[Edifying letters by a well-known English divine, translated into Dutch and illustrated by Simon Fokke - the engravings are finely coloured by hand] 2 vols. 8vo. Contemporary boards are covered with marbled paper, with red title labels and oval green volume labels lettered in gold. With two engraved title pages and 12 numbered full-page engraved illustrations by Simon Fokke, all nicely coloured and heightened with gold within a gilt line by a contemporary hand. XVI, 384; VIII, 408 pp. FIRST and only edition of the translations into Dutch of these edifying letters on various subjects. Volume 1: After a preface by the author, dated Taunton, April 1763, there are the translations of two laudatory poems (one by Thomas Gibbon), the preface by the translator, dated 12 July 1762, and the letters: 5 'Over den oceaan, of de zee ((p. 1-144); 4 with 'Godvrugtige bespiegelingen van den oogst en het graen (pp. 145-240); 2 with 'Godvrugtige bespiegelingen van ziekte oft krankheit' (pp. 241-72), one 'Over het laetste oordeel (pp. 271-304); and 3 with 'Godvrugtige bespiegelingen onder het wandelen in een bosch' (pp. 305-384). Coloured plates in order: Volume 1. 1. Frontispiece. A man sits in an ornate chair, holding a hefty tome in his right hand, looking out of the window as shafts of sunlight fall over him. A lady in the foreground arranges dry flower petals on a table. 2. Sunset over the Ocean, as seen by a small group of people. 3. A small party of people converses with a Fisherman along a beach. 4. The sun is setting over a blessed harvest. In the background, a man is ploughing, while another sows by hand. In the foreground, a man shields his eyes from the sun. 5. Man, with a book tucked under his arm, looks up at insects flying above him; beside him are three beehives, two men converse in the background, holding wheat storks in their hands. 6. Young man in bed, possibly ill? 7. Pastor walks through a forest, communing with nature. A courting couple is seen in the background. Volume 2. 8. Frontispiece. Man composing a letter in his library. 9. Lady sitting in a formal garden, holding a rose in her hand, by a fountain, next to a chateau. 10. Young ladies are standing, talking around a table; an older lady is seen in the foreground looking at a length of material. 11. People (in a rural setting) sit reading by (full) moonlight, under trees, by a stream. Animals in the foreground. 12. People in a (city setting) gaze in wonder at the full moon above them in the night sky. 13. A couple conversing and walking arm in arm through a forest; other people are seen in the background. 14. A young man emerges nervously from a wood, only to find many of the lovely trees have been or are being chopped down and taken away.