2554 - 3406 OLD and RARE BOOKS
- Without the portrait, as in many copies acc. to Leendertz. = Willems 986; Rahir 977; Leendertz 123.
AND a stripped copy of H. DE GROOT, Nederlandtsche jaerboeken en historien (...) (Amst., 1681, engr. frontisp., contemp. calf, folio. Binding worn/ rubbed).
- Lacks all but one double-p. plates and 3 portraits (Hooft present). Rebacked.
= Leendertz 126; Haitsma Mulier/ Van der Lem 235 b and c.
- Bibl. annot. on second blank; some lvs. cut short without loss of text. Vellum sl. soiled.
= Ad. 1: Knuttel 8806a; Van de Klashorst 250: "(...) arguing that the stadholdership as the monarchical element is an essential part of the constitution of the Dutch Republic which did and will prosper under the Princes of Orange."
= Van de Klashorst etc. 243; Knuttel 8653b.
BOUND WITH: Hollands Op-komst, Oft bedenkingen, Op de schaadelijke Schriften, genaamt Graafelyke regeeringe, en interest van Holland. Ibid., idem, 1662, (16),126p. - AND WITH: Bedenkingen, Op het Boek interest van Holland (...). N.pl., n.publ., n.d. (±1665), (1 blank),109,(3)p.
- Final 3 lvs. sl. frayed along upper margin.
(Huybert, P. de). Verdediging van de oude Hollantsche regeringh, Onder een Stadthouder en Kapiteyn Generael (...). Amst., J. van Someren, 1672, (2),244p., sl. later blindst. vellum, sm. 8vo.
- Partly waterstained in upper and lower outer corner, occas. sl. affecting text.
D.P.E. Toetze, Op het laster-schrift, 't Onrecht genaamt stadhouderlyke regeeringe van Holland en West-Vriesland (...). Leyden, J. Princen, 1662, 126,(2)p., sl. later boards w. mor. letterpiece, sm. 8vo.
- Sl. browned; library stamps on title-p.; sl. cut short in lower blank margin, not affecting text; new endpapers. Binding sl. rubbed.
= Knuttel 8655c.
- Partly waterst. in margins. Upper joint splitting.
- Bookplate on upper pastedown; contemp. annots. on first free endpaper; occas. trifle foxed. Covers w. some sm. rubbed spots.
= Wildenberg 1112; cf. Schumpeter p.368; Knuttel, Verboden boeken 4. The second edition (first published 1669) of this revised and enlarged edition of the "Interest van Holland" (1662).
- Contemp. annot. on first free endpaper; occas. sl./ trifle foxed. Fine copy.
= Wildenberg 1051; Haitsma Mulier/ Van der Lem 126a (one of four variants with different collation and w. engr. title).
BOUND WITH: (Idem). Interest van Holland, ofte gronden van Hollands-Welvaren. Aangewezen door V.D.H. Amst., J.C. vander Gracht, 1662, (16),267,(5)p.
= Schumpeter p.368; Knuttel 8652; Wildenberg 1042; Van de Klashorst etc. 232: "The author of this famous treatise argues that the prosperity of Holland depends on religious tolerance, free trade and manufacture, lower taxes and duties, and in the field of foreign policy, the avoidance of war (especially at sea) and of territorial expansion. He urges the maintenance of the republican form of government and particularly warns against the appointment of a captain-general. Some chapters are attributed to John de Witt."
- Plans occas. sl. browned; sl. yellowed. Vellum sl. dustsoiled.
= Rare.
- Vellum sl. soiled. = Important source on Dutch history. Haitsma Mulier/ Van der Lem 291e.
- Both vols. bookplate on upper pastedown; occas. sl. foxed; first vol. sl. waterstained. Covers trifle rubbed; rebacked w. use of the orig. backstrip.
= Ebert 12250; Haitsma Mulier/ Van der Lem 311d.
- First two vols. annots. on upper pastedown and first free endpaper; all vols. (sl.) foxed/ browned. Vellum w. some sm. (water)stains.
= Haitsma Mulier/ Van der Lem 311f.
- Sm. annot. on upper pastedown; sl. foxed. Sm. stain on frontcover.
= Haitsma Mulier/ van der Lem 311h.
- A few lvs. w. sm. brown stain in blank margin. Good/ fine copy.
= Landwehr, Dutch Books w. Col. Plates 369.
- Lacks title-p. = Dekkers p.109; De Buck 2182.
- Loose(ning); partly (vaguely) waterst.
- Several library stamps on first free endpaper, second blank and in the text; some occas. foxing. Sl. warped; covers w. some sm. rubbed spots; spine-ends sl. rubbed.
AND 1 other: D. LUBACH, Natuurlijke Historie van Nederland (Haarlem, 1863, (col.) ills., contemp. hmor.). - ADDED: a stripped copy of Nassouer Heldens Pronk-Toonneel (Amst., 1663, contemp. vellum, sm. 8vo).
- Owner's entry on first free endpaper; (sl.) waterstained throughout; without the often lacking map. Covers sl. rubbed; frontcover loosening.
= The first edition of this posthumously published edition, edited by the author just before his death. Haitsma Mulier/ Van der Lem p.286; De Buck 2295.
- Part 2 and first 3 lvs. of part 1 waterstained in lower inner corner, sl. affecting text. Lower part of backstrip reattached; spine-ends chipped; paper ticket on frontcover; covers trifle rubbed.
= Cf. Knuttel 21756; Cioranescu 45223; Martin/ Walter III, 24427. The second part consists of notes, written by P.-H. Marron.
- Bindings w. some rubbed spots. Otherwise fine.
- Occas. sl. foxed; both vols. bookplate on upper pastedown. Covers rubbed; spine-ends sl. dam.; vols. numbered the wrong way around on spine.