- Upper pastedowns detached; portionof first free endpaper of first vol. cut off; otherwise contents w. minor imperfections; plates are strong dark impressions. Ties damaged; vellum sl. soiled. A (very) fine copy.
= The first edition of the best 17th cent. description of Amsterdam, based on the works by the predecessors Dapper and Van Domselaar and on materials furnished by the author's father Isaac Commelin. The author (1636-1693) had free access to the archives of the city and therefore his work contains much more reliable sources and official documents than the works by Dapper and Van Domselaar. Nijhoff/ Van Hattum 66/ 67. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXXXIV.
- Partly sl. wormholed (sl. affecting 6 plates); occas. sl. waterst./ soiled in (blank) margin (sl. affecting frontisp.); some plates and textlvs. repaired w. paper tape on verso. Otherwise a good copy.
= The first edition of the best 17th cent. description of Amsterdam, based on the works by the predecessors Dapper and Van Domselaar and on materials furnished by the author's father Isaac Commelin. The author (1636-1693) had free access to the archives of the city and therefore his work contains much more reliable sources and official documents than the works by Dapper and Van Domselaar. Nijhoff/ Van Hattum 66/ 67; Haitsma Mulier/ Van der Lem 116.
- With an extra plate by J. LUIKEN (w. unobtrusive large repaired tear). A few lvs. w. a sm. tear in lower blank margin. Otherwise a fine copy.
= Nijhoff/ Van Hattum 68. The second edition (first 1693-94) of the best 17th cent. description of Amsterdam, based on the works by the predecessors Dapper and Van Domselaar and on materials furnished by the author's father Isaac Commelin. The author (1636-1693) had free access to the archives of the city and therefore his work contains much more reliable sources and official documents than the works by Dapper and Van Domselaar.
- Fine and clean copy despite the following (minor) defects: outer edge of engr. frontisp. strengthened w. Japanese; upper joint starting.
= Nijhoff/ Van Hattum 75.
- Modern annot. in ballpoint on htitle.
- Lacks frontisp. and 2 plates. Plan and 3 fold. plates with (sm.) dam./ repaired spots; 1 plate loose; sl. soiled throughout; bookplate on upper pastedown. Backstrip sl. worn.
= Bodel/ Nijenhuis 1455; Nijhoff/ Van Hattum 95 calls for 10 plates.
AND an incomplete copy of (T. VAN DOMSELAER), Beschryvinge van Amsterdam, Haar eerste oorspronk uyt den Huyze der Heeren van Aemstel en Aemstellant (ibid., idem, 1665, engr. frontisp., 2 (of 7) double-p. plates, num. textills., 19th-cent. hleather, 4to. Lacks the plan, 5 plates and several indexp. Defective copy, sold w.a.f.).
- First 4 lvs. outer margin strengthened w. paper and (glue)stained; lacks upper pastedown; hinges weak (upper hinge strengthened w. tape).
= Rare early edition, published in the same year as the first (Amst., M.W. Doornik, 1662). Bodel/ Nijenhuis 1455; Nijhoff/ Van Hattum 95 note.
- Five plates browned/ yellowed; plates partly sl. stained in blank margins; textpages partly dam./ frayed; some plates and textpages loose(ning). Bindings rubbed/ sl. worn along extremities.
= Nijhoff/ Van Hattum 11. "De Atlas van Fouquet is ongetwijfeld de fraaiste serie afbeeldingen die van Amsterdam bestaan. In afwijking van de vroeger verschenen series staat bij Fouquet het afbeelden van de schilderachtigste punten van de stad op den voorgrond. Hoewel zijn prenten bijna alle op de traditioneele wijze genoemd zijn naar de torens, de poorten, de kerken en de andere groote gebouwen die er op zijn voorgesteld, zijn zij echter zoo op te vatten, dat zij het stadsgedeelte weergeven, dat het genoemde gebouw omgeeft. Op die wijze verschaft de Atlas van Fouquet een wandeling door de straten en langs de grachten van het Amsterdam der XVIIIe eeuw, het Amsterdam dat nog in ongerept bezit was van haar monumentale gebouwen en huizen, en den stratenaanleg uit het bloeitijdperk; hierbij werd ook in het oog gehouden het zoo pittoreske straatbeeld dier dagen weer te geven." (Cat. Oud-Amsterdam, F. Muller, 1912).
- Apart from the following minor defects, a very fine copy with the plates in strong impressions: the handcol. plate cut shorter (possibly from another copy?). Both vols. spines restored.
= Nijhoff/ Van Hattum 11. "De Atlas van Fouquet is ongetwijfeld de fraaiste serie afbeeldingen die van Amsterdam bestaan. In afwijking van de vroeger verschenen series staat bij Fouquet het afbeelden van de schilderachtigste punten van de stad op den voorgrond. Hoewel zijn prenten bijna alle op de traditioneele wijze genoemd zijn naar de torens, de poorten, de kerken en de andere groote gebouwen die er op zijn voorgesteld, zijn zij echter zoo op te vatten, dat zij het stadsgedeelte weergeven, dat het genoemde gebouw omgeeft. Op die wijze verschaft de Atlas van Fouquet een wandeling door de straten en langs de grachten van het Amsterdam der XVIIIe eeuw, het Amsterdam dat nog in ongerept bezit was van haar monumentale gebouwen en huizen, en den stratenaanleg uit het bloeitijdperk; hierbij werd ook in het oog gehouden het zoo pittoreske straatbeeld dier dagen weer te geven." (Cat. Oud-Amsterdam, F. Muller, 1912). SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXXXVI.
- Frontisp. reattached to later endpapers; title-p. nearly loose; some plates and pages w. annots. in blank margin; sm. burnt spot in upper right corner of endpapers and in a few lvs. at end in blank margin.
= Nijhoff/ Van Hattum 107. First published in 1736.
- Two fold. plates strengthened on fold. A fine copy. = Rare edition. Nijhoff/ Van Hattum 119.
- Lacks 1 plate. One plate sl. waterst. Spine-ends dam.; extremities sl. worn. = Nijhoff/ Van Hattum 120.
- Map cut sl. short in margins; title-p. w. tear; first and final lvs. sl. stained in lower blank margin; occas. sl. foxed/ yellowed; owner's stamp on upper pastedown. Lacks ties. Good copy in a fine vellum binding. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE CVIII.
- Without vol. 2 and 3, but with all the plates in fine condition. Hinges broken (but holding on cords); 1 textleaf loose; occas. sl. foxed/ yellowed/ browned. Binding worn (roan almost entirely worn off).
WITH: Vervolg van de handvesten (...)/ Tweede vervolg van de handvesten (...) der stad Amsterdam: voortgezet tot in het Jaar 1777. Amst., Wed. S. Schouten en Zoon/ P. Schouten, 1755/ 1778, 2 vols., (4),151,(8); (46),280,(40)p., 2 ident. engr. title-vign., bound unif. w. the preceding.
- Bindings worn; contents fine.
- Plates yellowed; chip in right margin title-p.
= F.M. 2301. The first rare edition of this fire fighting classic, introducing the hose-pump. The spectacular plates show the artistic talents of Van der Heide Senior, who was not only a wellknown painter, but also a gifted inventor. The book describes and illustrates several fires in Amsterdam during 1652-1684, and the implements used before and after the introduction of the author's new hose-pump. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXXXVI.
- Sm. repairs on verso; margins caption partly trimmed.
= Rare. On the disturbances and plunderings in Amsterdam as part of the so-called tenants revolt (Pachtersoproer) of 1748. These uprisings started in Groningen, then Friesland and were transferred to Amsterdam. They were mostly directed against the high taxes and subsequent prices, but also against the existence of venal offices. One of the precursors of the Batavian revolution. Hanging from the windows of the Waag are the bodies of Piet van Dort and Marretje Arents. F.M. 3938a.
- Page numbering occas. erratic, but complete; soiled/ waterstained in upper margin; bookplates (i.a. of R. Cordes) on upper pastedown.
= BMN I, p.38: "Het 1e dl. bevat 35, het 2e dl. 9 twist- en spotschriften over de in 1731 afgezette overlieden van het chirurgijns-gilde te Amsterdam." Rare. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXXXVII.
- Closed tear in fold. view; sl. yellowed. Rebound in sl. oversized vellum binding. = D'Ailly 63.
- Occas. sl. dampstained in blank margin. Vellum sl. warped. = Rare.
- Receding waterstains in (blank) margins. Spine-ends restored (top lacks portion); covers sl. rubbed/ stained.
= Bound by A. van Rossum, hof-boekbinder (ticket on upper pastedown). Spoelder 10.