- Sm. stamps on title-p. Covers worn; backstrip almost entirely worn away.
= Vol. 12 of the series Volledige beschrijving van alle konsten, ambachten, handwerken (...).
- Yellowed/ sl. foxed. Bindings rather heavily worn. = Rius I, 485.
- All vols. binding worn along extremities; boards loose(ning). = Rius I, 495.
- Lacks 2 plates and final 2 text lvs.; new endpapers; owner's entry "G. Kuipers"' on first free endpaper; frontisp. remargined; waterstained in lower margin throughout.
= Cf. Rius 800; Arents 4 (both ed. Amst., 1670).
- Yellowed. Binding heavily worn; upper joint split, only holding on 3 cords.
= Rius I, p.806; Cohen/ De Ricci p.216: "Superbes illustrations; livre très recherché".
- Lacks htitle; engr. title lacks portion of outer blank margin; yellowed/ sl. browned.
= From the collection of M. Buisman with his owner's entry on first free endpaper. Rius II, 473; Arents 171; Ashbee 331; Buisman 74 (16 plates) and cf. Waller 184, Muller 79 and Scheepers II, 731 and 731A (all 1st ed., Amst., 1706). Pseudonym of F.L. Aliagra, who published a continuation of the first part of the Don Quixote by Cervantes in 1614, one year before the latter published his second part. With use of engr. title Amst., A. van Damme/ J. Ratelband, 1718, also listed as 2nd edition.
- Very fine copy.
= Cat. NHSM p.573; Henze IV, p.589f; De Silva p.488. The first edition was simultaneously published in French in Paris and Amsterdam in 1701, and was translated from the original manuscript in Portuguese, and first published in Portuguese in 1836. Rare. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXXVII.
BOUND WITH: Catrou, F. Histoire général de l'Empire du Mogol depuis sa fondation: Sur les Memoires portugais de M. Manouchi, Venitien. The Hague, J. van Duren, 1735, (24),380p., fold. engr. map of "l'Empire du Mogol sur les memoires du Mr. Manouchi".
- Fine. = Rare.
- Contemp. owner's entry on title-p. ("C. de Tuyl"); waterst. at the end; final 2 lvs. and backwr. w. sm. hole; occas. sl. soiled. Rebacked; wrappers creased and worn.
= Cioranescu 16918; Quérard II, p.141. Rare.
AND 3 others by the same, all 20th cent. Dutch translations.
- Sl. foxed; partly browned; 2 lvs. loose. Backstrip for the larger part worn away; covers worn.
= Van der Linde 1391. A. Rueb Stichting 466. First Dutch edition.
- Lacks 1 plate (depicting trees) in the second part; blank outer margin of the frontisp. renewed and a repaired tear; index leaves and title-p. of second part browned.
= Landwehr, VOC 544; Tiele 304; Cordier, Sinica 2348 and 27; Lipperheide Le4; Lust 507. The first edition, describing the 2nd and 3rd embassies of the VOC to China, with accounts of the events on Formosa and a description of China. The second part in second issue with the 4 folding plates with reproductions of Chinese illustrations, always lacking in the first issue. The plates and illustrations show a great variety of (large) town views, architecture, customs, natural history etc.
- Some lvs. dogeared or larger fold in corner; vol. 1 tear in title. Both vols. lack binding.
= Very rare. Cordier p.1011-1021: "Cette collection forme ainsi 4 volumes (...) ces lettres ne sont pas imprimées, mais autographiées; elles n'ont pas circulation dans le public et elles conservent encore la caractère de documents privé".
- Some sl. occas. yellowing/ foxing; engr. title sl. dustsoiled and some imperfections in blank margins; verso of most fold. maps/ plates strengthened on folds and occas. w. sm. tears; 1 ill. partially handcol. Binding rubbed/ worn; backcover w. small stain.
= The first and only Dutch edition. Lust 39; Dünnhaupt 2343; Cordier, Bibl. Sinica 26; Lipperheide Le 3 (ed. Antw., 1667); De Backer/ Sommervogel IV, p.24; "P. Athanasius Kircher S.J. gehört zu den umstrittenen barocken Universalgelehrten, die zugleich Bahnbrecher der modernen Wissenschaften, aber durch die feste Verwurzelung in überkommenen Ansichten auch deren Hemnisse waren. Kirchers Werk bedeutete einen Meilenstein in der europäischen Chinakenntnis. Die Fülle des von Kircher verarbeiteten Materials wie auch die superben Abbildungen machten das Werk zu einem der meistgelesensten Chinabücher der frühen Neuzeit." (China illustrata p. 94-97). SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXXVIII.
- Frontisp. loose; occas. sl. yellowed. Upper joint split.
= The "Paolinxi Pagode", mentioned in the binder's instructions, was actually only inserted in the Latin edition of 1668. Landwehr, VOC 539; Tiele 800; Cat. NHSM I, 499; Lust 539; Cordier, Bibl. Sinica p. 2344. Walravens, China illustrata 63/64 (later German editions): "Nieuhofs Chinawerk ist bis heute eines der bedeutendsten und gesuchtesten. Allein die 150 Abbildungen und Karten, die das Buch zieren und die nach Zeichnungen des Autors aufgeführt wurden, haben beachtlichen Wert. Bis weit in das 18.Jahrhundert hinein wurden sie immer wieder nachgedruckt und nachgeschnitten und prägten weitgehend das Chinabild der Zeit". The double-p. plates mainly depicting panoramic city views. "Was aber seinem Buch den höchsten Wert verleiht ist die Fülle prachtvollster Kupfertafeln von Städten, Landschaften, Volkstypen" (Henze). SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXXVIII.
- Sm. bookplate on upper pastedown. Later ms. title on spine. = Landwehr F062. Very rare.
- Endpapers trifle yellowed/ foxed. Corners showing; spine-ends worn/ sl/ dam.
= Schweiger, p.728; not in Dibdin.
- Binding rubbed.
AND 3 others i.a. A. GELLIUS, Noctium Atticarum libri XX (Zweibrücken, 1784, engr. title vignette, contemp. hcalf).
- Lacks prize and free endpapers; partly (sl.) waterst. Vellum soiled; boardedges sl. worn; lacks ties.
= Schweiger p.1136; Brunet V, p.1178: "Édition la plus estimée"; Lipsius/ Leitzmann p.423; Spoelder 10.
Lomeier, J. Epimenides sive De veterum gentilium lustrationibus syntagma. Zutphen, J. van Spyk and D. Schutten, 1700, 2nd ed., (30),485,(46)p., engr. title-vignette, 18 plates, contemp. vellum, 4to.
- Lacks frontisp. and (free) endpapers; partly browned; some quires loosening. Frontcover and backstrip (almost) loose and dam.; sl. stained.
= Rare copy of Lomeier's work on propitiatory sacrifices in Antiquity. Graesse IV, p.250.
- Bookplate with coat of arms of Moseley family on upper pastedown; a few lvs. sl. waterst. in margin; scattered later annots. Covers loose but holding on cords; sl. worn/ dam. at backstrip and along extremities.
= Schweiger p.1136; Lipsius/ Leitzmann p.423.
- Bookblock loose; blank margin of title-p. cut off; occas. sl. stained. Vellum soiled.
= Rare ed. of works by Luccan Neolatin poet Bartolomeo Beverini (1629-1686).
Secundus, J. Opera. Ed. P. Scriverius. Leyden, F. Hegerus (= Ph. de Croy), 1631, (28),384p., engr. title, portrait, later boards, 12mo.
- A few lvs. sl. dam. (and repaired); contents otherwise fine. Binding dam./ worn at backstrip (lacks portion) and extremities.
= Willems 1669 note; Rahir 1849. The third edition (first edition published in Leyden, 1612). "L'édition de 1651 reproduit textuellement la précédente [= ed. 1631], elle a le même titre gravé et le même portrait, mais elle est plus jolie et son format se rapproche davantage de l'in-12 elzevirien." (Willems).
AND 1 other.