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5 tomes en 4 volumes in-folio (391 x 250 mm), plein veau blond marbré de l’époque, dos à 6 nerfs guillochés or, ornés de caissons richement fleuronnés et cloisonnés, armes dorées au centre des plats, pièces de titre et de tomaison de veau havane et blond, coiffes et coupes filetées or, tranches rouges. Edition la plus complète des oeuvres collectives de Pierre Bayle, donnée par Pierre Desmaizeaux, proche protégé de l'auteur. "Edition qui doit être préférée à celle de 1727-31, parce qu'elle contient, de plus que la première, cent cinquante lettres à sa famille, formant un cahier de 211 pages qui est placé à la fin du premier volume" (Brunet). "Ce recueil contient tous les ouvrages publiés de Bayle, hors le dictionnaire. Il comprend aussi tout ce qui avait été imprimé de la correspondance" (Delvolve, 'Pierre Bayle…', Bibliographie, p. 436). Selon le catalogue de la BnF, qui se fonde sur le matériel typographique, cette édition aurait été imprimée en France, probablement à Trévoux. Vignette de titre allégorique gravée par Frederik Ottens, d'après Bernard Picard. Table des matières en tête de chaque volume et table des matières de l'ensemble en fin du volume IV. Le premier volume renferme plusieurs gravures sur bois dans le texte et 3 planches hors texte sur cuivre (pages 518, 578 [placé face 584] et 600). Le volume III est divisé en deux parties sous page de faux-titre, titre particulier et pagination continue. Le volume IV renferme plusieurs illustrations sur bois dans le texte dont trois grandes représentations des systèmes planétaires de Ptolémée (p. 394), de Ticho-Brahé (p. 398) et Copernic (p. 401). Quelques rousseurs et petites auréoles éparses. Quelques traces de restauration à la reliure. Très bel exemplaire en veau blond de l'époque aux armes de Jean-Claude Fauconnet de Vildé (1694–1765) dorées sur les plats (aux volumes II, II et IV). Ecuyer, conseiller du roi et de la Ville de Paris, il devint avocat à la cour et au Parlement (Catalogue des livres de feu M. Fauconnet de Vilde, Paris, de Bure le jeune, 1765, p. 24). (Guigard, II, 210. OHR, pl. 1654).
In-4, plein vélin rigide de l'époque, dos titré à la plume, (16), 364, (14) p. Edition princeps de la célèbre autobiographie testamentaire d'Uriel da Costa ('Exemplar humanae vitae'), composée à la veille de son suicide en 1640 et publiée "presque par hasard" (Daniel Lacerda) quarante-sept années après sa mort. Elle est insérée entre les pages 341 et 354 d'un recueil qu'un ministre calviniste arminien, Philip Van Limborch professeur à Amsterdam (1633-1712), consacre à la défense de la "vérité de la religion chrétienne", en discussion avec un Juif érudit, Isaac Orobio de Castro (c.1617-1687), lui-même réfugié du Portugal à Amsterdam. Éditée d'après un manuscrit et peut-être révisée, "Une vie humaine" est suivie de sa réfutation par Limborch. Né au sein d'une famille portugaise marrane, Uriel Da Costa (1585-1640) s'installa à Amsterdam en 1617 et revint au judaïsme, mais il entra bientôt en conflit avec la synagogue. Soumis à une humiliante pénitence publique, il se suicida. Ce document demeurait l'unique seule source d'informations sur Uriel da Costa jusqu'à la découverture récente (1990), à la bibliothèque d'Amsterdam, d'un exemplaire unique d'un autre de ses textes que l'on croyait perdu ("Exame das tradições fariseas") et qui le place aux côtés de Spinoza, dix années avant la condamnation de celui-ci, parmi les victimes du durcissement doctrinaire des autorités juives d'Amsterdam. "Cette autobiographie écrite par Uriel da Costa en 1640 avant de se suicider, reflète toute la culture et toutes les interrogations religieuses de cet esprit qui passa du christianisme-marranisme au judaïsme puis au sadducéisme, enfin au déisme vénérant la Nature. Juif portugais d'Amsterdam, Gabriel, devenu Uriel da Costa, reflète - lui et toute sa famille, affiliée à celle de Spinoza - les recherches de cette société des nouveaux convertis du Portugal et des pays occidentaux au XVII° siècle" (Béatrice Leroy). Cf. I.S. Revah, H. Méchoulan et coll., 'Des Marranes à Spinoza', Vrin, 1995, passim. (Bamberger, 'The printed literature of Spinozism', n° 67. Fürst, 'Bibliotheca judaica', I, p. 17). Quelques rousseurs éparses. Petite trace de restauration de vélin au dos. Très bon exemplaire, très bien conservé dans sa première reliure hollandaise de vélin rigide.
[42] + 1139 + [i] pp., first and only edition, 22cm., contemporary overlapping full vellum binding which is in tact and in good condition (less a small defect on front cover), red edges, title in black and red, engraved vignette on title page, text clean and bright with only few occasional light stains, good condition, [Philippus Rovenius 1574-1651, catholic priest, archbishop of Philippi (1620) and Apostolic Vicar of Holland, played an important role in the propagation of Roman Catholic faith in the 17th cy. Dutch protestant Republic. Since it was impossible to establish a seminary in Holland at that time, Rovenius was convinced that publications such as his "Institutiones christianae pietatis" could contribute in great part to the 'devotional education' of (future) priests (and lay man). Cfr. Visser: Rovenius und seine Werke (pp.34-54)], R96559
Paris, l'édition d'Art H Piazza 1910. In-8 relié plein-maroquin mosaïqué à longs grains vert et incrusté de tulipes. Dos à nerfs très orné de motifs spéciaux en deux tons, plats très décorés des mêmes motifs en guirlandes, filets dorés, toutes tranches dorées. Gardes de papier marbré et guirlande d'encadrement noire, filets dorés sur les coupes, couverture conservée, étui. Cinquante illustrations en couleurs au pochoir, encadrements et lettrines d'Henri CASSIERS. Texte dans un encadrement différent à chaque page. Tirage à 300 exemplaires, celui-ci sur papier Vélin blanc à la cuve des Manufactures Blanchet et Kléber, et portant le n° 292. Ex-libris. Très bel exemplaire dans une reliure signée de H. BLANCHETIERE qui fût élève de R. KIEFFER.
ROTTERDAM - 1775 - In-8 - 1/2 reliure, dos à 4 nerfs avec pièce de titre noire et titre doré - Plats et gardes marbrés - Armoiries de chaque famille - Table - 411 pages - Légères traces d'humidité en premières pages sinon propre
1st edition. Modern boards. 64mo (2x4, miniature), [26]+ 384 pages. In Latin. Engraved title page, illustrated, with portrait medallion: "vatis amatoris iulia sculpta manu." Author's portrait on leaf 10. Each work has divisional title page. Johannes Secundus (also Janus Secundus or Jean Second) (1511-1536), was a an erotic New Latin poet of Dutch nationality....Secundus was a prolific writer, and in his short life he produced several books of elegies on his lovers Julia and Neaera, epigrams, odes, verse epistles and epithalamia, as well as some prose writings (epistles and itineraria)....Secundus situates his poetry, stylistically as well as thematically, firmly with the Neo-Catullan tradition. Variations on the central theme include: imagery of natural fertility; the 'arithmetic' of kissing; kisses as nourishment or cure; kisses that wound or bring death; and the exchange of souls through kissing. Secundus also introduces elements of Neo-Platonism and Petrarchism into his poems (wikipedia). Subjects: Latin poetry, Medieval and modern -- Early works to 1800. Epigrams, Latin. OCLC: 781619207. Spelling and date error on spine. Includes second identical title page with inscription dated 1686. Pen marks on a few pages and period owners notation on rear blank end paper. Touch of edgewear to first title page and to background margin of portrait on leaf 10. Good+ Condition Overall. Nice copy. (AC-22-2)
In 4° (23,8×19 cm); (16), XLVIII, (12), 193, 192, (14) pp. e 32 tavv. f.t. ripiegate e una tabella. 2 parti in un volume. Bella legatura coeva in tutta pergamena rigida con titolo parlato al dorso. First edition, good copy. Frontespizio in rosso e nero. Prima edizione in ottime condizioni di conservazione di questa raccolta illustrata di esperimenti relativi alla misurazione di umidità, pressione atmosferica, la struttura del ghiaccio, caldo e freddo, capillarità, ottica, il movimento del suono, il magnete, ecc. Esemplare con leggerissima ed uniforme brunitura dovuta alla tipica qualità della carta utilizzata a Leida ma non fastidiosa e meno intense che nelle altre copie conosciute e nel complesso bellissimo esemplare. Opera di estrema importanza per la storia della fisica moderna. Qui è presente anche la prima descrizione del pirometro (Pyrometer chiamato così da Musschenbroek), uno strumento per misurare la dilatazione dei corpi solidi quando esposti al calore. Pieter van Musschenbroek (1692-1761), professore di fisica a Leida, fu un grande ammiratore di Newton e Desaguliers. Iniziatore della fisica sperimentale in Olanda, il suo insegnamento fu particolarmente apprezzato per la qualità dei suoi esperimenti. L’eccellenza delle sue lezioni aiutò a mantenere la reputazione che l’Università di Leida aveva acquisito sotto Boerhaave e Gravesande, continuando ad attrarre studenti provenienti da tutta Europa, tra i quali Jean Antoine Nollet che divenne poi il primo professore di fisica sperimentale presso l’Università di Parigi. Il suo nome rimane legato all’invenzione della così detta “bottiglia di Leida” che ebbe un’importanza cruciale sulle ricerche riguardanti l’elettricità. La bottiglia di Leida costituisce la forma più antica di condensatore. Fu utilizzata per condurre molti dei primi esperimenti sull’elettricità durante la seconda metà del XVIII secolo. In questo libro, l’autore, raccoglie e presenta con commenti, integrazioni e spiegazioni diversi esperimenti fisici portati avanti nell’Accademia del Cimento. Il tutto è preceduto da un discorso sulla storia e i fondamenti della fisica sperimentale. L’opera contiene anche la prima traduzione in latino dell’opera del Magalotti “Saggi di naturali esperienze”, fatta dallo stesso Petrus van Musschenbroek che aggiunse ad essa le sue “Oratio de methodo instituendi experimenta physica” i “Commentarii” (o “Additamenta”) e “Nova Experimenta” che contengono importantissime aggiunte e nuove esperienze pratiche mai prima provate. Tra gli esperimenti effettuati molti “deal with the mechanics of rigid bodies, air pressure, heat, cohesion, capillarity, phosphorescence, magnetism, and electricity. Many of these experiments have become classics in elementary instruction. One of the better-known apparatuses is the pyrometer (the name was given by Musschenbroek) first described in the Tentamina of 1731…” (Dict. of Scientific Biogr., vol. 9, pp. 594-6). Prima non comune edizione in ottime condizioni di conservazione. Rare. A good copy. Bibl.: Wellcome Vol. 4 p. 23; Graesse IV, 637 e VI, 218; Wheeler Gift Cat. 276.
In 12° (13×7,5 cm); (10), 175, (17) pp., un’antiporta figurata e 3 c. di tav. fuori testo più volte ripiegate. Bella legatura coeva in tutta pergamena molle. Dorso a 4 nervi con titolo manoscritto da mano coeva. Pagine leggermente ed uniformemente brunite ma esempalre in buone-ottime condizioni di conservazione. Prima rara edizione, due sole copie censite in ICCU e con numero minore di pagine e tavole, di questo importante studio pionieristico sulla saliva ed i dotti salivali. Antonius Nuck van Leiden (Harderwijk, 1650 – Leida, 5 agosto 1692) è stato uno dei medici e anatomisti più celebri del suo tempo. Dopo aver studiato a Leida, dove ricevette il dottorato nel febbraio del 1677, con una tesi sul diabete praticò l’arte medica a Delft. Nel 1683 si spostò a L’Aia per insegnare anatomia al Collegium anatomicum chirurgicum. Tornò poi a Leida dove ottenne una cattedra di medicina e anatomia. Famoso anche come oculista, otorino, dentista viene ricordato principalmente per i suoi studi sui vasi linfatici e le ghiandole salivari, di cui è considerato uno dei pioniere: inventò infatti la prima scialografia, sia introducendo un mezzo di “contrasto” nei dotti salivari, sia nei vasi sanguigni, come aveva già tentato Frederik Ruysch (1638-1731). Il suo nome attualmente è legato al dotto di Nuck e alle sue patologie. Esemplare in buone-ottime condizioni di conservazione. RARO. RARE. Good copy. Bibl.: Krivatsy, 8359 e Wellcome IV p. 250.
Octavo. Pp. x, 150, (iii). Plus 6 large folding maps tipped-in. Plus 2 tables, one folding. Hardcover, bound in contemporary pebbled half cloth and matching marbled boards, spine gilt, bit faded, old shelf ticket; old institutional stamps to title-page. In about fine condition. Excellent copy, crisp maps. ~ First edition. Rare.
1st Edition. Original Boards with Original Dust Jacket. 4to. 207 pages ; 28 cm. Includes 97 plates of Zadkines work. In English. Ossip Zadkine (1890 1967) was a Russian-born artist who lived in France. He is primarily known as a sculptor, but also produced paintings and lithographs. He was born to a Jewish father and a mother of Scottish origin His best-known work is probably the sculpture The Destroyed City (1951-1953) , representing a man without a heart, a memorial to the destruction of the center of the Dutch city of Rotterdam in 1940 by the German Luftwaffe. (Wikipedia, 2016) This copy is warmly inscribed by Zadkine in 1965 to the notable Judaica Collector Michael M. Zagayski and his wife. Zagayski began collecting as a youth in Poland and had accumulated an impressive number of valuable items which were looted by the invading Nazis, in 1939, when he was attending a Jewish Agency meeting in Geneva. Only a year later he began a new collection Mr. Zagayski came to the United States during World War II to serve as a vice-consul of the Polish Government in Exile. (Jewish Telegraphic Agency) Two items laid in. First, a 1955 catalog from Mr. Zagayskis sale of a 1150 AD eition of Josephus The Jewish War and Volume II of the fist Hebrew Bible printed in Spain. Second, an additional set of photographs of Zadkines sculptures printed in 1958. SUBJECT(S) : Sculpteurs -- France -- Biographies. Zadkine, Ossip. Dust Jacket has a very small tear, but on the whole this is a very beautiful copy. Jacket, book, plates, inscription, and additional laid in materials are all in Very Good Condition. (FR-2-16)
Four volumes, comprising of 2 Text volumes and 2 Atlases. I. Two Text volumes: Octavo. Pp. x, (i) errata, 543; xiii, 400. [AND:] II. Two Atlases of maps. Small folio, comprising respectively of 10 multi-colour maps lithographically printed on 7 large folding sheets of ca. 40x60 cm each; and of 7 lithographically printed folding maps, often multi-coloured. Hardcover, all volumes uniformly bound in the original publisher's burgundy cloth and printed boards, the atlases are in the form of portfolios with cloth ties; bit rubbed at extremities, old military institutional stamp to each cover, title-page, and verso of maps. In a very good condition. ~ First edition. Very rare complete set of this massive work on the topography and military geography of the Dutch East-Indies.
Duodecimo. Pp. 147. Hardcover, bound in the original publisher's illustrated boards, engraved armorial emblem to each side within decorative frame, shelf tickets to spine, old institutional stamps to title and prelims, title bit browned, boards worn, faded, soiled in places. In a very good condition. ~ First edition. Not in Jordan. Preserving the extremely scarce original armorial binding, very solid and still with a charm. ~ Johannes Gerrit Willem Merkes van Gendt, (1798-1859). Engineer Lieutenant Colonel, Knight of the Order of the Netherlands Lion, Knight of the Order of the White Falcon, Knight and later Officer of the Legion of Honour, Knight of the Swedish Order of the Sword, Knight of the Order of the Crown Württemberg. Prolific and brilliant writer he wrote extensively on military fortification, engineering and fortress warfare. He died as Mayor of the City of Gendt. ~ First edition of Merkes' "Verhandeling over het belang der vestingen voor den staat" in two volumes (Brussel, 1826-27), is also available by Librarium.
25pp., 23cm., contemporaine perkamenten band, goede staat, enkele roestplekjes en vage plakken in tekst, zeldzaam, [mee ingebonden met: 1: Refutatio responsi ad libellum cui titulus 'Motivum juris etc." (Haarlem, 1703, 74pp.), 2: Libellus supplex sanctissimo domino nostro Clementi XI. Oblatus per Decanum & canonicos Harlemenses (Haarlem, 1705, 22pp. met o.m. een brief van De Swaen en Ph. Rovenius ui 1636), 3: Denuntiatio apologetica Petri Coddaei archiepiscopi Sebasteni, sinceris solidisque documentis firmata (Utrecht, 1706, 78pp.), 4: Openbaer verweerschrift door den bisschop van Sebaste aengaende zijne zaek in 't licht gegeven ende met bondige bewijsstukken bekrachtigt (Utrecht, 1706, 108pp.), 5: Memorie aan de Ed. Groot Mog. Heeren Staaten van Holland en West-Friesland etc. (s.d., 10pp.), 6: Protest van de roomskatholyke clergie van de voornaeme steden in Zuytholland en van hunne medestanders tegen de uytgevers en verbreyders van zekere brieven de naem voerende van den heer Joannes Baptista Buffy etc. (viii + 147 + iii pp., s.d., met 32 hoofdstukken o.m. met Jansenistische onderwerpen], zeldzaam, N96531
2 volumes in-8, plein veau havane, dos à nerfs (rel. moderne), viij, 310 p. et 323 p., vignettes, culs-de-lampe et 3 planches dépliantes. Première édition illustrée de 3 planches dont 2 dépliantes et de jolies vignettes. Chaque oeuvre figure sous page de titre particulière. Bien que diffusée confidentiellement, l'oeuvre d'Hemsterhuis exerça une influence majeure sur ses contemporains: Diderot, qui le fréquenta et le commenta, Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi dont la 'Lettre à M Hemsterhuis' sur Spinoza (1784) est insérée pour la première fois dans cette édition, mais aussi Herder, Goethe, Hölderlin, Novalis et Schlegel. "Les thèmes des données immédiates de la conscience et du retour à la vie simple qu‘illustrera Bergson sont toujours présents (…). Bien avant les romantiques, il proclame l’union de la poésie et de la philosophie dans un éloge de l’enthousiasme qui met l’imagination à la source de toute appréhension de la vérité (…). L’apport fondamental de Hemsterhuis à la pensée de son temps est de l’avoir, par son platonisme, écarté de tout empirisme et de tout matérialisme sans pour autant la limiter à une fonction critique, mais en lui restituant son sens métaphysique" (J.-L. Vieillard-Baron, 'Hemsterhuis platonicien', in XVIIIe siècle, VII, 1975, p. 129-146). Sur l'importance de l'oeuvre d'Hemsterhuis, sa singularité et ses recherches visant à "retrouver l'originalité profonde du spinozisme et à la dégager des perversions modernes", cf. P. Vernière, 'Spinoza et la pensée française', p. 668-673. (R.E. Stoddard, 'Hemsterhuis, bibliography', "The Book collector", vol. 50/2, n°13, p. 197). Faux-titre du tome I légèrement grisé dans la marge. Petit défaut à un mors. Quelques petites rousseurs et piqûres éparses. Bon exemplaire, frais, non rogné.
Four parts bound in three volumes. Small octavo. Pp. (iv), 144, 145-232; (ii), 268; (ii), 150, 151-271. The 2nd part encompasses part of the 1st volume and the entire 2nd volume. Title-pages printed in red and black. Different woodcut device to each title-page. Woodcut head- and tail-pieces. Main title repeated on each of the four part title-pages. Hardcover, uniformly bound in contemporary half vellum and marbled boards, manuscript lettering to each spine in neat contemporary hand; small shelf ticket to each half-title, small old institutional stamps to verso of title, minute chip at blank margin of one title-page and one internal leaf. A lovely set in a very good condition, untrimmed, preserved entirely in the original state in the first binding. ~ First edition. Jean-Baptiste Colbert, Marquess of Torcy (1665-1746).
Four volumes bound in 3, comprising of 3 Text volumes bound in two and one Atlas. I. Text: Crown Quarto. Pp. viii, 357, (1) Errata; iv, 292; v, 480. Hardcover, uniformly bound in contemporary half cloth and marbled boards, spines faded, one broken spine reattached, extremities rubbed, first free endpaper of one volume frayed. Old shelf ticket to spine, old military institutional stamps to title-page. Solid though fair bindings over interiors which are rather fine, neat and clean. [AND:] II. Atlas: Comprising of 64 lithographic maps printed on 57 folding sheets, and 5 semitransparent folding map-overlays printed in red, all numbered and captioned in large letterpress, all placed in portfolio of half cloth and marbled boards with 3 pairs of ties, manuscript lettering-piece in neat contemporary hand on cover. In a very good condition. ~ First edition. Very rare complete set which includes the Atlas of maps, fully collated for completeness and condition.
Door den Heer De Mezeray, raad, en Historieschryver des Konings van Vrankryk, in't Nederduitsch gebracht door G. v. Broekhuisen1, 2 vol. fort in-4 rel. plein vélin du temps dos à 5 nerfs, plats estampés à froid, Timotheus Ten Hoorn, Jan Bouman, t' Amsterdam, 1685, Tome I : 54 pl. hors texte - frontispice, 3 ff. n. ch. (titre et Aan de Leezer), 990 pp. et 11 ff. n. ch. (tables) ; Tome II : 8 pl. hors texte - 997 pp., 9 ff. n. ch. (tables) et 1 f. n. ch. (errata) Bon exemplaire, en reliure du temps (rel. lég. frottées, petite fente au mors en queue, petite tache à un plat, mq. le premier feuillet de garde du tome I) de cette traduction hollandaise des Chroniques de Mézeray, bien complet du frontispice et des 62 portraits hors texte (certains parmi les portraits des premiers rois étaient demeurés blancs). Klaversma et Hannema, Jan en Casper Luyken, 383-384 Néerlandais
Octavo. Pp. 32. Original stiff wrappers, bit worn, frayed, lower wrap gone; some foxing. In good condition. ~ First edition. Extremely rare. Published for the benefit of the wounded and mutilated gunner G. van den Akker with a note to this effect pasted at bottom of front wrapper. Rosier (Pieter Jacobus) Faassen, 1833-1907 was a prolific writer, actor and playwright, Knight in the Order of Oranje-Nassau. His dramatic oeuvre numbers more than twenty plays, including box-office successes like "Anne-Mie", "De Ledige Wieg" (The Vacant Crib) and the one-act play "Manus de Snorder" (Manus the Coachman). He published his autobiography "Mijn leven" in 1897 and it was reprinted several times. "De Militaire Willemsorde" is a one-act play whose main character is Van Balen, elderly veteran decorated with the Military William Order, the oldest and highest honour of the Kingdom of the Netherlands.
LEYDEN, Haak, 1714 - In-8 - Reliure de l'époque en vélin estampé à froid -Frontispice, vignette sur la page de titre - 36 planches gravées avec les portraits et les devises des 36 comtes de Hollande - (6), 72 & 6 pages - bon exemplaire - Très rare
Two parts in one volume. Paginated consecutively. Crown quarto. Pp. (ii), 22; (ii), 25-108. Plus 2 sketch maps, one of which is folding. Several tables. Original wrappers, bit worn and shabby, shelf tickets and old institutional stamp. In a very good internal condition, entirely still unopened. ~ First edition. Extremely rare. Roldanus submitted this work to a competition called in 1886 by the Vereeniging ter beoefening van de Krijgswetenschap, titled "De approviandeering der ontworpen stelling van Amsterdam, hare voorbereiding in tijd van vrede en hare uitvoering bij het uitbreken van een oorlog." The three contributors shared the price of fl. 500 but only Roldanus' work was found suitable for publication. In his work he goes into great detail as to the necessary provisions required both in time of peace and at war. In the supplementary tables he even provides a census of neighbouring municipalities, villages and hamlets that form the Defence Line of Amsterdam and specifies how many kilograms of meat, potatoes, peas, beans, rice, sugar, coffee, salt, paper, etc. etc. would be necessary to support these populations.
Two works bound in one volume. Small folio. Pp. 39, set in double columns; 23. Contemporary marbled paper over limp boards, sewn over two vellum ties, one of which is broken with upper board almost detached; old annotation on cover. In a very good condition. Untrimmed, unsophisticated copy with ample margins preserved entirely in the original state. ~ First edition. Rare. One copy is in the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam; one copy is in the National Military Museum, Netherlands.
Royal octavo. Pp. 110, (1) Errata. Plus 5 tables numbered I-IV, printed on 3 large folding sheets at end. Bound in the original plain paper covered boards, corner creased, shelf tickets and ends enforcement, old institutional stamps to title-page. An untrimmed copy entirely in the original state in a very good condition. ~ First edition. Extremely rare. The annonymous veteran is T. J. Stieltjes (1819-1878). His controversial book created a rather tempered chain reaction, first with the publication of "Bedenkingen van een' jong' soldaat, tegen eenige der denkbeelden van een' oud' soldaat (.)" Amersfoort, 1843). When also the pamphlet "Vlugtige bedenkingen tegen de denkbeelden van een oud soldaat (.)" appeared shortly thereafter, Stieltjes was quick to respond and his publisher issued in haste the publication "Nadere ontwikkeling (.)" (Nijmegen 1843). A few years later Stieltjes wrote in length his "Is Nederland nog te verdedigen? Toestemmend beantwoord door den schrijver der denkbeelden van een oud - soldaat (.)" (Nijmegen, 1849), to be followed by "'Hoe Nederland te verdedigen is. In ruwe trekken aangeduid, door een Oud-Soldaat" (Nijmegen, 1853). See also: W. J. Knoop in "De Gids", 14th year, 1949-50.
Octavo. Pp. 139 (verso blank), (1) Errata, (1) publisher's ad. Plus lithograph map bound at end. Hardcover, bound in contemporary cloth and marbled boards, old shelf tickets to spine, old military institutional stamps to cover and half-title and title; map foxed, small hole at blank upper margin of map well outside frame. In a very good condition. ~ First edition. Gerardus Petrus Booms (1882-1897). Military author and historian, General in the Dutch army, Minister of War. See also: J. Harskamp: "A Colonial Obsession: Dutch Narrative Literature on the East Indies 1800 - 1945. A Catalogue of Holdings in the British Library". The finely drawn map is entitled "Schetskaart van de Reede van Atjeh, door de Luitenants t/z. J.M.H. Bervoets en C.H. de Goeje, Februari 1873". It incorporates an inset "Figurative Schetsteekening der Hoofd Afdeeling Atjeh". The last page in the book is a Publisher's advertisement for "Open brieven aan den heer G. F. W. Borel", originally published a year earlier in Samarang, republished by Baier and offered in Holland by De Bussy. The original Samarang, 1879 edition is also being offered by Librarium of The Hague.
Twenty-six issues bound in one volume. Quarto. Pp. Ca. 800. Plus 12p. Index. Hardcover, bound in the original publisher's quarter cloth and illustrated boards on which erroneous date is corrected in pen, slight wear to spine-ends, extremities bit rubbed, lower board bit soiled; one leaf of advertisements torn, some soiled old repairs to other few leaves. In a very good condition. ~ First edition. Complete year run of 26 issues, December 1942 - December 1943. All crosswords puzzles are meticulously completed in a very neat hand in pencil.
Royal octavo. Pp. vii, 166, viii, (34), (28). Plus 2 large colour lithograph maps and one table folded at end. Extended appendices, notes, errata, Publisher's catalogue. Hardcover, bound in the original publisher's cloth backed boards, printed sides, lettering-piece and shelf ticket to spine, spine worn in places, old institutional stamps, foxed. In good condition. ~ First edition. Complete with all maps and appendices. Not in Jordan.