional author. Originally published as Manuductio ad caelum in 1658, and often compared to [Thomas à Kempis'] "Imitation of Christ" on account of simplicity of the style in which the solid doctrine is taught" (Catholic Encyclopedia, New York 1913, vol.2, online version). With 6 extra mounted engr. emblematic ills. inserted.
Schoenius, W. De weg der suyverheyt van d'Hollantse maegden. Antw. [= Haarlem], N. Braeu, 1685, 316,(4)p., engr. title, contemp. calf w. gilt spine, sm. 8vo.
- Hinges broken but holding on cords; contents occas. (finger)soiled (incl. title); two owner's entries on first free endpaper.
AND 3 others, i.a. C. MOLINA, Den oprechten, schriftuerlycken Roomsch-Catholycken Mondt-Stopper (Antw., 1739, contemp. vellum).
- Bookplate on upper pastedown; some scattered contemp. annots. Vellum sl. soiled/ stained.
= BCNI 13134.
(Marius, L. and Machilsen, P.). Kerkelyke Getyden van de Hoogwaerdige Moeder Gods, Zo als die in de Roomse kerk in 't gebruik zyn, Met de uytlegging van die. Antw., "P.M. Voor den Auteur", n.d. (±1655), (64),149p., engr. title-vignette, woodcut ill., later vellum. - BOUND WITH: Verscheyde Litanien Gheordineert op die seven dagen vande Weke. Hier achter is by ghevoeght de seven Psalmen van Penitentie. Louvain, N. van Borculo, 1672, 128p., 11 woodcut ills.
- Rebound; first title libr. stamp on recto and verso; 2nd work one textleaf w. closed tear; extensive (later) annots. on blanks.
Wael van Vronesteyn, G. de. Corona sacratissimorum Iesu Christi vulnerum XXXV. considerationibus ex sacra scriptura sanctis patribus historia ecclesiastica potissimum desumptis illustrata. Ibid., C. Woons, 1654, 3rd rev. and enl. ed., (22),416,(11)p., engr. title, 4 (of 5) full-p. ills. by ADRIAEN LOMMELIN, 8 ills., contemp. overlapping vellum.
- Lacks one leaf w. full-p. ill. Upper hinge weak; title w. owner's entry and libr. stamp. Vellum soiled/ stained; backstrip cracked/ sl. dam.
= De Backer/ Sommervogel VIII, p.932; BCNI 11108.
- Calf worn/ dam. along extremities; gilding occas. sl. worn.
= On the coat of arms: Guigard p.166. Louis-César de Crémaux, marquis of Entragues (1689-1747) served as gouvernor of Mâcon and lieutenant-general of the King. His sexual preferences led him to retain various young (male and female) servants and prostitutes in his Paris residence; he was arrested for sodomy in a sting operation in 1724 (see J. MERRICK, Sodomy in eighteenth-century France (2020), p.147).
- Both vols. bookplate and stamps on first endpaper. Spine-ends restored. = Brunet I, p.1135.
- Hinges (sl.) widening between p.VI and VII and at the end. Professionally rebacked w. use of the original spine. Otherwise a fine copy.
= The first English edition of Bougainville's Voyage autour du monde, which was first published in Paris in 1771. "His widely read account, Voyage autour du monde (1771; A Voyage Round the World, 1772), helped popularize a belief in the moral worth of man in his natural state, a concept of considerable significance in the French thought of his day." (Encyclopaedia Brittannica, online article). Hill 165; Sabin 6869; Borba de Moraes I, p.115; Howgego B141.
- Old bookplate on title-p. Binding sl. rubbed; joints splitting at spine-ends. = Cioranescu 13210.
- Lacks two (of 3) frontisp. plates; both fold. plates badly creased and torn; without letterpress title. Binding rubbed/ chafed; joints worn/ splitting; corners worn.