80 3255 Maritime history Gietermaker K H 
80 3255 Maritime history Gietermaker K H 
- First blank dam.; lacks engr. title-p.w. portrait and 1 engr. plate; the volvelle plates lack the moving parts; 4 leaves w. closed tear (sl. glue-stained along tear); a few textleaves browned in upper margin; occas. sl. fingersoiled/ foxed/ waterstained; occas. contemp. annots.; new free endpapers. Later calf w. ties.
= Hoogendoorn Gie05-09. Rare edition SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE CXXIV.
BOUND AS USUAL WITH: Idem. De tafelen der Sinuum, Tangentium, en Secantium, Ofte der Hoekmaaten, Raecklynen en Xnylynen (...). Ibid., J. van Keulen, 1697, (2),45,(91).
- Most leaves w. brown stain in lower margin.
AND WITH: Nierop, D. Rembrantsz. Almanach, Na den Nieuwen-stijl, Van Negen Achter-een-volgende Jaren: Dat is, Van het Jaar 1693 tot het Jaar 1700. Gestelt op den Meridiaan deser Landen. Amst., H. Doncker 1693, (30)p., woodcut title vignette.
- Final 4 leaves restored in margins (affecting letters/ words). = Salman p.414.
80 3256 Maritime history Gietermaker K H 
80 3256 Maritime history Gietermaker K H 
- Engravings of the first work printed from worn plates and a (fold.) lower strip of the engr. title sl. creased/ frayed; all works sl. occas. foxing. Spine lacks letterpiece; top of spine sl. dam.; corners showing; covers a few rubbed/ sl. dam. spots.
= Hoogendoorn Gie19.2; Bierens de Haan 1657; this ed. not in cat. NHSM.
80 3257 Maritime history Govertz N 
- Library and cancellation stamp on title.
= Fine copy of a very rare publication on maritime signalling. Warranted by the author. Cat. NHSM II, p.930. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE CXXIV.
80 3258 Maritime history Greenwood J 
80 3258 Maritime history Greenwood J 
- Lacks 10 leaves (title-p., 2 dedic. lvs., 1 ill. leaf and 7 final leaves), all replaced by facs. leaves; 2 leaves w. sm. dam. to blank margin; soiled and (water)stained almost throughout; some offsetting from colours; colours occas. smudged; occas. writing in child's hand on verso of plates. Sold w.a.f.
= Very rare signal book (the first naval signal book to be printed in the English language), containing 122 illustrations showing flag- and cannonsignals and 2 divisional titles "Signalls In a Fogg" as well as "Signalls By Night".
80 3259 Maritime history Heiden F J van der 
80 3259 Maritime history Heiden F J van der 
- Traces of bookplate on upper pastedown; both fold. plates sm. tear and crease at inner margin of fold.
= Landwehr, VOC, 423; Tiele 462; Cat. NHSM I, p.188; Rouffaer/ Muller p.478. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE CXXIV.
80 3260 Maritime history Jonge J C de 
80 3260 Maritime history Jonge J C de 
80 3261 Maritime history Le Comte P 
80 3261 Maritime history Le Comte P 
80 3261 Maritime history Le Comte P 
80 3261 Maritime history Le Comte P 
- Plates only. Plates (sl.) foxed. Wrs. defective.
= Plates present: 10, 12-15, 18, 21-24, 26, 30-34, 36-39, 43, 44, 47 and 48. SIGNED and warranted in pen and ink by the printer of the plates (Desgerrois), text (J.J. Nesser) and publisher (Kaal) on both frontwrappers. The publisher also states: "Aangeboden aan het Gemeente bestuur der Stad Amsterdam door den ondergetekende als uitgever van dit werk ter voldoening aan Art C. van de Wet van 25 Januari 1817". Each plate with the artist's embossed stamp ("PLC/ RMWO") in lower margin. Cat. NHSM p.756.
80 3262 Maritime history Le Comte P 
80 3262 Maritime history Le Comte P 
80 3262 Maritime history Le Comte P 
- Occas. waterst. (incl. some of the plates); first and final blanks sl. mouldy. Joints rubbed/ splitting; cloth over covers eroded.
= Warranted by the author. Cat. NHSM p.757.
80 3263 Maritime history Le Francq van Berkhey P 
- Both works contents sl. (finger)soiled, mostly in margins; owner's stamp on first free endpaper. Covers rubbed/ sl. worn. The 2nd work for the greater part waterstained, mostly in upper part.
= A very rare complete set (the 2nd work with the rare fifth part) with extra plates. All portraits w. accompanying text leaf by FRANQ VAN BERKHEY. And an extra text part describing two of the extra plates (showing a medallion and the drinking horn of Piet Hein) (F.M. 4435).
80/3264 Maritime history Lijste Raeckende den voet ende ordre voortaen te practiseren in 't schaffen op een Schip van Oorloge by de Hooge ende Mogende Heeren Staten Generael der Vereenighde Neder
- Formerly folded (3 times). Fine copy.
= Very rare ordinance dictating the menu for each day for sailors on board war ships.
80 3265 Maritime history Linschoten Jan Huygen van 
- Lacks all plates and maps, except the portrait; old wax seal on engr. title-p. Otherwise fine.
BOUND WITH: Idem. Le grand routier de mer. Ibid., idem, 1638, (4),181,(1)p., engr. title-p. - AND BOUND WITH: Idem. Description de l'Amerique & des parties d'icelle (...). Ibid., idem, 1638, (2),86p., engr. title-p. w. a fine oval view of ships at sea, surrounded by 4 small oval panoramas of "Antwerpen", "Amstelredam", "Middelburch" and "Enchuysen".
- Apart from the lacking maps and plates a fine copy.
80 3266 Maritime history Linschoten Jan Huygen van 
80 3266 Maritime history Linschoten Jan Huygen van 
- Lacks all but one maps and plates (the remaining plate is: "Vera effigies et delineatio Insulae, Ascenscio nuncupatae (...)").; first part htitle, title and portrait creased and frayed; a few leaves torn or damaged. Binding damaged. Sold w.a.f.
= Tiele, Mémoire, p.100; Tiele, Bibl. Land- en Volkenkunde 682; Henze III, 243-244 ("Verfasser des berühmten Itinerario (1596), des bedeutsamsten geographischen Werkes seiner Zeit"). The description of America occupies the greater part of the third part. Rare.
80 3267 Maritime history Linschoten Jan Huygen van 
80 3267 Maritime history Linschoten Jan Huygen van 
- Lacks all maps and plates; lacks first 8p. incl. title and prelim. lvs. to the 3rd part; bookblock loose. Sold w.a.f.
= Tiele, Mémoire, p.100; Tiele, Bibl. Land- en Volkenkunde 682; Henze III, 243-244 ("Verfasser des berühmten Itinerario (1596), des bedeutsamsten geographischen Werkes seiner Zeit").
AND another stripped copy of the same work.
80 3268 Maritime history Martinet J F 
80 3268 Maritime history Martinet J F 
- Partly waterst.; bookplate on upper pastedown. Untrimmed.
= With prize "(...) door Commissarissen over het Vaderlandsche Fonds ter aanmoediging van 's Lands Zeedienst tot een geschenk gegeven aan Jan Erents Schneebeek" (1810). Cat. NHSM II, p.1021: "Een zedekundig handboekje, in hoofdzaak bestaande uit samenspraken tussen een oud en een jong matroos." Printed in the same year as the first edition, with the exact same pagination. Contains chapters such as: "Over de pligten jegens de kapitein", "Over de scheepsondeugden", "Over het gedrag in vreemde landen".
80 3269 Maritime history Medina P de 
80 3269 Maritime history Medina P de 
80 3269 Maritime history Medina P de 
80 3269 Maritime history Medina P de 
- Partly yellowed; partly w. (faint/ marginal) foxing/ waterstains; two of the four volvelles lacking the revolving part, and one volvelle lacking a second movable section; the title-p. to the second part lacking; several leaves at the end of the second part w. closed wormholes in inner margin. Otherwise fine.
= Provenance: the library of Boudewijn Büch, sold in our rooms in 2003-2004. "Een klassiek zeevaardersboek [navigatieboek of 'pilot'] in superieure staat. Pedro de Medina's Arte de navegar... verscheen voor het eerst in het Spaanse Valladolid in 1545. De Nederlandsche vertaling van vijfendertig jaar later is extreem zeldzaam. (...) De Medina (1493-1567) behoort tot de allergrootste zeevaartdeskundigen van de moderne geschiedenis. Michel Coignet (1549-1628) was een Franse maker van astronomische instrumenten en wiskundige. Zijn oorspronkelijke Instruction des points les plus excellent et nécessaires en touchant l'art de naviger - waarvan hier dus een vertaling - kwam in 1581 [sic] van de pers." (Een heel huis vol. Beredeneerde catalogus).
Bibl. Belg. IV, 311; Allen/ Landis 580/45. Crone Library 82 mentions an extra fold. leaf, not incorporated in the printed signatures, with a map of North and South America, not present here (but a facs. of the map is loosely inserted) and not mentioned in the few copies we traced. This Dutch translation not in Sabin, Harrisse, Adams or STC Dutch.
Extremely rare first Dutch edition of the Arte del Navigar (1545) and "the first great book in Dutch on the art of navigation and (...) consequently an enormous stimulus to Dutch seamanship" (Nico Israel, cat. 22, no.75). As far as we know only three different copies were recently sold at auction (Sotheby's 1965, Hartung & Karl 1980 and this copy twice in our own auctions: auction 13, 1990, lot. 2010 (this copy before restoration, in (poor) contemp. limp vellum binding) and auction 41 (Boudewijn Büch sale), 2004, lot 678). On leaf 14r a small circular worldmap encircled by eight cherubic windheads (Shirley 84). This map is repeated in slightly diff. form and in diff. setting on leaf 84v. On this translation etc. see also W.F.J. Mörzer Bruyns, 'Nico Israel, Ernst Crone and Pedro de Medina's "De Zeevaert oft Conste van ter Zee te varen"' (Theatrum orbis librorum. Liber amicorum Nico Israel, p.31-38). SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE CXXIV.
80 3270 Maritime history Montanus A 
80 3270 Maritime history Montanus A 
- Partly waterst. in upper half of the book; cut short along upper margin, sometimes w. loss of running title; hinges weak(ening); w. (contemp.?) annot. in brown ink on verso first free endpaper; some pages a tad browned. Vellum soiled and sl. stained; some damaged spots on front cover; foot of spine (sl.) worn/ chipped.
80 3271 Maritime history Moolen S van de 
80 3271 Maritime history Moolen S van de 
- Fine copy.
= Very rare practical maritime handbook, only 1 copy in NCC and only one copy traced at auction 1970-2022 (sold in our rooms in 2003). Cat. NHSM p.755 and cf. p.749. Not in Crone Library; not in E.O. van Keulen a.o., 'In de Gekroonde Lootsman', Het kaarten-, boekuitgevers en instrumentenmakershuis Van Keulen te Amsterdam 1680-1885. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE CXXV.
80 3272 Maritime history Müller C G D 
- Contemp. illegible owner's entry in pen on first free endpaper; title-p. sl. inkstained; partly sl. yellowed. Top of spine dam.
= The four folding plates at the end are numb. XV-XVIII and come from "Klügels Encyclopädie Th.IV, zweyte Auflage". Plate no.XVII is an original drawing copied from that source. Rare.
80 3273 Maritime history Pietersz C 
80 3273 Maritime history Pietersz C 
= Bierens de Haan 3776; Cat. NHSM, p.70 (3rd ed. 1791). Not in the Crone library. Rare.
80 3274 Maritime history Prior J 
= Cat. NHSM, p.144; Howgego III, P44; not in Tiele. Rare account of the first of James Prior's two voyages. Initially only bound for the Cape of Good Hope, Prior's expedition then proceeded to the Indian Ocean visiting i.a. the Seychelles and wintering on Mauritius. In 1811 Prior joined the British invasion of Java. Very rare.