- Sl. yellowed. Binding lacks ties.
= Spoelder 9. With schoolprize to Ludovicus Franciscus van Outhoorn, dated 16 April 1829. Schweiger p.832.
- Without the prize; engr. title, preliminary leaves and several quires towards the end browned (the latter affecting text). Spine-ends and corners trifle rubbed, binding otherwise in fine condition.
= Spoelder 4; Schweiger p.504.
- Sl. yellowed. Otherwise fine.
= The rare first edition. Dünnhaupt 633, 155, 1. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE CIV.
- Blank verso final leaf sl. stained. Boardedges sl. chafed.
= Funck p.281; BCNI 8801; Hollstein 24. The plates show the massacre of Friars Minor by the 'Geusen' at Antwerp and Brussels during the independence war against Spain, ca. 1575-1590.
- A fine and clean copy w. some minor defects: 2 plates w. portion of blank margin torn out; occas. trifle/ sl. stained/ foxed in margin. Bindings sl. rubbed; sl. worn along edges; 3 vols. joints starting/ splitting.
= LARGE PAPER COPY, attractively bound. Haitsma Mulier/ Van der Lem 75c; Klaversma/ Hannema 271-274; Van Eeghen/ Van der Kellen 9. "Het is ongetwijfeld de rijkste en echtste bron voor de geschiedenis van dat tijdvak." (Van der Wind p.241). With the plate of the stranded whale. The (remarkable) bindings prob. from a bindery in The Hague/ Amst., first quarter 18th cent. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE CIV.
- Upper hinge broken; title-p. loosening/ dam. and w. contemp. owner's annot.; bookplate on upper pastedown; owner's entry on first blank.
= Pirated edition by Amst. printer Abraham Wolfgang, appearing in the same year as the original French ed. Cf. PMM 157; Brunet I, 1134.
- Partly sl. foxed (one textleaf stained).
- Vellum dustsoiled (mostly on backstrip). Otherwise fine.
= Nijhoff/ Van Hattum 110; Haitsma Mulier/ Van der Lem 184a.
- Without the portrait; sl. waterst in lower margin at the beginning. Portion of backstrip loosening at top of spine.
= Unger C; Waller 328; Scheepers I, no.90, Scheurleer, Liedboeken, p.143. On the frontispiece by Jan van de Velde II, Hollstein 429, 2nd state of 2.
- Contemp. owner's entries on upper pastedown and final free endpaper; partly waterstained and mouldy; one quire loose. Covers. sl. warped.
= Unger D, the second collected edition.
- Restored tear in upper margin, touching the image. = The engraving dated 1726.
Brandt, C. Een Christen in zyn kamer. Broadside, ±50x38,5 cm., letterpress text in 3 columns by C. BRANDT below an engraving by G. VAN GOUWEN after P. TIDEMAN, Amst., L. Renkink, n.d. (1743). - AND 9 other broadsides and similar publications.
- New endpapers; sm. library stamp on title; fore-edge sl. waterstained; occas. trifle yellowed/ foxed along edges. Vellum sl. warped.
- Occas. trifle foxed; stain on verso htitle. A fine copy. = Nijhoff/ Van Hattum 50. The first illustrated edition.
- Sl. yellowed throughout. A good copy. = Nijhoff/ Van Hattum 50. The first illustrated edition.
- Hinges weak/ broken (upper hinge strengthened). Vellum wrinkled.
= LARGE PAPER COPY. From the collection of M. Buisman w. his owner's entry on first free endpaper.
- Lacks 1plate and lacks ties. Otherwise fine.
= With the manuscript prize bound in at front, awarded to Henrdik Willem Brantsen, on "Arnhem, XIV Martii1785". On the binding Spoelder 2. Cf. Brunet VI, 19165.
= Cf. Waller 245 (ed. 1828). The rare first edition.
= Waller 245. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE CV.
- Lacks frontisp. and 2(?) plates; partly lvs. yellowed/ sl. browned; a few lvs. w. wormholes in upper inner corner; a few other sm. defects. Second volume rebound; first volume upper joint splitting.
= Howgego L43; Sabin 38415 (wrong collation of the plates); Alden/ Landis 725/121; Cat. NHSM I, p.268; Tiele 623; Von Hünersdorff/ Hasenkamp p.836; Mueller, Kakao p.29. "Labat went to the West Indies as a Dominican Missionary, and gives in this, his most famous work, details of all the islands he visited, and notably of Martinique and Guadeloupe. He speaks also of many of the smaller islands; of some of them this is the only early information we possess. He gives accounts of the cultivation of tobacco, sugar, indigo, etc., and many anecdotes of the inhabitants." (Cox II, p.235). Also on slavery, local history, flora and fauna, illustrated by various plates. The first Dutch edition with the same plates as the first French 8vo ed., published Paris 1722.
- Several plates w. (sm.) defects: rebacked w. Japanese, (sl.) stained, closed tears, strengthened margins; washed. Spine rebacked w. use of most of orig. backstrip; corners restored.
= Cole 1-26, 28-67, 69-73 and suppl. plates 3, 4, 6 and 7. Biting satirical caricatures of The Great Mirror of Folly. "In neither of these [France and England] did there appear such a stout and extravagant piece as this Dutch volume" (Cole). SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE CV.