- Waterstained and sl. wormholed in upper margin throughout.

= Haitsma Mulier/ Van der Lem 362c.

- Fine copy.

= Landwehr, Romeyn de Hooghe as book illustrator 92. Without the usually bound with Boerekermis by the same (1708).

- Each vol. bookplates on upper pastedown/ first blank. Corners strengthened w. sellotape. Otherwise a good set.

= The first volume is partly devoted to the Jewish faith and customs and partly to the Japanese. In other vols. the religion of the Chinese, Indians, Persians and Catholicism, Islam and the Byzantine church are dealt with in full detail. Volume 6 is entirely devoted to the rites of different churches in Amsterdam.

- Without the first vol. (dealing with the Jewish and the Japanese religion); occas. sl. foxed.

= Catholicism, Islam and the Byzantine church are dealt with in full detail. Vol. 6 is entirely devoted to the rites of different churches in Amsterdam. Also concerning the religion of the Chinese, Indians and Persians.

- Lacks the portrait; waterst. in lower margin almost throughout; partly sl. mouldy. Vellum lacks ties.

= Bibl. Belg. H120; Van Someren 2677a.

- Foxed (incl. fold. plates)/ occas. browned. Lower joint of vol.1 splitting.

= Landwehr, R. de Hooghe as book ill. 19; Scheepers I, 112.

- Recurring (vague) waterst. in blank margin. Vellum sl. soiled and loosening at lower turn-in of frontcover; sm. dam spot.

= Landwehr, R. de Hooghe as book ill. 19; Scheepers I, 112.

- Seventeenth cent. owner's entry in upper margin of title-p. (partly crossed out); identical owner's stamps on verso of title.and on verso of final leaf ("VF" and an unidentified libr. stamp); a few scattered annots. in pen and ink in margin (esp. in the first 40 lvs); occas. foxed/ fingersoiled in margins; first and final few leaves some browned spots; without free endpapers. Binding restored w. use of the orig. blindstamped calf over covers.

= Notable Medical Books p.53: "His Canon is one of the most famous medical texts ever written, a complete exposition of Galenism. Neuburger says: "It stands for the epitome of all precedent development, the final codification of all Graeco-Arabic medicine". It dominated the medical schools of Europe and Asia for five centuries. (...)". Very rare. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXXXII.

- Title-p. restored around edges/ lacks sm. part of upper margin (just affecting the image) w. ink stains and 2 sm. holes; a few lvs. w. sm. restoration in lower blank margin.

= Rare. This ed. not in Adams and Van der Haeghen.

- Lacks title-p.; waterst. in upper edge almost throughout; some scattered old annots. Upper joint split; binding sl. worn along edges.

= Adams R699; BM Italian, p.564; not in Rossetti. Contains texts by i.a. Francesco Albertini, Pomponius Laetus and Flavius Blondus. Very rare.

- Lacks quires B, C and lvs. D1 and D4; leaf L6 misbound; title and first 3 textp. lack portion in centre (professionally restored and missing text and parts of woodcuts supplied in manuscript pen and ink); blank margins of first 7 p. strengthened/ remargined.

= Very rare work by Antwerp publisher Jan van Doesborch, only 5 copies found in libraries/ institutions (most also incomplete). Only 1 copy in JAP 1990-2024. Richly illustrated in the style of a Biblia pauperum, starting from the Creation until the Day of Judgment, with a strong emphasis on the lives of Jesus Christ and Mary. Nijhoff/ Kronenburg 1628. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXXXIII.

- Partly sl. yellowed; occas. sl. soiled/ (damp)stained (mostly in blank margin); 3 lvs. repaired w. paper; 1 quire loosening. Extremities sl. worn; 1 corner cracked; backstrip trifle wormholed. Otherwise a good copy.

= Illustrated ed. of Ovid's Heroides with (printed around the text) commentaries of prominent humanists of the time, i.a. A. Volsco, A.G. Parrasio, J. Badius, D. Calderini. Very rare edition, only 3 copies in USTC and no copy traced on the market. EDIT16 37717 (online); not in the usual reference works. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXXXIV.

- Occas. sl. stained in blank margins (1x sm. inkstain in one image); early 20th cent. marbled endpapers; rebacked w. modern morocco. Otherwise a very fine copy, with the woodcuts in sharp and fresh impressions.

= Provenance: Tobias Gutberleth (1609-1662, head of the Latin school at Leeuwarden) (owner's entry on title-p.), "G. van Olden jr. (not traced) and Adams V474; Mortimer 538 (incomplete and expurgated copy); Renouard, Badius Ascensius, vol.3, p.377ff, no.17. Contains numerous remarkebly beautiful anonymous woodcuts, printed from the same (now sl. worn, but in our copy still very good) blocks that were used for the first Lyons Badius edition of 1517. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXXXIV.

- Fingeroiled/ stained and sl. frayed; some dam. spots in margins; one leaf w. extensive old annots.

= Lvs. XLVI, XLVII, CIII, CXXVIII, CXLV, CCLVI and CCLVIII of the Latin edition. The woodcuts depicting i.a. emperors and popes, the stoning of Saint Stephen, the Judgement of Solomon and a town view "Anglie Provincia".

- Occas. sl. foxed/ yellowed (incl. part of the plates); one plate w. paper flaw in lower margin. Sm. tear in spine and sm. red stain (4x0,6 cm.) in top margin of frontcover. Good/ fine copy.

= Landwehr VOC 559; Tiele 458; Cat. NHSM, p.241; Rouffaer/ Muller p.341; Klaversma/ Hannema 604; Van Eeghen/ Van der Kellen 227. "Daniel Havart travelled to the Indies for the Zeeland chamber of the VOC in 1672. He stayed there from 1672 to 1685 on the Coromandel coast. His book is a standard work on the Coromandel coast and the VOC factories there." (Landwehr). Contains much information on the period that the Dutch were the most powerful European traders on the East coast of India. Rare.

- Partly foxed and occas. browned; p.88-92 and plate 6 w. heavy offsetting from previously inserted leaf; a few leaves sl. dampstained in lower margin; plate 2 cut trifle short in outer margin (just touching the image); portrait trifle frayed in lower margin and reattached w. sm. restoration in lower blank inner margin.

= Cox II, p.301 (note); Howgego F60; Henze II, p.261f: "Sein 1779 [in Dublin] erschienenes Reisewerk brachte vielerlei Neues über den O Insulindes, scheint aber zu seiner Zeit wenig Beachtung gefunden zu haben (...)." Hill 623: "In 1774, when the council, in accordance with their instructions and with a view to developing new sources of trade, desired to send an exploring party in the direction of New Guinea, Forrest offered his services. He sailed in the Tartar, a native boat (...). The voyage was one of examination and enquiry rather than of exploration, and the additions made to geographical knowledge were corrections of detail rather than startling discoveries, but the tact with which he conducted his intercourse with the natives, and the amount of work done in a small boat, deservedly won him credit as a navigator". "Contient un vocabulaire de la langue Magindano et de celle des Papous" (Chadenat).

= Catalogue of the statues in Giardino di Boboli, Palazzo Pitti, Uffizi, Palazzo Vecchio etc. Rare.

- Bookplate and owner's stamps of A. de Kluis on prelim. lvs. Otherwise fine.

- Pastedowns detached. Backstrip darkened.

= Willems 1353 ("impression fort soignée"); Rahir 1404; Copinger 1083; Willaert 3232. "Rédigées par la mère Agnes Arnould, la mère Euphémie Pascal et la soeur Gertrude. l'Édition (...) est jolie et recherchée." (Berghman).

- First leaf loose(ning). = Rare anti-protestant (Jesuit) publication. De Backer/ Sommervogel IV, p.183.