2896 - 3588 OLD and RARE BOOKS
- New endpapers; library stamps on title-p. and 1 textleaf. Fine copy.
= Landwehr 883; Praz 428; Schuytvlot 52; Unger 78.
- Modern annots. in pen on first free endpaper and title-p.; sl. waterst. in lower outer corner; occas. sl. foxed/ browned. Vellum sl. stained.
= First revised ed. of Wicquefort's Mémoires touchant les ambassadeurs (publ. Cologne, 1676).
- First lvs. dam. in lower corner; partly fingersoiled and stained; a few lvs. w. a child's pencil scribbling. Rebacked w. leather.
- One quire sl. browned (one leaf w. paper flaw in lower blank margin, just touching the text). = Rare.
- Contents partly sl. dampstained in outer margin; dogeared; bookplate on htitle; bookplate on first free endpaper; a few scattered marks in margin in pen and ink. Wrappers worn and frontwr. waterstained in outer margin.
= Buijnsters 49.
- Vol. III partly with (small) waterstain mostly solely in blank margin. A fine, wellbound set.
= Buijnsters 115. First edition.
- Occas. sl. foxed. Bindings sl. worn.
= The handcol. plate is a 19th-cent. facsimile of the famous miniature in the 9th-cent. Egmond Gospels, showing Count Dirk II and his wife Hildegard of Flanders presenting the codex to the Egmond Abbey (KB, KW 76 F 1, fol. 214v).
Idem. Historische en letterkundige avondstonden, ter ophelderinge van eenige zeden der Nederlanderen; byzonderlyk in derzelver daaglyksch en huislyk leeven; en van den stand der Nederduitsche dichtkunde (...). Amst., J. Allart, 1800, 2 parts in 1 vol., VII,(1),368; II,200p., 4 (fold.) engr. plates, contemp. gilt hcalf w. mor. letterpiece.
- Upper joint starting; trifle worn.
- Wrappers worn and sl. soiled.
BOUND AFTER: Idem. Kronyk-Register van de voornaamste kerkelyke en wereldlyke geschiedenissen, van 't begin der Wereld tot den Jaare 1766. Ibid., idem, n.d., 103p.
- Yellowed; title-p. loose(ning) and waterstained.
- Upper hinge closed. Vellum duststained. Good/ fine copy.
= On the author and his unfinished chronicle see Meertens p.444-445; Bodel Nijenhuis 1749.
- Hinges broken; bookblock almost loose. Otherwise a fine copy.
= From the library of M. Buisman with his owner's entry on first free endpaper. Nijhoff/ Van Hattum 100 and 102.
- Bookplate on upper pastedown; lower pastedown loosening; tiny hole in title. Vellum sl. worn/ sl/ warped.
= NNBW IX, p1309f. Rare. Only one copy in STCN.
- Lacks free endpapers and final blank (L6); title-p. vaguely stained; photocopy of the title-p. of the copy of UB Leiden, with a variant ornament bound after title-p. The vellum binding originally coloured orange, now colour partly worn off.
= Bookplate of C. Kruykamp on upper pastedown; contemp. owner's entry on final page (unidentified).
- Occas. sl. foxed. Spine-ends and corners sl. rubbed (1x sl. worn). Good/ fine set.
= Tiele 1240; Sabin 106334, note. Dutch translation of Die Erde und ihre Bewohner, published in Leipsic from 1810 onwards. Comprises (htitles): Guinea; Westindie; Het Westelijke gedeelte van den Noord-Pool, of Ysland, Groenland, Canada enz.; Noord-Amerika; Florida en Mexico, en de Noordelijkste streken van Zuid-Amerika; Brasilien, Chili en Patagonien; Aziätisch Rusland; Vervolg van Aziätisch Rusland en Chineesch Tartaryen; China en Korea; Japan en de eilanden onder deszelfs oppergezag; Tunkin, Cochinchina, Camboge, Laos en Lac-Tho; Thibet, Bootan, rijk der Birmannen, Cassay, Garros en Assam; Siam, Pontiamas, Malakka, Mergui-Archipel, Andaman- en Nicobar-Eilanden; Indostan (...) (3 vols.); De Lakediven en Maldiven en de Indische Archipel (2 vols.).