2501 - 3523 OLD and RARE BOOKS
- Title-p. mounted on frontcover, sl. soiled and sl. dam. in lower outer corner; final 2 maps trifle dampstained in blank margins (1x touching the text).
= Gouda Quint p.440f.
- Contents occas. sl. foxed/ soiled. Extremities sl. worn; 2 vols. joints splitting.
= The 3rd Dutch edition. Landwehr F107; Waller 589; Bodemann II, 158.
- Fine copy. = Dekkers p.2; Haitsma Mulier/ Van der Lem 9b.
- Several plates loose(ning). Binding rubbed.
= Nice, detailed work, focusing on all possible aspects of the coat of arms: shield, coronet, mantling, etc.
- Contents first vol. occas. sl. browned; both vols. bookplate on upper pastedown.
= Haitsma Mulier/ Van der Lem 315. First Dutch translation.
- Binding trifle rubbed. A good/ fine copy. = Brunet III, p.1628; Graesse IV, p.488.
- Owner's stamp and sm. bookplate on verso of first free endpaper; owner's stamp on verso of final free endpaper. Backstrip dam.
- Sl. yellowed/ browned; a few annots. Upper joint splitting. Good copy.
- Trifle waterstained in outer blank margin. Vellum sl. soiled. = Rare.
BOUND WITH: David, J. Schild-wacht tot seker waerschouwinghe Teghen de valsche Waersegghers/ Tooveraers/ ende derghelijcke ongoddelijckheyt. 's Hertogenbosch, J.J. Scheffer, 1619, (6),56,(1)p., woodcut title-vignette. - AND BOUND WITH 6 other small publications.
- Owner's stamp on first free endpaper; title-p. cut trifle short. Upper outer corner of backcover sl. stained. Otherwise fine.
- Library stamp and bookplate on verso frontwr.; a few quires loose.
= Batavia Typographia 4692; Tiele 435; Knuttel 1078: "Belangrijke verzameling van stukken over den Westphaalschen krijg. (...) De titel is versierd met eene afbeelding der Spaansche wreedheid in een spiegel vertoond, waarnaar mannen uit allerlei natien met afschrik wijzen (...)." For the title-vignette see: Schmidt, Innocence Abroad: The Dutch Imagination and the New World, 1570-1670, p.106f. From the library of Bob Luza w. his bookplate on verso frontwrapper.
- Fine copy.
- Covers, bookblock and title-p. loose; most plates w. sl. offsetting on opposite textp.; frontisp. plate bound after Préface du traducteur; 4 textlvs. erroneously bound; owner's entry and bookplate on upper pastedown.
= First French edition of this important collection of early works on glassmaking. Poggendorff I, p.1130 and II, p.269; Duveen p.427; Ferguson, Bibl. Chemica II, p.135; Partington II, p.364; Ferguson, Books of Secrets no.672 and vol. III, p.40f and VI, p.4f: "This is a bulky quarto, sumptuously printed, with handsome engravings of furnaces and apparatus, and it is undoubtedly the most complete of all the editions which I have seen. It contains not only the treatise of Neri, with the prefaces and notes of Merrett and of Kunckel (...), but also some treatises and extracts from other works bearing upon the manufacture of glass, enamel and porcelain, and, besides, the tracts on the controversy about the part gold takes in making ruby glass, written by Orschal, Balduin and Kunckel. It forms, therefore, a kind of cyclopaedia of the older writings on glass-making."
- Occas. fingersoiled/ stained (incl. 1 plate); owner's entry on first blank; some scattered scribblings in pencil. Covers sl. soiled/ stained; gilding partly worn; lacks clasps and catches.
- All vols. w. several (library) stamps and old owner's entry on title-p.; trifle yellowed/ foxed. Bindings sl. chafed; paper ticket on frontcovers.
= Jean Baptiste Gonet was among the most prominent advocates of Thomism in the 17th century.
- Lacks the worldmap; occas. waterstained (mainly in margins); first vol. engr. title reattached. Both vols. vellum sl. soiled.
- Wrappers faded; spine-ends chipped. Otherwise fine. = First published in 1699.
- Sl. waterstained throughout; title and frontisp. reattached.
= Pagination of the first edition but address on title suggests 2nd edition. Tiele 401 (according to collation); Landwehr, VOC 280; Sabin 28176; Borba I, 373. Account of 16 voyages by a ship's surgeon from Hoorn, made over half a century (1639-1687), including 5 voyages to the East Indies, one to Brazil and a whaling-expedition to Greenland. The others to the Mediterranean, the North Sea and Scandinavia, mostly in the service of the navy, a.o. under De Ruyter during the 2nd Anglo-Dutch naval war. The book is written in a straightforward style and full of humour; it gives many details on the daily life on board the East India men, particulars on De Ruyter's expeditions not found in the official biographies, and many trustworthy accounts of Asian countries, from Iran to China, including an extensive chapter on the trade with the latter. De Graaff also worked as cartographer, mapping the Malabar coast, and also made a fairly precise altimetry of the Tafelberg. The second part, "Oost-Indische Spiegel", is a bitter account of the corruption among V.O.C. servants and the immoral life of Dutch men and women in Indonesia. This part also gives many particulars on the tour of inspection by Van Rheede van Drakesteyn on the Malabar and Coromandel coasts to suppress corruption. The work was republished in 1930 as vol. 33 of the "Linschoten-Vereeniging", ed. J.C.M. Warnsinck, while E. du Perron adapted the "Oost-Indische Spiegel" under the title "Een Indische Nurks". SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXXXI.
- Title-p. w. sl. later owner's entry ("Fr. Jacô Farenius Abbas Berneburgensis Anno 1694"); partly yellowed/ browned; wormholed, increasing towards the end. Binding fine.
= Rare.