- Brown stain on portrait of Dirk I. Paper over covers for the larger part worn off.
= Ekama 449; Haitsma Mulier/ Van der Lem 447c.
- Frontisp. reattached; title-p. lacks small portion of lower margin; sl. waterst. (mostly in blank margins); 1 quire loose.
= Ekama 449; Haitsma Mulier/ Van der Lem 447c.
- Bookplate by Van den Broek on upper pastedown; lacks 6 textlvs.; present textlvs. loosely inserted.
= Provenance: the collection A.M. van den Broek.
- With tipped-in annots. by Van den Broek on upper pastedown.
= Very rare. The archive of the city of Haarlem holds a reprint Pro en contra; of vrijmoedige raad aan de inwooners van Nederland (Naarden, 1790). Ekama 641 and 642: "Dit geschrift, door een hevige tegenstander van het Oranjehuis vervaardigd, werd den 23sten Maart 1790 op de Groote Markt te Haarlem door beulshanden verbrand". Provenance: the collection A.M. van den Broek.
- Fine.
= Harlemia illustrata 177-182; Ekama 376; cf. Van der Linde 482. Provenance: the collection A.M. van den Broek, with his annots. tipped onto upper pastedown.
- Lacks title-p, 1 leaf w. text by H. Albertszoon and the engr. portrait; a few lvs. trifle waterst./ frayed in outer blank margins; tipped-in annots. by Van den Broek on verso frontwr.
= Ekama 171. Very rare edition. Provenance: the collection A.M. van den Broek.
Velsen, C. Aanmerkingen over de tegenwoordige staat van de Haerlemmer Meer (...). Leyden, D. Goetval, 1727, 2nd ed., 8,40p., fold. engr. map., contemp. wr.
- With tipped-in annots. by Van den Broek on verso frontwr. Corners wrappers sl. worn.
= Ekama 406; Bierens de Haan 4952.
- First vol. first 3 lvs. repaired tear in outer margin; corners of all lvs. sl. rounded.
= On the first work: Hoogendoorn, p.578, 11; Nijhoff/ Van Hattum 182; cf. Bierens de Haan 2696.
- Bookplate on upper pastedown; title lacks portions of blank margins and doubled; outer margin of portrait and fold. map strengthened. Sold w.a.f.
= Hoogendoorn, p.578, 14.1; Nijhoff/Van Hattum 185; cf. Bierens de Haan 2696.
- Poor copy, waterstained; title-p. reattached; occas. sm. wormholes in margin; bookplate on upper pastedown. Sold w.a.f.
= Cf. Bibl. Belg. H187; Pijper, Martelaarsboeken p.52.
- Trifle foxed; fold. plate w. sm. tear. Vellum sl. stained.
- Owner's entry in blank margin of engr. title; upper hinge weak; occas. trifle fingersoiled. Joints worn; upper joint starting at top of spine.
= Rare.
- Lacks the portrait (as often); yellowed; foxed/ wormholed at lower inner margin at the beginning. Joints and spine-ends worn.
= Wing H809. Rare utopian work by political theorist James Harrington. Although initially censored by Oliver Cromwell, it was eventually published with a dedication to the same.
- A near fine copy with the following minor condition points: contemp. German owner's entry on first blank of vol.1 (dated 1758); the New Map of Georgia (...) trifle foxed; the map of the North Pole cut sl. short in upper margin (affecting the righthand part of the upper borderline and the page number); the map of the Whole Russian Empire cut trifle short (affecting the outer right borderline); several textpages have a tiny hole (size of 1 letter or less). Top of spines and joints professionally restored; covers w. some old scratches/ rubbed spots.
= Complete copy, with the maps and plates as listed at the end of vol.2. Provenance: Lord Eliock (bookplate on both upper pastedowns). Lavishly illustrated work w. fine plates and 22 detailed (mainly fold./ double-p.) large maps and charts, mostly by E. Bowen, with the various routes of the expeditions indicated, incl. the following: A New and Accurate Map of the World Drawn from the best Authorities (...); A Complete Map of the Southern Continent Survey'd by Capt. Abel Tasman; A New & Accurate Chart of the Western or Atlantic Ocean (...); A Correct Draught of the North Pole and of all the Countries hitherto Discovered, intercepted between the Pole and the Parallel of 50 Degrees; A New Map of Georgia with Part of Carolina, Florida and Louisiana and A New and Accurate Map of China, Drawn from Surveys made by the Jesuit Missionaries. Landwehr, VOC 261; Sabin 30483; Hill 775 and Cox I, p.10. Both vols. w. tipped-in identical letterpress "Catalogue of Books" advertising a.o. the present work; vol.1 w. a loosely inserted separately issued publication on "An act for giving a publick Reward to such Persons or Person, His Majesty's Subject or Subjects, as shall discover a North West Passage through the Hudson's Streights, to the Western and Southern Ocean of America" (London, Thomas Baskett, 1745, (6)p. (numb.(2),483-486)). SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE CXIII.
- Small stamp on title; 19th cent. owner's entry on first free endpaper. Upper joint splitting.
BOUND WITH: 7 others by the same, all publ. by M. Cnobbaert, 1666-1672: Eerste Vervolgh vande Redelycke Handelinghe (1672); Dordrechtshen Predikant nu Sieck-Meester ende Ziel-Trooster gheworden over eenen armen sieken Uyl die in Doots Noodt light (1671); Sots-Caproen met verscheyden Bellen Behanghen ende gheschoncken voor een nieuw iaer aen Arent Montanus Gheuschen Woorden-dienaer tot Schoonhoven (1668); Versoeninghe vande Menschen met Godt door het H. Sacrificie der Misse (1671); Disput van Martinus Lutherus met den Duyvel Over het H. Sacrificie der Misse (1666) and Triomph-Boogh ter eere Van 't Alderheylighste-Sacrament van Mirakel te Brussel opgherecht Teghen de lasteringhen ende tot Schaemte vande Sectarisen (1671).
- Waterst. in upper outer corner; occas. trifle foxed; owner's entry on first free endpaper.
= Springer/ Klassen 8595. Abraham Heems was a Mennonite silk merchant.
- Lacks both portraits; sl. browned/ foxed (mostly in blank margins); a few owner's annots.
- Sl. waterstained in upper (blank) margin; occas. (sl.) foxed/ browned. Top of spine dam.
= With 2 extra plates from Oudheden en gestichten van het rechte Zuid-Holland en van Schieland. Van Doorninck/ De Kempenaer, p.249; Haitsma Mulier/ Van der Lem 222.
Idem. Oudheden en gestichten van het rechte Zuid-Holland en van Schieland (...). Dutch transl. H.V.R. (= H. van Rijn). Leyden, C. Vermey, 1719, (20),547,(17)p., contemp. (unif. w. the preceding) vellum.
- Without the plates (bound with in the preceding work). Owner's stamp on title-p.
= Van Doorninck/ De Kempenaer, p.249; Haitsma Mulier/ Van der Lem 222.
= A fine copy of this rich visual source of the immense prosperity of the Dutch colonial empire in the middle of the 18th cent. The views show their main cities, their houses and settlements in the Dutch East Indies, India, Sri Lanka, Japan and South Africa. Interestingly, the perspective of the views of the towns and houses is carefully indicated on the views in the captions (stating for instance the "Ein Prospect aus S. Hoch Edelheit des Hn General Gouverneurs Spiel-haus in Batavia, nach der so genanten Ancker-werff u. den Blaue Berge zu, gezeichnet"). The architect and draughtsman Johann Willhelm Heydt was born in Amboina in 1702, where his father was the Opperhoofd of the Island Haroekoe. "A masterpiece of German engraving of the highest significance for the study of the topography of Batavia and its environs" (Bastin/ Brommer p.1). "(..). an extensive and highly important document with regard to the early town planning and general topography of Jakarta in the first half of the 18th century." (Haks/ Maris, p.120f). Landwehr, VOC 469; Cat. NHSM I, p.241; Mendelssohn I, p.270. Rare. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE CXIV.
- Sl. yellowed and foxed throughout; tear (±7cm.) in title to the 2nd part; "Asiae descriptio" cut short in upper margin w. some loss of the image; engr. heraldic bookplate on upper pastedown.
= Sabin 31655. On the map "Americae nova descriptio": Tooley, The mapping of America, p.115 no.12; Burden 379. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE CXIII.