- Hinges weakening; a few lvs. cut from the book. Covers sl. scuffed, otherwise fine.
= A "Receuil de Chansons" started by C.P. Steenhardt in 1819, containing many pages of song lyrics and a few pages of music-notation. The flipside of the book contains recipes for remedies and other common household applications, as well as three drawings/ sketches in pencil. The book continued to be used by Steenhardt's family members, evolving to be used for excerpts, quotes and some personal thoughts. The last entry was in 1951, with a small drawing of flowers on the opposite page.
ADDED: a manuscript notebook with recipes for soups, sauces, cakes and more by J.F. Verschoor, 1882, partly blank, w. the last few recipes in a different hand, contemp. hcl. (worn, contents partially loose).
= The Firma Oosterbaan was a business in fabrics, fashion articles, wallpaper and matrasses and was located in Woldstraat 18-20 in Steenwijk from 1866 to 1952. Comprises i.a. customers' orders for clothing/ fabrics (180x, 1920-1952); quittances and payment receipts (1922-1948, partly w. orig. envelope); a large quantity of advertising brochures and correspondence (mostly early 1950's); purchases and invoices (1937-1948); application letters (1941); 2 accounting books recording customers' outstanding debts and payments (1924-1928 and 1933-1935); wage statements; tax returns; as well as private administration and correspondence concerning the purchase of a sailing yacht and the construction of a boat house in Giethoorn.
= Contains several legal documents concerning Jaarsveld and surroundings, i.a. "Aan Jacob de Jong is toegestaan, dat hij zijn kind mag laaten doopen te Jaarsveld - als wonende bij de Kerk aldaar, doch behoorende tot Lexmond" (1803) and "Wij Willem, bij de gratie Gods, Koning der Nederlanden (...) op de voordragt van Onzen Minister van Binnenlandsche Zaken (...) hebben goedgevonden en verstaan, te benoemen en aanstellen (...) tot Hoogheemraad van den Lekkendijk Benedendams en IJsseldam, en tot Polderschout van de Polders onder Jaarsveld, Provincie Utrecht in plaats van Warnardus Verhagen, overleden, Zacharias de Klein" (1832); minutes, i.a. "Voor uittreksel [of the meeting] conform de Secretaris der Waterschappen Batuwe e.a. onder Jaarsveld, J.F. de Gier Heemraad" (1871), and various songs, i.a. a manuscript 'psalmberijming' titled "Nevens, Buiten, Voor en Over U" (anonymous) and H. VAN ALPHEN, "Zelfsbeproeving, avondzang".
= Contains several notarial acts, i.a. "Provisionele rekening, verantwoording en scheiding van den boedel en nalatenschap van wijlen Benjamin Verveer en zijne vooroverledene huisvrouw Annigje Bos" (Noord-Polsbroek etc., 1811); "Expeditie scheiding tusschen Teunis de Groot en Adriana de Groot beiden te Lexmond woonachtig van eenige onroerende goederen, hun aangenomen uit de boedel van wijlen Aart Kleijn" (1842); a venia aetatis of Sara Maria Santijn "woonende binnen de Stad Leyden oud ruim een en twintig jaaren" (on vellum, with (partly dam.) wax seal, 1759), and letters, i.a. "Lieve tantes, gisteren heb ik voor de piano een groote vijf gehad, ik was er erg blij mee. Mijnheer heeft mij gisteren lesgegeven omdat ik vrijdag met Mijnheer was wezen visschen." (Ameide, 1894).
= Deed by which Susanne Rolwagen, niece and heiress of Leonard Ras (former mayor of Alkmaar) transfers "seven morgen driehondert en sestig roeden lant" to Daniel Ras. Wieringerwaard was poldered in 1611.
- A few foxed spots. = Cf. Buijnsters-Smets p.53.
AND 3 others similar: Marriage wishes (2x)/ New Year's wish, dated 1815-1865 (all sl. creased/ (water)stained). - AND 1 other.
- Two brown stains in left margin; sm. tear in fold. = Buijnsters-Smets p.208.
AND 3 others similar, 1x published by the same.
= Joseph Bramah worked as locksmith from 1784 onwards. The firm changed its name into Bramah and Son in 1814, making 1814 the terminus ante quem. Very attractive portable writing desk in fine condition. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXXX.
- First and final blank lvs. sl. foxed/ soiled. A good/ fine copy written in a neat hand.
= One of several transcripts of Michielse's famous (but unpublished) so-called "Burlesque Notulen", humorous notes written while attending the often boring meetings of the Staten van Zeeland. The work starts off with the following couplet: "Ik schrijf een coddig Rijm, voor al die 't willen Lezen; Wat dat de Wereld is, of watze schijnd te Wezen; Hoe alle soort van volk, word bij de Neus geleijt, Door Eygenbaat en List, tot slaafsze dienstbaarheijt." The first entry (13 June 1676) begins with the lines: "Zoo dra d'Eerst' Edele was gekomen, Heeft men terstond een Boo vernomen; Die zey dat men op zaturdag, De staten te gemoete zag." Usually the works starts on 13 January, but perhaps in this case the date of 13 June is a mistake by the copyist. Numerous local events, disputes, intrigues etc. are elaborated upon. On Michielse see Nagtglas III, p.170-172.
- Binding w. worn spots and a large scratch on frontcover.
= Light Cavalry Division: Général de brigade Andre Thomas Perreimond. Register of all the outgoing letters by the General, to whom, when and with the (summary of the) contents of the letters. I.a. to various officials and officers in Zeeland, the Netherlands, related to the Walcheren Campaign of the British Army in 1809. I.a. 30 December to a "General Gillij": "Mon General, les hollandais qui sont dans l'isle de Walcheren doivent en partir demain. Mr. le marechal [Bessieres] duc D'Istrie a decédé qu'il seraient remplacés par la brigade du General Bourk en consequence cette brigade doit passer demain le Sloop vis a vis la batterie No.9 Siton(or Sinon?) quelle Sera de l'autre coté vous la dirigez sur les point de Werskapelle (Westkapelle), forth Den Baak et Veere (...).
- One leaf w. hole (w. loss of a few words); nudity of halfnaked men and women on most of the ills. and on title-vignettes censured in (near contemp.) pen and ink; one map ("De Roode Zee") dam. in margin of image; some maps strengthened w. paper on verso along margins/ on folds; all vols. w. new endpapers and all w. a stamp on htitle ("Jette S. Magdalena [...]" partly illegible); occas. sl. fingersoiled in margin; maps occas. yellowed/ sl. browned. Nevertheless a good and extremely rare set.
= Cat. NHSM 107; Tiele 10; Sabin 5; Muller, America 1887. A very good and near complete (if not complete) set of the folio edition, of which even separate vols. are rare. Each set of two vols. is devoted to the collected voyages of the Portuguese, the Spaniards, the English and the other nations. Only the voyages of the Dutch are not incorporated into the work. Each voyage has a separate title and index. SEE ILLUSTRATIONS PLATE LXXXI.
- Sl. mediocre copy: lacks 4 plates; a few plates loose(ning)/ dam.; bookblock shaken; upper hinge (nearly) broken; yellowed and fingersoiled throughout; general title lacks upper corner. Vellum worn/ sl. dam. and stained/ darkened.
= Cf. Tiele 5. Contains 2 parts: 1. "Seer Aanmerkelijke Scheeps-Togten, Gedaan door Franciscus Pizarrus en Didacus Almagrus, Van Panama Na Peru. In den Jare 1526"; 2. "Staat-zugtige scheeps-togten en krygsbedryven ter handhaving van der Portugyzen Opperbestuur in Oost-Indien, door Don Lopo vaz de Sampayo, gedaan in 't Jaar 1526".
- New endpapers. Fine copy.
= Tiele 173; Gay 2808; Henze I, 304 ("zuverlässiger und vollständiger als die früheren Berichte über Ober-Guinea"); cat. NHSM p.204 and cf. Kainbacher I, p.153. The very rare first edition, divided in 22 letters, written from S. George del Mina, the main Dutch trading-station, where the author was chief merchant in the service of the West-India-Company from 1689-1702. Chief source for the knowledge of the Dutch slave-trade during the latter half of the 17th century and important for the history of the commercial rivalry with the English, Danes and Brandeburgers. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXXXI.
- New endpapers. Rebacked.
= First English edition. The ship Commerce struck near Cape Bojador on August 28, 1815. The whole crew reached shore but the inhabitants forced them back to the wreck. They repaired the ship and after their second landing near Cape Barba, the crew was captured and enslaved by the people of the Cape. Gay 2789; cf. Kainbacher I, p.113 (listing the German ed. 1817); Sabin 71398; Henze IV, p.618.
- Margins cut sl. short; first quire loosening (but holding on 1 cord); margins occas. restored/ strengthened w. paper.
= Rare German transl. of a Dutch treatise by Lutheran Franz Alard on the statutes of the Roman Church, first published Frankf. a.M., 1560. ADB I, p.172; VD17 1:676151Q (only 1 copy).
- Upper hinge weak; lacks free endpapers; scattered owner's annots.; 1 leaf w. sm. holes (printing flaw); occas. (sl.) foxed/ browned. Vellum soiled/ dam.
= Provenance: convent of San Vincenzo in Modena w. its stamp ("Bibliot C.R.S. Vinc. Mutinae") on title-p. and library ticket on spine.
- Fine. = Nijhoff/ Van Hattum 343.
ADDED: Soeteboom, H. Oud-heden van Zaan-land, Stavoren, Vronen en Waterland (...). Amst., W. Linnig van Koppenol, 1702, rev. ed., 3 parts in 1 vol. (of 2), 32,(4),199; (8),254; (16),176,(18)p., engr. title, 3 divis. titles, 14 plates, contemp. vellum, sm. 8vo.
- Without the 2nd vol.; owner's stamp on upper pastedown; some offsetting from plates. Remnants of ticket on spine.
= Contains Op- en Neder-gank van Stavoren; Vroonens Begin, Midden, en Eynde and De Soet-stemmende Zwaane van Waterland. Nijhoff/ Van Hattum 294; cat. Honig 201.
- Occas. (sl.) foxed. One vol. upper hinge broken, front cover and backstrip loose; all vols. trifle/ sl. worn along extremities.
= With contributions by i.a. N. Beets, W. Bilderdijk, J.M. Dautzenberg, L.J.A. Tollens, J.J.L. ten Kate, A. Winkler Prins, and J. van Lennep.
Holland. Almanak voor 1852-1855. Ed. J. van Lennep. Amst., Gebr. Kraay, 1852-1855, 4 vols., steelengr. plates, orig. (not unif.) gilt and blindst. cl., a.e.g., sm. 8vo. - AND 6 others: MUZEN-ALMANAK (1856 and 1858) and ALMANAK VOOR HET SCHOONE EN GOEDE (1852-1855).
- Each title-p. sl. soiled/ frayed; bindings trifle worn.
= One frontcover w. black stamped lion in the Dutch garden and another w. engraving of the coat of arms of Bloemendaal; 1 vol. with letterpress "De veldwachters van Bloemendaal (...) wenschen U veel heil en zegen in het Nieuwejaar" and another w. "De knecht van de buurt" on backcover. Provenance: the collection A.M. van den Broek.
- Lacks (at least) 2 lvs.; lacks first free endpaper; a few pages sl. stained; upper pastedown torn (partially repaired). Vellum (sl.) stained/ soiled.
= The title-p. states that the author is an Astronomist, and as such, the first part includes information on i.a. the phases of the moon. This copy also includes "Wacht Almanach des Borgerlyken Regiments der Stad Groningen, Voor den Jaare 1784. (...)" and "Bestellinge Der Generaliteits, Provintiale, ende voor yder lidt Particuliere Ambten van de Provintie van Stadt en Lande, voor den Jare 1784. (...)". Rare.
AND 1 other.