2554 - 3406 OLD and RARE BOOKS
- Closed tear in large fold. map.
= A very fine LARGE PAPER COPY printed on heavy paper and bound in an attractive contemp. binding by an unidentified binder (but for border around sides compare Storm van Leeuwen II, p.380, Broes bindery tool XIII). Nijhoff/ Van Hattum 194; cat. NHSM p.319.
- Letterpiece chipped. A fine copy. = Nijhoff/ Van Hattum 194; cat. NHSM p.319.
- Contemp. annot. on htitle; otherwise a fine copy. = Nijhoff/ Van Hattum 194; cat. NHSM p.319.
- Occas. old annotations/ underlinings in pen; occas. sl waterst./ trifle mouldy in lower margin and lower outer corner rounded at the beginning and end; final few quires frayed and margins of final leaf strengthened w. paper tape; woodcut coat of arms of Middelburg (part 1, p.127) pasted over with a larger contemp. woodcut coat of arms.
= De Buck 1944; Nijhoff/ Van Hattum 264. With fold. leaf with contemp. annotations in brown ink, tipped onto the outer blank margin of p.199.
- Both vols. paper ticket tipped onto first free endpaper; occas. sl. foxed. Spines sl. soiled.
= Nijhoff/ Van Hattum 100 and 102.
- Occas. sl. foxed. Top of spine trifle wormholed.
= With added on final blank in contemp. manuscript several corrections of misprints in the text. Haitsma Mulier/ Van der Lem 408a and 408b.
- Upper hinge weak; occas. sl. foxed/ browned, mostly on first few lvs. Covers sl. rubbed along extremities; sm. portion of letterpiece worn away.
= Haitsma Mulier/ Van der Lem 455c.
- Fold. maps/ plans/ views occas. sl. frayed and duststained in outer blank margins; endpapers w. offsetting from turn-ins. Bindings sl. rubbed; remnants of sm. ticket at top of spine.
- Two leaves w. 4 plates in total yellowed. Otherwise a fine and clean copy.
= Large paper copy. The views numbered 1-104 (some double-p. plates are counted as 4 views). One of the finest series of views depicting the Netherlands in the 18th century.
- Vol. I trifle browned, mostly in blank margins; vol. II sl. foxed. Vol. I vellum sl. soiled; lower corner frontcover dam.; vol. II backstrip sl. soiled.
- Library stamp on title-p. and blanks; sl. (vaguely) waterstained in outer and lower blanks, occas. touching text. Binding rubbed; paper over covers partly torn off.
= Rare. Sara Maria van Zon, the daughter of the canon of Oud-Munster (Utrecht), knew multiple languages: her posthumously published collected works, compiled by her sister Anna Lucretia, contain poems translated from German, French, Hebrew and Latin. Although a well-praised poet during her lifetime, the works of Sara Maria remained barely read after her death. (Huygens Insituut)
- Lacks 1 plate; waterst. at the beginning and end; owner's stamps on title-p. and first free endpaper. Covers rubbed.
= Incl. the rare 3rd part (all published). Contains nice plates of funerary monuments.