2896 - 3588 OLD and RARE BOOKS
- Some sl. yellowing/ foxing/ dustsoiling; both vols. w. old annots. in pen and ink on endpapers. Bindings badly rubbed/ worn; corners showing; spine-ends sl. dam.; vol. 1 lacks one letterpiece, frontcover loose and lower joint split.
= Early edition (first ed. 1748, by the same publisher). Tchemerzine VIII, p.459f.
- One vol. lacks first blank; a few lvs. sl. duststained. Corners and spine-end(s) sl. worn; covers sl. rubbed; vol. 3 upper joint partly split. Otherwise a good set.
= The second collective edition, revised, corrected and greatly enlarged by the author. Copies are known with and without (2) maps. Our copy without maps. Cioranescu 46064; Tchemerzine VIII, 463,a (also without maps). Florilège du livre Français imprimé au Pays-Bas no. XII: "Après la mort de Montesquieu Richer avec le concours du fils de l'auteur publia une édition des ouvrages, qui, dans une belle typographie, parût à Amsterdam en 1758".
- Frontisp. partly waterstained. Paper over covers sl. worn.
= Brunet III, p.1858; Cioranescu 46065; Tchemerzine IV, p.933.
- Occas. (sl.) foxed; vol. 1 sl. mouldy in upper margin at the end of the 2nd part (sl. affecting a few plates); a few pages waterst. in blank margins. Upper free endpaper vol. 2 cut short. Bindings worn along extremities; chintz over covers partly dam.; vol. 6 joints/ hinges split but holding well.
= Rubens p.1103-1215, 1244-1273; Sabin 62600 (praising the engravings). One of the main sources documenting the history of religion, with extensive descriptions of the Jewish and Roman Catholic faith (incl. the activities of the inquisition), Greek-Orthodox and Protestant churches, Quakers, Anabaptism, Freemasonry, Islam, Buddhism, Chinese and Persian religions, American and African creeds etc. The first vol. i.a. dealing with the rites and customs of the Dutch Jewry in the 17th and 18th century, with fine plates.
- Partly waterstained; vol. 1 bookplate on upper pastedown.
- With contemp. owner's entry on upper pastedown by "Alexandri Swevers", dated 1642; contemp. annots. and underlining throughout; sl. yellowed; hinges weak; 20th cent. catalogue clipping mounted on first free endpaper and w. owner's stamp of F. Donnet. Vellum sl. darkened; lacks ties.
= Account of the Eighty Years' War from the perspective of a catholic Italian priest. Very rare.
- One index-leaf w. tear. Joints starting at spine-ends. A fine copy.
= Haitsma Mulier/ Van der Lem 35e; Cf. Bibl. Belgica B113. Important source for the Eighty-Year's war, listing numerous details both in the text as well as in the illustrations. Rare, complete copy. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XCVII.
- Lacks pastedowns; waterstained throughout; bookplate on upper pastedown.
= Willems 78; Rahir 64; Haitsma Mulier/ Van der Lem 36a. The best old source on the history of the Twaalfjarig Bestand written by "een man van losse zeden, overgegeven aan het onmatig gebruik van den wijn en aan de ontucht (...) In alle andere opzigten was hij een uitstekend man." (De Wind p.514).
- Verso title (cancelled) libr. stamp; title trifle foxed; upper hinge split.
= Haitsma Mulier/ Van der Lem 63e; Valkema Blouw 684; not in Adams. Including a genealogy of prominent families in Friesland and Holland, a genealogy of the heroes of Leyden and Wassenaar, a history of the Batavians and an account of the Roman emperor Caligula's alleged visit to Holland.
- Lacks 1 portrait; third vol. portrait laid down on adjacent leaf; occas. sl. yellowed. Corners bumped; ties lacking; vol. 1 upper joint splitting.
= Haitsma Mulier/ Van der Lem 75c; De Wind p. 240-243; Volmuller p.90; De Buck 2294 (ed. 1679-1684). The rare first edition of the much enlarged, complete edition (a 'preliminary' edition was published in 1595 (3 parts) and 1601 (3 parts)).
- Occas. sl. foxed/ yellowed (vol. 4 sl. worse). Otherwise a good/ fine complete set.
= Haitsma Mulier/ Van der Lem 86c.
- Contents sl. yellowed.
= Bodel Nijenhuis 95; Haitsma Mulier/ Van der Lem 86c. ("Het gedeelte van Brouërius loopt tot deel 2, p.145, daarna nam Le Long het werk over (zie: 309c.)").
- Only text vols. Lacks all plates by A. Rademaker. All vols. w. library ticket on upper pastedown ("Bibl. F.F.Min. Capuccinorum") and scattered library stamps.
- Fine copy. = De Buck 1654. First edition of this anonymous chronicle.
- Contents foxed. Binding sl. rubbed; frontcover 2nd vol. dam. spot.
= First and only edition of this very charming series, i.a. by Madou and Jombard, with views of the Benelux countries. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XCIX.
- Vol. 2 (sl.) browned/ yellowed almost throughout. = Haitsma Mulier/ Van der Lem 114a.
- Endpapers and title sl. browned in margins. Binding sl. worn; top of spine chipped. = Pohler I, p.496.
- First ±50 lvs. w. a few sm. wormholes. Binding (sl.) worn along extremities; backcover sl. chafed. Good copy.
= Haitsma Mulier/ Van der Lem 187a. "De invloed, dien de "Divisie-kroniek" geoefend heeft, is moeilijk te overschatten. Zij vatte a.h.w. nog eenmaal al het oude weten omtrent het vaderlandsch verleden samen (...) en bleef (...) dé vraagbaak voor het leekenpubliek, tot Wagenaar haar sedert 1749 zou verdringen" (Romein).
- Pastedowns loosening; bookplate of W.C. Baert de Waarde on first free endpaper; lvs. occas. sl. creased. Binding trifle stained; upper joint starting; lacks one tie. Otherwise a (very) fine copy.
= Ter Meulen/ Diermanse 749; Van Eeghen/ Van der Kellen 38; Klaversma/ Hannema 585/ 586. The only Dutch edition (first Latin ed. 1657).
- Yellowed/ sl. browned; occas. sm. tears in margins plates; "Bibliotheca Hafflighemensis anno 1768" on title both vols.; scattered library stamps. Binding worn along extremities.
= De Buck 7572; Haitsma Mulier/ Van der Lem 2226. Contains: I. Historia, seu notitia episcopatus Ultrejectensis. II. Historia, seu notitia episcopatus Harlemensis. III. Daventriensis. IV. Leovardiensis. V. Groningensis. VI. Middelburgensis.