2499 - 3244 OLD and RARE BOOKS
79/2519 Amsterdam and surroundings Gebouwen gezigten en oudheden der Stad Amsterdam 
- Plates (sl.) yellowed. = Nijhoff/ Van Hattum 105. The first edition.
79/2520 Amsterdam and surroundings Le Guide Ou Nouvelle Description d'Amsterdam Enseignant aux Voyageurs et aux Negocians Son Origine ses Agrandissements & son Etat actuel Sa Splendeur son C
- Fine copy. = Nijhoff/ Van Hattum 121.
BOUND WITH: Le Guide d'Amsterdam, avec la description de tout ce qu'il y a de plus intéressant. Ibid., iidem, 1793, 339,(34)p., 1 fold. plan and 28 ills. on 14 plates by D. VEELWAARD.
= Rare edition. Nijhoff/ Van Hattum 122: "Deze tekst is weder geheel verschillend van dien der vorige Guides".
79 2521 Amsterdam and surroundings Kok J 
- Sl. foxed; 3rd vol. upper hinge broken. All vols. joints split(ting), one backcover detached.
= Nijhoff/ Van Hattum 162. The "Bericht voor den binder" calls for the plan of Amsterdam and 9 plates only.
79 2522 Amsterdam and surroundings Wagenaar J 
- Occas. trifle foxed but otherwise internally exceptionally clean; 19th cent. owner's entry on first free endpaper. Spine-ends chipped and leather dried; paper over covers sl. worn off.
= LARGE PAPER and EXTRA ILLUSTRATED copy w. 55 additional plates, i.a. from C. COMMELIN, Beschryvinge van Amsterdam (1693) and P. FOUQUET, Nieuwe atlas der stad Amsterdam (1783). Nijhoff/ Van Hattum 311. As often without the fourth volume published 21 years after the third volume.
79 2523 Amsterdam and surroundings Wagenaar J 
79 2523 Amsterdam and surroundings Wagenaar J 
79 2523 Amsterdam and surroundings Wagenaar J 
- Vol. II lacks p.181-182 as always. All vols. lack free endpapers; occas. sl. foxed/ soiled; vol. I and II partly sl. waterst.; plates in good condition. (Sl.) worn at backstrips and edges; joints starting.
= EXTRA ILLUSTRATED copy, with 81 plates (incl. frontisp.) as usual and with 54 extra plates (numb. I-LXX, some lvs. w. 2 ills.) as called for in an extra binder's index in vol. III. Nijhoff/ Van Hattum 311. With the bookplate of Carl Viol by E. VAN DOESBURGH on upper pastedowns.
79 2524 Amsterdam and surroundings Wagenaar J 
79 2524 Amsterdam and surroundings Wagenaar J 
79 2524 Amsterdam and surroundings Wagenaar J 
- Vol. 2 lacks as usual p.181-182. Occas. sl. yellowed/ foxed in margins; vol. 2 title-p. and final textleaf loose(ning); vol. 3 upper pastedown detached; plates in good condition (1x w. tear on fold in lower margin). Bindings (sl.) worn/ rubbed.
= Nijhoff/ Van Hattum 311. As often without the fourth volume published 21 years after the third volume.
79 2525 Amsterdam and surroundings Wagenaar J 
- Lacks 1 map and 1 plate; occas. foxed/ sl. yellowed. All vols. lack 2nd letterpiece.
= Nijhoff/ Van Hattum 312.
79 2526 Amsterdam and surroundings Wagenaar J 
- Lacks 6 plates; a few plates and textlvs. torn; occas. sl. stained. Spine-ends worn/ dam.; worn along extremities. Sold w.a.f.
= Nijhoff/ Van Hattum 311. As often without the fourth volume published 21 years after the third volume.
79 2527 Amsterdam and surroundings Willink D 
- A few plates w. sm. tear along central fold, not affecting image; trifle browned. Vol. 1 upper joint starting at top of spine.
= Nijhoff/ Van Hattum 335.
79 2528 Amsterdam and surroundings Willink D 
- Without the fold. portrait (as usual). Yellowed/ sl. browned as usual. Joints starting; corners showing.
= The first edition. Nijhoff/ Van Hattum 331.
79 2529 Amsterdam and surroundings Zesen P von 
79 2529 Amsterdam and surroundings Zesen P von 
79 2529 Amsterdam and surroundings Zesen P von 
- Frontisp. dam. in upper outer corner; crossed out owner's entry on title-p. and in lower blank margin of frontisp.; fold. plans and panorama splitting/ strengthened on fold(s) (1x dam. w. loss of image); occas. closed tears in margin or central fold; yellowed as usual. Leather over covers sl. worn; foot of spine sl. dam.
= Nijhoff/ Van Hattum 350; Dünnhaupt 52,1: "Zesen versucht durch diese mit erstaunlicher Sachkunde verfaßte Topographie den Mitbürgern seiner Wahlheimat Amsterdam seinen Dank abzustatten."; Faber du Faur 824: "(...) a sort of 17th Century Baedeker, with excellent factual descriptions of the streets, embankments and buildings (...)". One of the nicest townbooks of Amsterdam, finely illustrated and rarely found complete. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XCIII.
79 2530 Amsterdam and surroundings Zesen P von 
79 2530 Amsterdam and surroundings Zesen P von 
- Partly duststained/ fingersoiled in blank outer margin; one fold. plan w. sm. (closed) tear in right margin; a few plates w. closed folds. Upper hinge broken; lower joint splitting. Good copy.
= Nijhoff/ Van Hattum 350. The rare 12mo edition. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XCIII.
79 2531 Antonides van der Goes J 
- Upper hinge broken (first quire loosening); 2 sm. owner's stamps on first free endpaper. Otherwise fine.
= Consists of three parts: Gedichten, De Ystroom and Trazil, of overrompelt Sina. Landwehr, R. de Hooghe as bookill. 9. (listing the first ed. 1671); Nijhoff/ Van Hattum 7 (note). On the Ystroom: in this extensive poem Antonides van der Goes describes his walk along the IJ, where he crosses the "houttuin", the "vismarkt", the house of Michiel de Ruyter, the "West-Indisch Huis", the "Zeemagazijn" and the "Scheepstimmerwerf" and he describes the history of i.a. whaling and ice-skating.
AND 1 other.
79 2532 Archaeology Millin A L 
- Covers sl. chafed.
= The author was a professor and conservator at the Museum of Antiquities in the National Library of Paris.
79 2533 Ariosto L 
79 2533 Ariosto L 
79 2533 Ariosto L 
- Bindings sl. worn along edges; spine-ends sl. dam.; 1 letterpiece worn off.
Tasso, T. La Gerusalemme liberata. Ed. N. Ciangulo. Leipsic, the editor, 1740, 2 parts in 1 vol., (12),XXIV,264; XXII,263,(1)p., 2 ident. engr. titles, contemp calf w. gilt spine and mor. letterpiece.
- Stamp on title-p. w. offsetting on opposite lvs. Spine-ends sl. dam.; sl. worn along edges.
= Bound with "Panegirico (...) Il Signor Conte Augusto Enrico di Frisa (...)" (Leipsic(?), 1742) by N. CIANGULO.
AND 1 other by C. GOLDONI in 2 vols. - ADDED: 2 French works in 3 vols.
79/2534 Aristoteles Commentarii Collegii Conimbricensis Societatis lesu 
79/2534 Aristoteles Commentarii Collegii Conimbricensis Societatis lesu 
- Upper hinge weak; first work w. contemp. owner's entry on title; partly sl. dampst. in upper outer blank margin. Corners and spine-ends crudely restored/ strengthened w. leather; top of spine worn.
= Contains the following works: 1. Commentarii (...) in tres libros de anima, Aristotelis Stagiritae (1627); 2. (...) in quatuor libros de Coelo, Meteorologicos, Parva Naturalia, & Ethica Aristotelis Stagiritae (1616); 3. (...) in libros meteorum Aristotelis Stagiritae (1616); 4. (...) in libros Aristotelis, qui parva naturalia apellantur (1616); 5. In libros ethicorum Aristotelis ad Nicomachum aliquot Conimbricensis cursus disputationes (1616).
79 2535 Artists' manuals Bloemaert A 
79 2535 Artists' manuals Bloemaert A 
79 2535 Artists' manuals Bloemaert A 
79 2535 Artists' manuals Bloemaert A 
79 2535 Artists' manuals Bloemaert A 
79 2535 Artists' manuals Bloemaert A 
79 2535 Artists' manuals Bloemaert A 
79 2535 Artists' manuals Bloemaert A 
79 2535 Artists' manuals Bloemaert A 
- Lacks title-p./ dedic./ 3 engravings; 2 engravings loose; a few w. vague fold/ trifle yellowed; overall fine. Mounted ticket on spine.
= Bolten p.253: "The leading example of the master model in the Netherlands is the drawing book by Abraham Bloemaert. (...) Bloemaert's drawing examples are not derived from those of other authors. They represent the fruits of a life of industrious study in academies and after nature (...)." The original edition of this work was published by the artist in 1650 as Artis Apellae Liber and contained approx. 120 plates. Provenance: the collection C. Ploos van Amstel (with his bookplate and signature on upper pastedown) and the collection A.M. van den Broek. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XCII.
79 2536 Artists' manuals Boschini M 
- Lacks 2 final (index) lvs. of the 3rd part; fingersoiled and sl. yellowed; marginal tear in first 2 text lvs. incl. title-p. Binding sl. worn.
= Cicognara 4351; cf. Cicogna 4673 (ed. Venice, 1664).
79 2537 Artists' manuals Hoogstraeten S van 
79 2537 Artists' manuals Hoogstraeten S van 
79 2537 Artists' manuals Hoogstraeten S van 
- Lacks the portrait; final free endpaper folded. Nevertheless a fine copy.
= Arntzen/ Rainwater H63; Kunst op schrift 23. The first and only edition of this handbook for artists by one of Rembrandt's pupils. Five plates devoted to the human proportions, the other nine representing the classical muses and the 4 remarkable textills. illustrating the way light falls and shadows are cast.
79 2538 Artists' manuals Houbraken A 
79 2538 Artists' manuals Houbraken A 
79 2538 Artists' manuals Houbraken A 
79 2538 Artists' manuals Houbraken A 
79 2538 Artists' manuals Houbraken A 
- Title-page vol. 2 loose; apart of occas. minor foxing all contents fine. All bindings sl. worn/ dam.; vol. 2 and 3 frontcover w. first endpapers loose(ning).
= Chamberlin 2008: "As valuable for the 17th century in the Low Countries as Van Mander is for the 16th"; Arntzen/ Rainwater H97: "Important source". All engravings (incl. frontisp., vignette and portrait) in first part printed in red, in the last 2 parts in black.