- Both vols. waterstained: text vol. waterstaining increasing towards the end; plate-vol. waterstained and partly mouldy. Both vols. binding stained/ worn; plate vol. lacks backstrip. Sold w.a.f.
= Vol. 1, part 1: "Etwas von Stammtafelen und vollständige Sammlung aller im Gülisch-ritterbürtigen Collegio vorh. aufgeschwornen ritterbürtigen Familien-Wapen"; vol. 1, part 2: "Vollständige Sammlung der im Kurkölnisch-ritterbürtigen Collegio zu Bonn und im Westphälisch-ritterbürtigen Collegio zu Arensberg aufgeschwornen vorhandenen Familien-Wapen"; plate vol.: 170 engr. plates.
= Genealogy of the Plantin Moretus family.
- A few lvs. w. vague narrow waterst. in upper blank margin; sharp fold in first free endpaper; upper and lower hinge weak at spine-ends. Binding sl. soiled; boardedges rubbed, backstrip repaired at top.
- Most plates (sl.) foxed. Contents of text vol. fine. Bindings sl. rubbed and leather sl. dried.
= Vol. I of Jones' Great Britain Illustrated.
- Occas. sl. foxed. Bindings sl. worn; joints split(ting); rebacked; vol. 2 frontcover loose. = Lowndes p.1424.
= "It is difficult to overestimate the importance of Anacharsis in the development of French neo-classicism and in the creation of philhellenic sentiment" (Blackmer 83). This first Dutch edition is quite rare.
- First few preliminary leaves of vol.1 loose(ning). Frontcover vol. 1 sl. stained; top of spine frayed and foot of spine worn; both vols. corners worn/ rubbed and backcover (sl.) scratched; both vols. edges of bookblock sl. spotted/ stained.
= Rare work on Zakynthos. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XXXIII.
- First work, first vol. lacks 11 plates and maps foxed in upper blank right corner; second vol. hinges strengthened and occas. sl. dam. and/ or sl. fingersoiled in blank margins; second work (Geschichte von Parga) several closed tears in margin of the heraldic frontisp.
= Rare work on the colourful and checkered history of the Greek town of Parga which is situated southeast of Corfu. Holzmann-Bohatta VI, 8076.
- Sl. waterst. and -wrinkled copy w. many lvs. restored w. japanese in outer margin. = Cat. NHSM p.296.
Goddio, F. and Guyot de Saint Michel, E.J. Griffin. On the Route of an Indiaman. London, Periplus, 1999, 351p., num. (col.) (photogr.) ills., orig. giltlettered artif. leather w. dustwr., in matching artif. leather slipcase, folio. - AND 5 others, incl. M.J.P. and J.M.J. VAN OIJEN (ed. and transl.), Von Siebold's reis naar het hof van de Shogun in het jaar 1826. Een ontdekkingstocht door Japan (Amst., 2005, num. (col.) ills, orig. boards, 4to).
- All but the first work (near) fine.
- Lacks htitle and fold. map (photocopy of map present); a few leaves trifle foxed.
= Rare, even in this incomplete condition.
- Lacks vol.3. Maps and plans mostly yellowed/ browned. Vol.1 covers loose and vol.2 without covers.
= Contains i.a. a fine panorama of Calcutta (of which Cox (quoting Maggs) writes: "The large engraved view of Calcutta should alone be worth the value of the entire work". Cox I, p.300 (on the ed. 1763-1778).
- Sl. foxed. Leather on central panel almost completely worn off; joints splitting at top of spine; 1 corner breaking.
= Contains nice views of Venice, Rimini, Milan, Lake Como, Lake Maggiore, Sorrento, Florence, Lake Lugano, Rome, Pozzuoli, Naples and Domodossola.
- A few plates sl. foxed; final 5 plates increasingly waterstained; partly sl. dogeared. Wrappers waterstained.
- Backstrip rubbed. Fine copy.
= Dutch adaptation of the Code Napoléon, replaced in 1811 (after Louis Napoléon's abdication) by the original unchanged French version.
- The plates w. some usual foxing. Otherwise fine.
BOUND WITH: the text only of the English ed.
- Lacks the plates. Text and binding fine.
= Rare Dutch translation of Neueste Beschreibung derer Griechischen Christen in der Türckey (...) (Berlin, 1737). Cf. Blackmer Collection 546. Rare.
- Contents fine and complete. Spine cracked at two places.
= The first and only Dutch edition. Tiele 1103; Nissen ZBI, 4157 and Hunt 445; Blackmer sale 329 (French edition, 1717) and Atabey 959-961 (various editions). "Joseph Pitton de Tournefort (1656-1708) was one of the greatest botanists of his time, discovering many new plant species during his travels in the Levant." (Blackmer). "The botanist Pitton de Tournefort set out for the Levant in 1700 on a mission for Louis XIV. He was accompanied by the artist Claude Aubriet, whose drawings were engraved for the work, and by the doctor Gundelsheimer. The party travelled extensively in the Greek archipelago and Crete, continuing on to Constantinople and Asia Minor, then overland to Persia, returning to Paris in 1702." (Atabey).