- Scattered taxman's stamps in lower outer blank corner, otherwise contents fine. Paper over covers dam.

= Auction catalogue of the famous Meerman collection. With results in pen and ink in margins. Not in Blogie.

- Bookseller's stamp on upper pastedown; lacks 1 etching, results in contemp. pen and ink in blank margins. Binding worn; spine sl. dam.

= Jan Danser Nijman (1735-1797) was a well-known collector of and dealer in (mainly) Dutch, French, Flemish and Italian old master paintings, prints and other antiquities.

- Foxed/ yellowed (partly browned) almost throughout; some wormholing in upper hinge of the first 2 vols. Vol.1 and 2 foot spine dam.; covers occas. worn.

= A few quires in the second vol. w. results in pen and ink. The catalogues for the entire library of the German doctor Johann Zacharias Platner (1694-1747). Not in Blogie.

- Bookseller's stamp on verso frontwr.; lvs. sl. wrinkled; trifle foxed and yellowed; results in contemp. pen and ink in blank margins. Wr. dam.

= Very rare catalogue on the famous sale of the collection of the lawyer and Lyon tax collector Paul Louis Randon de Boisset (1709-1776), including paintings, drawings, vases, marble columns, porcelain and lacquer.

- Both title-p. age-toned and soiled.

= Partly w. results in old pen and ink in margins. For a thorough overview of the important collections of C. Ploos van Amstel on the basis of the auction catalogues of his estate, see at large T. Laurentius, J.W. Niemeijer and G. Ploos van Amstel, Cornelis Ploos van Amstel 1726-1798, kunstverzamelaar en prentuitgever (Assen, 1980, p.3-103, Ploos' verzamelingen).

- With scattered contemp. annots.; occas. trifle soiled; bookseller's stamp on first free endpaper. Corners showing; rubbed along extremities.

= Sale catalogue of the important Belgian collection by Pierre Wouters, a wealthy clergyman and royal treasurer, containing works by i.a. Breughel, Van Dyck, Dürer, Fragonard, Hollar, Mantegna, Rembrandt, Teniers, Titian and Watteau. The catalogue describes 2237 lots of prints, 1640 lots of drawings and concludes with 318 lots of books.

- Corners sl. rubbed. Otherwise fine.

= First French edition, copy with attractively coloured plates. Cox II, 315. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXIX.

- Fold. plates doubled; large fold. bird's eye view loose. Binding worn/ dam. (mainly along extremities).

= Adams A2341; Belgica Typographica 217 and 7827; Bibl. Belgica A91 (identifying the printer as J. Graphaeus). Rare. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXIX.

- Wormholed at the beginning; 17th cent. owner's entry on title-p.; waterst. in inner margin at the end; lower hinge weak. Binding rebacked and corners restored; lacks catches; covers rubbed.

= Adams B340.

- Slightly worn.

= Rare protest against the innovations instigated by Joseph II in the Southern Netherlands.

- (Sl.) foxed; occas. sm. inkstains. Spine-ends chipped; corners worn/ rubbed.

= Knuttel 21756; Cioranescu 45223; Martin/ Walter III, 24427. The (extensive) accomp. notes were written by P.-H. Marron.

- Title loose(ning). Spine splitting.

= Knuttel 20443. Rare satirical "testament" targeting Pierre Gosse jr. (1718-1794), publisher of the pro-orangist 's Gravenhaagsche Courant.

- Bookplate on verso frontwr. Later owner's entry on frontwr.; wrappers duststained.

= Early edition of the first French edition of 1785 on which Mozart based his opera Le Nozze di Figaro, preceding the ed. Paris, 1785. PMM 230 (in the bibliographical note): "This French edition was preceded by at least one unauthorized edition with an Amsterdam imprint."

= The final 9 pages contain the "Clef de l'Asiatique tolérant". Barbier I, p.305. Rare roman à clef.

- Owner's entry in ballpoint on first blank. Joints and backstrip rubbed/ worn; leather over boards dam. at edges (partly loosening).

- Lacks endpapers; a few lvs. loose; title-leaf and last textleaf w. trimmed margins and partly laid down on modern paper.

- One vol. only; a few lvs. loose; lacks 8 plates/ ills.; partly dampstained (mainly) in blank margins. Binding sl. dam.

= Brunet V, 121; Bibliotheca Belgica V, p.41-42. Rare publication with iconic early maps, plans and views of Flanders.

- With label ("Jan Meyer (...) 1767") partly laid down over impressum on title-p.; contemp. owner's entry on first free endpaper. Spine and boardedges worn/ sl. dam.

- Lacks 1 plate in vol. 2. Otherwise fine.

= Rare publication in which Bernard views hell not as merely a place of punishment, but as a fascinating place with its own benefits, laws and inhabitants. The work explores the psychological and religious fear and allure of hell.

- Binding w. some scratched spots and frontcover w. sm. discoloured part at the top. A fine copy.

= One of 1000 copies (numb. "620"), with Bewick's signed thumbmark receipt bound before title-page and with the seaweed printed over the woodcut on the receipt. Roscoe 46a.