- Two annots. on pastedowns. A fine copy. = Dekkers p.147 (2nd ed. 1656 only).
- Sm. libr. stamp on dedic. leaf; outer blank edge sl. stained throughout.
= Hollstein 1098-1197. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXXXVII.
- - Vol. 2 lacks as usual p.181-182; one plate loose; vol. 2 occas. sl. yellowed/ agetoned. Bindings sl. worn; corners showing (vol. 2 sl. worse).
= LARGE PAPER and EXTRA ILLUSTRATED copy w. 30 additional plates. As often without the fourth volume published 21 years after the third volume. Nijhoff/ Van Hattum 311.
- Vol. 2 lacks as usual p.181-182; partly textlvs. (sl.) browned/ foxed, especially in the first vol. 't Verheugd Amsterdam without the plates, text only. Boards rubbed.
= Large paper copy. Ad.1: Nijhoff/ Van Hattum 311. As often without the fourth volume published 21 years after the third volume.
- Vol. 2 lacks as usual p.181-182. Occas. sl. foxed; 1 plate loose. Bindings sl. worn/ rubbed. A good/ fine set.
= Nijhoff/ Van Hattum 311. As often without the fourth volume published 21 years after the third volume.
- Vol. 2 lacks as usual p.181-182. All vols. (sl.) foxed throughout (incl. plates); 1 frontisp. w. vertical fold; a few plates/ (text)lvs. waterst./ dam.; 1 plate w. closed marginal tears. Vol.3 volume-piece dam.
= Nijhoff/ Van Hattum 311. As often without the fourth volume published 21 years after the third volume.
- Lacks 42 plates. Vol. 2 lacks as usual p.181-182. Bindings worn/ rubbed; paper over covers chafed; top of spines chipped. Sold w.a.f.
= Nijhoff/ Van Hattum 311. As often without the fourth volume published 21 years after the third volume.
- Endpapers w. bookplate and owner's entries; occas. sl. (water)stained/ soiled. Binding sl. worn; spine-ends chipped.
= With (Dutch and French) prize to P.J. Duijskens (Amst., 1810).
- Lvs. (sl.) fingersoiled; two plates w. sm. tear.
= Bodel Nijenhuis 1467; Haitsma Mulier/ Van der Lem 516 ("wordt vaak toegeschreven aan de drukker van het werk"). Basically a very early city guide.
- Without the portrait, as often; lacks 2 fold. plates; 1 fold. view w. large tear, nevertheless a good copy. Binding (sl.) worn; lacks letterpiece.
= Large paper copy. Nijhoff/ Van Hattum 332.
Idem. Amstellandsche Arkadia. Amst., A. van Huyssteen, 1737, 1st ed., 2 vols., (16),400; (2),327,(9)p., engr. frontisp., 2 identical title-vignettes, 8 (of 12) fold. views by J.C. PHILIPS and J. PUNT after C. PRONK and A. DE HAEN, 1 fold. table, both bound unif. with the above.
- Second work lacks 4 plates. Bindings (sl.) worn; letterpieces dam./ lacking.
= Large paper copy. Nijhoff/ Van Hattum 335.
- Lacks the portrait (as often) and 1 fold. leaf.
= Nijhoff/ Van Hattum 332. Provenance: the collection A.M. van den Broek, with his bookplate on upper pastedown.
- Two bookplates on upper pastedown (i.a. from the collection of F.C. Koch). Upper joint starting. A good/ fine copy.
= Tiele 39 (ed. 1750); Sabin 1407; Lauridsen II, 48; Cat. NHSM p.301 (German ed. only); Ingalls 446: "First published in 1746, Anderson's detailed account of the arctic regions was immediately accepted and highly regarded". The second enlarged edition of the Dutch translation (first ed. 1750). Contains i.a. an account of whaling and a Danish-Dutch-Greenlandish vocabulary and grammar. The description of Davis Street makes this book also an important Americanum.
- New endpapers; first quire reinforced along inner margin; occas. sl. foxed; final ±30p. lower outer corner waterstained.
= Sabin 1629; Cox I, p.49; Borba de Moraes I, p.38: "This is a classic account of circumnavigation which has been published in countless editions in French and other languages (...). The first edition, of 1748, is the one most sought after". SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXXXVIII.
- Plates sl. waterst.; hinges weak (some lvs. loosening). = Tiele 559; Cat. NHSM I, p.308.
Muller, S. De reizen der Nederlanders naar de Noordpool. Haarlem, Kruseman and T. Willink, 1877, 24p., 6 woodcut plates, contemp. wr.
- Contents fine; wrappers frayed; covers loosening (strengthened w. paper tape).
- Fine copy. = Cf. Scheurleer, Ned. liedboeken p.107.
- Lacks the fold. plate; occas. sl. foxed; a few scattered stains. Vellum sl. soiled.
= Landwehr, R.d.H. as book illustrator 9.
Vos, J. Alle de Gedichten. Amst., J. Lescaille, 1662/ 1671, 1st ed., 2 parts in 1 vol., (14),844; (24),244p., woodcut printer's mark, engr. coat of arms, contemp. gilt hcalf w. red mor. letterpiece.
- Lacks the portrait; later annot. in pen on verso first blank; bookplate and owner's entry on upper endpaper and first blank. Binding worn.
= First edition of the collected poetry, containing occasional poetry, plays, epigrams, and laudatory poems.
AND an incomplete copy of C. HUYGENS, Koren-bloemen, Nederlandsche Gedichten (...) in XIX Boecken (The Hague, 1658, 1st ed., engr. frontisp., portrait by C. DE VISSCHER after C. HUYGENS, contemp. vellum, 4to. Lacks the plan of Hofwijck; backstrip dam.).
- The lot sold w.a.f.
- One plate w. sm. tear at inner margin of image. Frontcover and first 4 lvs. sl. wormholed in lower inner corner; backcover trifle rubbed.
= Tiele 795; Howgego N24; cf. Graesse IV, 674; Cox I, 237; Aboussouan 682-683 and Lipperheide Lc6. Carsten Niebuhr (1733-1815) travelled extensively in Arabia, Persia, Palestine and Asia Minor. By his descriptions and maps and the richness of his observations the pioneer of a more profound knowledge of the Orient. Henze III, p.610: "Als erste literarische Hauptfrucht der langen Reise veröffentlichte er in 1772 die Beschreibung von Arabien, ein Werk klassischen Gepräges, das mehr Stoff darbrachte als alle früheren europäischen Werke zusammengenommen; hinzu kam, daß es großenteils auf Autopsie basierte. N. hielt sich fern von jeder Kompilation nach anderen Autoren und trug nur vor, was er selbst beobachtet und gesammelt hatte". "His accounts are probably the best and most authentic of their day" (Cox). On Niebuhr see also Europa und die Orient, cat. 1/190.
- Trifle foxed. Vellum stained. = Cf. Bierens de Haan 511/ 512 and Fowler 54 (other eds.).
- Lacks first free endpaper, engr. title and 2 fold. tables; title-p. trifle dam. in upper left corner; small hole in 1 textleaf and in upper blank margin of one plate; occas. cut sl. short in outer margin (affecting caption).
= Very rare. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXXXVIII.
- Sl. yellowed. Binding rubbed along extremities.