- From the library of J. Ploos van Amstel w. his owner's entry on verso frontcover. Text leaves loose. Boards restored (rebacked).
= Large paper copy. The views numbered 101-200 (some double-p. plates are counted as 4 views). One of the finest series of views depicting the Netherlands in the 18th century.
- Occas. sl. yellowed/ foxed; endpapers sl. browned. Bindings sl. worn/ rubbed; 3 vols. joints starting/ splitting. Otherwise a fine set.
= Haitsma Mulier/ Van der Lem 513e.
- First blanks and title-p. loose; mounted portrait of the author on upper pastedown; vaguely waterst. at the beginning.
= Knuttel 561. William of Orange's famous defence against the Banedict, first published 1581.
AND 2 others, i.a. L'ABBÉ RAYNAL, Histoire du Stadhouderat. Depuis son Origine jusqu'a Present (Amst., 1749, rev. ed., fold. genealogical table, 1 ill., contemp. calf).
- Bookplate (Sir Joseph Verdin) on upper pastedown of vol. 1; both vols. lack htitle; vol. 2 lacks the book advertisements; both vols. sl. foxed (also affecting the plates/ maps). Upper joint of vol. 1 weak; backstrips sl. worn and spine-ends partly chipped.
= Ferguson 690.
- Pastedowns lacking/ loosening; first blanks creased. Joints splitting; backstrip dam.; vellum over frontcover loosening at turn-ins.
= Tiele 799; Howgego N25; Bosch 145; Borba de Moraes II, 614; Sabin 55278; Lipperheide Md 2; Nissen ZBI 2975; Balders 1075; Landwehr, VOC 282; Hill 1227. "His (...) travels in Brazil and the East Indies appeared posthumously in 1682, edited from his notes and papers by his brother Hendrik. Both volumes were lavishly produced and bore engravings taken from Nieuhof's sketches." (Howgego). SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE C.
- Formerly folded; two small holes in the folds.
= A poem with 24 strophes lamenting the casualties of the flood of 4-6 february 1825 in part of Noord-Holland with i.a. topographical references to Broek in Waterland, Hoorn, Schellinkwoude en de Wijde Wormer. Rare.
- Good untrimmed copy; cl. sl. worn.
= Patent application regarding sea dikes in the Wieringerwaard, in which the polder administrators also discuss the problems they encounter during the construction works: i.a. whenever the dikes had reached the intended height, subsidence occurred. Van Zwet, Lofwaerdighe dijckagies en miserabele polders (Hilv., 2009), p.104f.
- Lacks part 5 (containing 7 plates). Bindings dustsoiled and sl. worn along edges. Contents fine.
= Lipsius/ Leitzman, suppl. p.81.
- First lvs. loose(ning); partly yellowed/ foxed. = Rare folio edition. Cf. Lipsius/ Leitzmann p.261.
- Lacks pastedowns; bookplate on verso frontcover; occas. trifle yellowed. Ticket mounted on frontcover.
= Lipsius/ Leitzmann p.261.
- Title-p. lacks portion w. loss of title and doubled w. contemp. paper and reattached w. sellotape; first 2 plates cut/ (almost) torn in half along fold; a few lvs. w. offsetting; occas. sl. stained/ foxed. Covers/ corners sl. worn.
= Lipsius/ Leitzmann p.261.
- Occas. sl. yellowed; vol. 3 w. 19th cent. owner's ticket on verso of first free endpaper. Corners sl. worn; covers rubbed/ sl. worn and partly stained.
= Lipsius/ Leitzmann p.261; Clain/ Stefanelli 14862; Graesse IV, p.521; Ebert 14022.
- Lacks 1 numismatical plate (no.5); title doubled. Binding restored.
= Lipsius/ Leitzmann p.301.
- Pastedowns loosening; owner's entry on title-p. Otherwise fine.
= Ad 1: Lipsius/ Leitzmann p.308. Ad 2: Not in L./ L.
- Lacks 2 text lvs. (p.59-62); new endpapers; left margin title-p. sticking to first free endpaper; a few other lvs. at the beginning sticking together along inner margin; sl. yellowed and fingersoiled. Vellum duststained.
= Landwehr, Romeyn de Hooghe as Book Illustrator, 56.
- Owner's entry on upper pastedown; trifle waterstained in lower outer corner. Spine-ends and corners sl. worn; lacking headcap. Otherwise a good copy.
Bellarmino, R. De septem verbis a Christo in cruce prolatis libri duo. Cologne, B. Wolter, 1618, (16),293p., engr. title-vignette, modern hcl., 12mo.
- Bookplate and owner's entry on upper endpaper; pencil annot. on title-p. Sl. worn at edges; otherwise fine.
- Sm. tear in upper part touching illustration; new endpapers.
- A fine copy.
= Ad 2: title part 2: Aanmerkingen op de beschuldigingen, raakende de heeren gebroederen de Witten, van Lambert van den Bos in zynen Reysenden Mercurius deselve heeren te last gelegd (1674); title part 3: Vervolg der aenmerkingen tegen Lambert van den Bos, door den zelven schryver.
- Occas. sl. foxed. Covers sl. warped.
= Incl. his "Geestige en vermaekelijke Reys-beschryving (...) Naer Oost-Indien uytgevaren voor Raet van Justitie, in den Jare 1668". Scheepers II, 235; Waller 1305 (10th ed.); Scheurleer p.182; cf. Landwehr, VOC 1540 (note).
- Vol. 3 partly waterst. and sl. mouldy. Bindings sl. worn and dustsoiled.