2554 - 3406 OLD and RARE BOOKS
- Occas. sl. foxed/ browned. = Bierens de Haan 401.
- A few index lvs. foxed; map belonging to first work, bound after title of second work.
- Occas. sl. foxed; one plate w. sm. tear on fold, sl. affecting the image. Binding sl. rubbed.
- Bookplate on first free endpaper; sl. foxed. Covers sl. rubbed along extremities; top of spine chipped.
- Title page foxed; lacks the large plate "Plan ofte ontwerp van een nieuwe aarden-dyck". Binding rubbed/ sl. worn.
= Rare. Bierens de Haan 2622.
- New endpapers, some yellowed spots. Spine-ends trifle worn. = F.M. 6219.
- Lacks second title-p.; one quire misbound but complete; (sl.) foxed/ browned; stamp on upper pastedown, first free endpaper and second blank. Some sm. (water)stains on covers.
= Waller 548.
- Sl. foxed throughout; bookplate and cat. clipping on upper pastedown. Backstrip strengthened w. papertape.
= Contains i.a. the first edition of Brentano's "Aus der Chronika eines fahrenden Schülers" and contributions by J. and W. Grimm and A. von Chamisso. Goedeke VII, 848, 14, 5.
- Contemp. owner's entry on pastedown; last 4 lvs. wormholed in outer lower corner. Lower part spine restored; extremities bumped/ sl. chafed.
- Fine copy.
- Sl. browned; uncut; vague library stamp in blank margin of frontisp.; 1 plate soiled. Frontcover heavily dam. at boardedge; backcover rubbed.
= Van Eeghen/ Van der Kellen 341.
- Occas. sl foxed; waterstained in upper blank margin. Covers sl. rubbed; corners showing; spine-ends sl. dam.
- Most fold. leaves w. closed tear in inner margin, partly into the "maps"; endpapers renewed w. late 19th cent. marbled paper.
= Ingeniously construed travel booklet, with attractive use of colours. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE CXXXIII.
- First vol. vague library stamp on title-p.; trifle (finger)soiled; one leaf w. sm. tear. Rubbed along extremities; spine-ends and corners worn.
- Vol. I and VI lack title-p.; lacks 5 portraits; all vols. sl. foxed/ (water)stained; annots. on pastedows and/ or first free endpaper. Vellum sl. soiled.
= Dutch translation of the first French edition by the same publisher, 1717.
- All vols. bookplate on upper pastedown and owner's entry on htitle; occas. trifle foxed. Covers w. some rubbed spots; 3rd vol. sm. (water)stains on frontcover; two vols. sunned.
= Cf. Kress B916; Goldsmiths 13050; INED 3358; Blanqui 66 (first ed. 1784): "C'est le premier ouvrage sincère qui nous ait révélé la science des finances, et de plus un acte de courage et de bon citoyen au moment où il parut"; New Palgrave III, 620: "(...) This work, like those which Necker wrote previously, is marked by an absence of general principle; it was declamatory and exaggerated in style, but valuable to those who would study how the finances of France were managed in the last days of the old régime".
- Bookplate on upper pastedown; two lvs. w. tear of ±3 cm. in lower (outer) margin, not affecting text. Covers w. dam. spots.
= Monglond II, p.879.
- Lacks 2 charts (Algiers and Tunis); contents otherwise fine. Binding rubbed/ sl. worn.
= SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE CXXXIV.
- Occas. sl. foxed; final 4 lvs. corners sl. dam./ mouldy. Covers sl. rubbed; corners starting to show; paper ticket on spine.