- With contemp. owner's entry on upper pastedown by "Alexandri Swevers", dated 1642; contemp. annots. and underlining throughout; sl. yellowed; hinges weak; 20th cent. catalogue clipping mounted on first free endpaper and w. owner's stamp of F. Donnet. Vellum sl. darkened; lacks ties.
= Account of the Eighty Years' War from the perspective of a catholic Italian priest. Very rare.
- One index-leaf w. tear. Joints starting at spine-ends. A fine copy.
= Haitsma Mulier/ Van der Lem 35e; Cf. Bibl. Belgica B113. Important source for the Eighty-Year's war, listing numerous details both in the text as well as in the illustrations. Rare, complete copy. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XCVII.
- Lacks pastedowns; waterstained throughout; bookplate on upper pastedown.
= Willems 78; Rahir 64; Haitsma Mulier/ Van der Lem 36a. The best old source on the history of the Twaalfjarig Bestand written by "een man van losse zeden, overgegeven aan het onmatig gebruik van den wijn en aan de ontucht (...) In alle andere opzigten was hij een uitstekend man." (De Wind p.514).
- Verso title (cancelled) libr. stamp; title trifle foxed; upper hinge split.
= Haitsma Mulier/ Van der Lem 63e; Valkema Blouw 684; not in Adams. Including a genealogy of prominent families in Friesland and Holland, a genealogy of the heroes of Leyden and Wassenaar, a history of the Batavians and an account of the Roman emperor Caligula's alleged visit to Holland.
- Lacks 1 portrait; third vol. portrait laid down on adjacent leaf; occas. sl. yellowed. Corners bumped; ties lacking; vol. 1 upper joint splitting.
= Haitsma Mulier/ Van der Lem 75c; De Wind p. 240-243; Volmuller p.90; De Buck 2294 (ed. 1679-1684). The rare first edition of the much enlarged, complete edition (a 'preliminary' edition was published in 1595 (3 parts) and 1601 (3 parts)).
- Occas. sl. foxed/ yellowed (vol. 4 sl. worse). Otherwise a good/ fine complete set.
= Haitsma Mulier/ Van der Lem 86c.
- Contents sl. yellowed.
= Bodel Nijenhuis 95; Haitsma Mulier/ Van der Lem 86c. ("Het gedeelte van Brouërius loopt tot deel 2, p.145, daarna nam Le Long het werk over (zie: 309c.)").
- Only text vols. Lacks all plates by A. Rademaker. All vols. w. library ticket on upper pastedown ("Bibl. F.F.Min. Capuccinorum") and scattered library stamps.
- Fine copy. = De Buck 1654. First edition of this anonymous chronicle.
- Contents foxed. Binding sl. rubbed; frontcover 2nd vol. dam. spot.
= First and only edition of this very charming series, i.a. by Madou and Jombard, with views of the Benelux countries. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XCIX.
- Vol. 2 (sl.) browned/ yellowed almost throughout. = Haitsma Mulier/ Van der Lem 114a.
- Endpapers and title sl. browned in margins. Binding sl. worn; top of spine chipped. = Pohler I, p.496.
- First ±50 lvs. w. a few sm. wormholes. Binding (sl.) worn along extremities; backcover sl. chafed. Good copy.
= Haitsma Mulier/ Van der Lem 187a. "De invloed, dien de "Divisie-kroniek" geoefend heeft, is moeilijk te overschatten. Zij vatte a.h.w. nog eenmaal al het oude weten omtrent het vaderlandsch verleden samen (...) en bleef (...) dé vraagbaak voor het leekenpubliek, tot Wagenaar haar sedert 1749 zou verdringen" (Romein).
- Pastedowns loosening; bookplate of W.C. Baert de Waarde on first free endpaper; lvs. occas. sl. creased. Binding trifle stained; upper joint starting; lacks one tie. Otherwise a (very) fine copy.
= Ter Meulen/ Diermanse 749; Van Eeghen/ Van der Kellen 38; Klaversma/ Hannema 585/ 586. The only Dutch edition (first Latin ed. 1657).
- Yellowed/ sl. browned; occas. sm. tears in margins plates; "Bibliotheca Hafflighemensis anno 1768" on title both vols.; scattered library stamps. Binding worn along extremities.
= De Buck 7572; Haitsma Mulier/ Van der Lem 2226. Contains: I. Historia, seu notitia episcopatus Ultrejectensis. II. Historia, seu notitia episcopatus Harlemensis. III. Daventriensis. IV. Leovardiensis. V. Groningensis. VI. Middelburgensis.
- Without the portrait, as in many copies acc. to Leendertz; partly sl. yellowed and (vaguely) waterst.; one leaf loose. Vellum dam.; upper joint split; backstrip loosening.
= Willems 986; Rahir 977; Leendertz 123 and 124.
- Occas. sl. yellowed/ browned (part XV-XVI sl. worse).
- Title w. owner's stamp; upper hinge strengthened w. paper tape; occas. sl. foxed. Upper joint splitting; backcover sl. soiled/ stained.
= Wildenberg 1111; Knuttel, Verboden boeken 4; Geyl 7; Schumpeter p.368. Revised and enlarged edition of the "Interest van Holland".
- Upper endpaper sl. dam.; partly. sl. wormholed in inner margin; otherwise fine.
= Wildenberg 1051; Haitsma Mulier/ Van der Lem 126a. The very rare true first edition, with pagination "209" instead of "233".
- Lacks 3 portraits, a few portraits loose(ning); pastedowns loose(ning); vol. 2 and 3 partly sl. mouldy and (vaguely) waterst. in lower corner. Bindings sl. stained and w. minor imperfections.
= Haitsma Mulier/ Van der Lem 110-l; Klaversma/ Hannema 816-818; Van Eeghen/ Van der Kellen 474.