= Symmetrical composition with trees, flowers, people, butterflies, a temple and a bridge.
- Both (sl.) yellowed/ browned; w. (fold?)line running down the middle; doubled w. Japanese.
- Both browned and faded; both (partially) mounted on board.
- Very fine.
= From the series Shinsen Taiko Ki (New Biography of Toyotomi Hideyoshi). Rare.
- Contents occas. sl. fingersoiled, but otherwise a good copy. Wrs. creased and (sl.) worn; lacks lower part of hashira-title.
= A series of woodcut illustrations showing Japanese people in everyday situations. People are shown at work or at leisure, for example having a nap, selling their wares or making merry.
- Re-backed w. Japanese text leaf; trifle soiled, w. a stain on the title cartouche.
= The right panel of a tryptich.
= Probably a later edition, ±1920.
- Laid down on mount.
= Perhaps an unused hanshita-e or a prelimimary design. With the collector's mark of Berend Modderman (1870-1944) (not in Lugt) on verso mount.
- Outer margins laid down under passepartout.
- Rotterdam and Amsterdam plates sl. foxed/ fingersoiled. Otherwise very fine.
= Cat. NHSM p. 319, Tiele 3. The second edition, enlarged with views of Batavia and Onrust. The first edition (without text) was published in 1802. Comprises i.a. views of the sea-harbours of i.a. Amsterdam (2x), Rotterdam (2x), Texel, Edam, Middelburg and Hoorn and plates depicting whaling and herring fishery. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XLVII.
- Three vertical folds.
= "(...) waar op afgetekend zyn de meest Uitgeveende en wederom met Bagger volgeloopen sudzige en driftige Rietlanden tusschen het Oost Einder Dykie of Voet Pad [presently the Oosteinderweg] en het Groote Haerlemmer of Leidsche Meer". Issued with the resolution of 19 July 1774 (not present). Van den Brink 135; Koeman, Handleiding 38. Provenance: the collection A.M. van den Broek.
- A few closed tears in blank margins; otherwise fine.
= Guicciardini Illustratus 1.2: numb. "50" in lower right corner.
- Folds (as publ.); a few tiny holes in lower right blank margin; sl. yellowed/ age-toned.
= Guicciardini Illustratus 1.2.
= From J. WAGENAAR, 't Verheugd Amsterdam (1768). Landwehr, Splendid ceremonies 256; Atlas van Stolk V, 4183; F.M. 4210.
"Afbeelding vande twee Blokhuizen op den Amstel voor Amsterdam, gebouwt in het jaar 1650." Engraving by B. PICART after P. NOLPE, 25,5x34 cm., w. engr. caption below. - AND 8 other engravings, i.a. of Maria de Medici visiting the Oudezijds Voorburgwal (by S. SAVERIJ, from C. BARLAEUS, Maria de Medicis, 1638/ 1639) and "Op de inwyding van den Nieuwen Schouwburg te Amsterdam, den vyftienden september" (by N. VAN DER MEER, from Historie van den nieuwen Amsterdamschen schouwburg, 1775).
- Formerly folded; duststains and soiled in outer margins and a brownish stain near upper right corner of image.
= Scarce. F.M. 4463-a.
- Sl. browned/ foxed.
= "Aankomst van Hunne Doorluchtige en Koningklyke Hoogheden (...) Aan de Haarlemmer Poort der Stad Amsteldam"; "Aankomst (...) aan het Stadhuis der Stad Amsteldam"; "Afbeelding van den Grooten Maaltyd, gegeven door de Ed: Achtb: Regeering der Stad Amsteldam (...) in Schepens-kamer"; "Zittingneming van Zyne Doorl. Hoogheid (...) in het Edel-Mogende Col. ter Admiraliteit te Amsteldam". Landwehr, Splendid ceremonies 256; Atlas Van Stolk V, 4183; F.M. 4210a (1, 2, 4 and 9).
Meer Jr., Noach van der (1741-1822). "De raadkamer op het stadhuis te Amsteldam (...)/ La chambre de conseil à lhotel de ville dAmsteldam (...)." Engraving after WILLEM KOK, 46,5x36,5 cm., title in Dutch and French caption below the image, Amst., J. de Jongh, ±1790.
- Sl. browned.
ADDED: Tanjé, Pieter (1706-1761). "Willem Carel Hendrik Friso." Engraving after GERARD SANDERS, 36x22,8 cm., "Societ. Bibliopol. Rotterod. Excudit", 1750.
- Sl. browned.
- Sl. dustsoiled, mostly in margins. = Proof before letters. F.M. 5134-a.
- Print w. flattened horizontal fold en a few miniscule holes. Text part w. waterstain below the printer's/ publisher's address.
= Our copy with a mansucript annotation in lower margin print "Fritzius fec" in pen and ink. Very nice and rare print, showing the menagerie at the inn of Jan Berentsz. Westerhof, a.k.a. "Blaauw Jan", at the Cloveniersburgwal in Amsterdam. At this popular small zoo, that existed between 1675 or 1695 and 1784, various kinds of (wild) animals, and human beings, were exhibited, such as the dwarf Wybrant Lolkes, "niet hooger dan 29 Duim", and the giant Cajanus, who was "8 Amsterdamsche voeten en 9 duim hoog". SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XLVII.