- Occas. sl. foxing, first free endpaper and first blank sl. frayed. Vellum soiled; lower cover sm. dam. spot; lower joint partly split; vellum over boards loosening on turn-ins.
= Geerebaert p.145 (ed. 1671). Bound with P.C. HOOFT, Paris oordeel. Tafelspel (Amst., 1703, engr. title-vignette).
- Title cut sl. short in right margin; occas. sl. soiled. Upper joint splitting. Otherwise a fine copy.
= Title-edition of the editions published for J.J. Schipper, P. Robyn, D.C. Houthaek, J. Jansz and J. van Hilten, all Amsterdam, 1643. Very rare, this ed. not in STCN. Cf. Schweiger p.685f; Leendertz 69.
- A later paper piece mounted on verso of title-page and last leaf, somewhat shining through; last few quires with stain near inner margin; lvs. (sl.) browned.
= Geerebaert CXXII, 1 (l); De Rynck/ Welckenhuysen p.276; cat. Ovidius herschapen 19; not in Muller, De Vries, Scheepers, Waller.
- Without the 3rd vol. (publ. 1751); both vols. w. a few scattered (library) stamps and first blanks loose(ning); some foxing; hinges sl. weak. Bindings sl. worn; spine-ends dam.
= Illustrated overview of Giovanni Batista Passeri's collection of "antique" oil lamps. The larger part of the collection however later turned out to consist of fakes.
- Occas. sl. foxed; 1 vol. a few lvs. sl. wormholed. Bindings sl. worn at extremities; 2 vols. upper joint splitting; 1 vol. backstrip loosening. A good/ fine set.
= Schweiger II, p.796.
- Occas. sl. foxed; vol.1 and 3 owner's annots. on final blank. Vol.1 and 2 upper joint splitting/ dam.; all vols. spine and boardedges sl. worn/ rubbed.
= Schweiger p.793. All vols. w. the bookplate of J.G. van Marle on first free endpaper.
- Erratic pagination, but complete; final 20 leaves sl. waterstained in (mainly blank) upper and outer margins. = Geerebaert p.67, 3 note.
- Lacks ties. Very fine copy.
= With the letterpress prize, filled out in manuscript to Henricus Wilhelmus Brantsen, dated "13° Sept 1784" on first blank. For the binding see Spoelder 2; cf. Brunet IV, p.793 and Graesse V, p.398.
- Upper hinge breaking; sl. yellowed almost throughout; partly trifle wormholed in lower margin. Backstrip loosening; top of spine restored; sl. worn along edges.
= With portraits of Greek philosophers and poets, i.a. Thales, Solon, Socrates, Xenophon, Euclides, Plato, Aristoteles, Zeno, Pythagoras, Empedocles, Epicurus, Homerus, Aeschylus and Sappho.
- Bookplate ("Richard T. Pennefather") on upper pastedown; upper hinge weak (first free endpaper loosening). Top of spine dam.; 1 corner showing.
= Schweiger p.965: "Saubrer Abdr. des Gronovsch. Textes; mit guten Auszügen aus den Anmerkgg. früherer Erklärer, auch aus Gronov.'s diatribe. Ziemlich seltene Ausg."
- One plate loose, otherwise fine.
= With printed schoolprize w. manuscript entry to "Sebaldo Fulconi Rau", dated 1776. Dibdin II, p.443; Ebert 21938; Schweiger p.980: "Sein Erläuterungen bes. über d. Sprache sind höchst schätzbar".
- Htitle strengthened in inner margin; fore-edge partly sl. inkstained. Good copy.
= Also includes P. SYRUS' Sententiae (an alphabetical collection of moral maxims, 11p.). Schweiger p.1068.
- Occas. trifle foxed. Covers sl. chafed/ worn. Good set. = Cohen/ De Ricci 984; Schweiger p.1081.
- Lvs. yellowed, occas. sl. browned; margins (sl.) duststained. = Schweiger p.1068.
AND 1 other: POMPONIUS MELA, De Situ Orbis (Leyden, 1782, contemp. vellum schoolprize binding of Dordrecht).
- All vols. (sl.) foxed; vol.2 (sl.) dampstained in upper inner blank margin.
= Attractively bound set.
- Lacks first free endpaper; occas. sl. fingersoiled/ sl. stained. Covers (sl.) worn.
= The first Dutch ed. of the account of Cook's second voyage. Beddie 1231; Chavanne 5724; Cox I, p.59/60; Sabin 16275. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE CVII.
- Without the Chart of the Straights of Magellan; a few maps not bound according to binder's index (i.a. the general chart of the South Sea bound at the end of vol. 2); all vols. owner's stamp on title-p. Binding sl. rubbed along extremities; vol. 2 covers (water)stained.
= Published in the same year as the first edition. Cox I, p.19; Hill 782; Sabin 30934; Beddie 648; Henze II, p.713; Kroepelien 535; Smith p.46f. Contains the official account of Cook's first voyage commanding the Endeavour, edited from his journals by Hawkesworth and containing in the preceding sections the official accounts of the voyages of Byron, Wallis and Carteret. Hawkesworth's compendium contains the cream of English exploring voyages of the mid-18th century. "Hawkesworth was expected to add polish to the rough narratives of sea men, and to present the accounts in a style befitting the status of the voyages as official government expeditions, intended to embellish England's prestige as a maritime power." (Hill). SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE CVII.
- From the library of H. Boekenoogen (bookplate on upper pastedown). Frontisp. and double-p. title doubled and both splitting at lower end of central fold; occas. sl. (dust)stained. Rebacked w. modern giltlettered calf backstrip.
= Dünnhaupt 53.2; Bertsche 55a; Goedeke II, p.240,27; Heyse 897; Jantz I,309; Warthin p.76. Not in Oppermann, Reichelt, etc. The second edition (first 1710). SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE CVIII.
- Fine copy.
= Reichelt 88; cat. Memento Mori, Dansen met de dood 39. Not in Oppermann etc. The rare first Dutch edition of the Besonders meublirt und gezierte Todten-Capelle, oder Allgemeiner Todten-Spiegel.