- First four leaves w. closed tear in inner margin; second half sl. waterstained and fingersoiled in outer margin.
= Interesting booklet, on the prophecies of the Emperors Severus and Leo concerning the imminent demise of the Ottoman empire. The 16 engravings show i.a. (mythical) animals, angels as well as more symbolic images, and is accompanied by one to four epigrammata and a more lengthy explanation of these epigramatta. Knuttel 3725; Cf. Waller 1389 (1st ed., Amst., 1627). Not in the emblemata reference works.
- Very fine copy. = Provenance: Bob Luza. Tiele 921; Scheepers I, 656. Rare.
- Without vol. 2; a few quires yellowed/ browned; partly foxed; plates not affected.
- Occas. (sl.) foxed/ yellowed; final ±55 leaves at the end of vol.2 w. receding stain from glue used by binder to attach calf turn-ins to backcover. Otherwise a fine copy.
= Contains attractive folding profiles of Amersfoort, Montfoort, Utrecht, Rhenen and surroundings and Wijk bij Duurstede.
AND 1 other from the series: TEGENWOORDIGE STAAT DER VEREENIGDE NEDERLANDEN. Eerste Deel. Vervattende eene algemeene beschryving des lands, der Zeden en Godsdienst (...) (Amst., 1739, 2nd ed., 7 (of 8) (fold.) plates, contemp. gilt hcalf. Lacks the map; sl. foxed).
- A few prints (sl.) foxed in blank margins; the view of Montfoort has a sm. ruststain in the sky area; title-p. and the view of Wyck by Duerstede have an extended blank outer margin. Otherwise all views fine.
= All but 8 of the views have the name of Casper Specht engraved in lower margin. Very rare complete series, of which the first edition, printed in 1698, consisted of 32 prints, each w. a banderole in the top margin identifying the house; a second edition was published by I. Ottens around 1700, and contained another 11 prints (partly also with a banderole above the house). Our copy was the third and most extensive edition w. 40 plates (incl. the title-p.). The only etching listed in Hollstein as etched by Specht is the one that show the house Plettenburg at Jutphaes. See Hollstein, Specht 1, 1st state (of 2). The collector's(?) mark on the frontcover of the album not traced in Lugt.
- Engr. title sm. tear/ creases into blank margin; occas. a few foxed spots. Vellum sl. fingersoiled along margins. An unusually fine copy.
= Provenance: "Hk Meijer 1769" (owner's entry on verso first free endpaper). "(...) M.b.t. de reconstructie van de drukgeschiedenis van de Belacchende Werelt komt men tot enkele belangrijke vaststellingen. Kennelijk werden er tijdens het drukproces van de bundel herhaaldelijk wijzigingen in het zetsel aangebracht: het totale aantal getraceerde varianten is zowel in kwantitatief als kwalitatief opzicht aanzienlijk (...)" (see website of the DBNL on A. van de Venne's Tafereel van de belacchende Wereld). Very fine engravings, i.a. depicting a quacksalver; the engraved title shows a lively scene at the fair at The Hague. One of the finest and most curious (and humorous) Dutch 17th cent. illustrated books. Hollstein, De Jode I, 119; Hollstein, Vande Venne 438-445; Franken II, p.98; Scheepers II, 283; Arents 284 (conversation on pipe-smoking).
- Engr. title-p. sl. fingersoiled; one plate doubled. Lower hinge almost split. Otherwise fine.
= Hollstein IX,159; Lipperheide Oc 11 (Latin ed. 1725); Van Someren I,169c. Contains portraits of i.a. Erasmus, Luther, Melanchthon, Jonas, Cruciger, Zwingli, Calvin and Beza.
- Occas. sl. stained; most leaves fingersoiled in blank margin(s); final 60 lvs. inkstain in outer blank margin; later endpapers. Otherwise a good copy.
= Landwehr, VOC 283; Cat. NHSM I,174; Tiele 990. The first edition, with the fine plates after Schouten himself: "Ze zijn door S. in Indië geteekend en hebben meer locale waarde dan de meeste illustraties van reisjournalen in dezen tijd." (Tiele). One of the finest old sources on the Dutch East Indies.
- Lacks 2 vols. (Vol. I and IX of the vols. containing poetry). Bookplate on upper pastedowns; all vols. w. ex-library stamp from Hageveld. Binding rubbed along extremities.
= I-II.(Tragedies) (mostly Amst., A.de Wees/ Widow A. de Wees ("putjesdrukken"), 1636-1668, 31 parts in 2 vols.), contains i.a. Maria Stuart of gemartelde majesteit (Cologne, 1646), Palamedes (Amst., 1652), Zungchin (ibid., 1667) and Pascha (ibid., 1636). Also including Tooneelschilt of Pleitrede voor het toonneelrecht (Amst., Wed. A. de Wees, 1661. Schuytvlot 400; Unger 636a);
II. (Poëzy of verscheide gedichten) ((Franeker, L. Strik, 1682), 2nd vol. only. Schuytvlot 11; Unger 8);
III. Vorstelijcke Warande der dieren (...) (Amst., widow G. de Groot, n.d. (±1730?), 125 engr. emblematical ills. Landwehr 894; Schuytvlot 57; Unger 89);
IV. Bespiegelingen van Godt en Godtsdienst (...) (Rott., B. Bos, 1700, engr. title-p. by J. MULDER after J. GOEREE, engr. portrait of the author. Schuytvlot 86; Unger 645); Joannes de boetgezant (Amst., widow G. de Groot, 1696. Schuytvlot 89; Unger 648); De Vaderen, ofte (...) Abrahams Offerande (Leyden, J. vander Dyster, 1722. Schuytvlot 771; Unger 82) and De Heerlyckheit der Kercke Haer Ingang, Opgang, en Voortgang (Cologne, "Ter oude Druckerye", 1663. Schuytvlot 95; Unger 662);
V. Altaergeheimenissen (Keulen, "In de Nieuwe Druckerye", 1645, engr. title by T. MATHAM after C. GALLE, title-vign. Schuytvlot 71; Unger 411); Brieven Der Heilige Maeghden, Martelaressen (Amst., A. de Wees, 1642, engr. title-vign., 12 circular engr. portraits of female saints); De helden godes des ouwden verbonds (...). Midsgaders: een hymnus of Lofzang van de Christelijcke Ridder, de Heerlijckheyd van Salomon, en Hierusalem verwoest (ibid., D. Pietersz., 1st ed., 3 title-pages w. ident. woodcut vignette, 38 full-p. engr. ills. by J. SADELER after C. VAN DEN BROECK. Schuytvlot 59; Unger 99, 98 and 91); De Vernieuwde Gulden Winckel der kunstlievende Nederlanders (ibid., idem, 1622, woodcut title-vignette, 73 engr. half-p. emblematic textills. by G. DE JODE after C. VAN DEN BROECK. Landwehr 877; Schuytvlot 46; Unger 72);
VI. Publius Ovidius Nazoos Herscheppinge (Amst., widow of A. de Wees, 1671, engr. title by BLOTEL(INGH) after P.(HILIPS) K.(ONING), coat of arms of Diederik Buysero, 15 half-p. ills. Schuytvlot 803; Unger 713);
VII. Publius Virgilius Maroos wercken (Amst., A. de Wees, 1646, engr. title by T. MATHAM. Schuytvlot 786; Unger 421);
VIII. Publius Virgilius Maroos wercken in Nederduitsch dicht vertaelt door J. v. Vondel (Amst., A. de Wees, 1660, engr. title by T. MATHAM, heraldic headpiece. Schuytvlot 801; Unger 612);
X. Koning Davids harpzangen (Amst., Erven wed. G. de Groot, 1723. Schuytvlot 83; Unger 572); Bespiegelingen van Godt en Godtsdienst (...) (Amst., Wed. B. Visscher, 1723, portrait. Schuytvlot 87; Unger 646).
- Heraldic bookplate on upper pastedown and contemp. owner's entry on first free endpaper. Upper joint starting.
= Ad 1. Buijnsters, BNK 1189; Ki.la.ki.le. 6; Van Veen sale, part 2, no.47; De hele Bibelebontse berg p.225; Knuttel 21859. A rare pro House of Orange abecedarium, counterpart of the patriotic "Vaderlandsch A.B.-Boek voor de Nederlandsche Jeugd" by Swildens. "Het lijkt niet waarschijnlijk dat deze politieke satire ooit als kinderboek heeft gediend" (Buijnsters).
- Manuscript owner's entry of A. Stam, S. Ord. Praedicator, 1684 on fly-leaves and many carefully written annots. and corrections in Dutch and Latin in the same hand in the margins throughout, often quite critical and condemning. Occas. sl. browned. Very nice set.
= Rare complete set. Sabin 19854; Tiele 260; Cat. NHSM p.240; Muller 1565: "Contains a vast amount of most interesting particulars, historical, geographical, linguistic etc. on the manners and customs, on the private life etc., the whole illustrated by (...) curious plates." Much enlarged adaptation of Erasmus Franciscus, Neu polirter Geschichts- Kunst- u. Sitten-Spiegel ausländischer Völker, als: Sineser, Japaner, Indostaner, Abyssinier (Nürnberg, 1670) and Idem, Guinesischer u. Americanischer Blumenbusch (Nürnberg, 1669). For the remarkable plates by Romeyn de Hooghe, Landwehr, R. de H. as bookill. 58: "The illustrations by R. de H. belong to the most interesting of his oeuvre."
- Binding sl. duststained. Otherwise very fine copy.
= From the library of A. Pitlo. Rarely found complete with the fold. plate showing De Wilde's library.
- Occas. sl. waterstained; contemp. owner's entry on upper and lower pastedown.
= Cat. J. Honig 200; Buisman 2131; De Vries 39.
- Vol. 2 covers sl. rubbed. Otherwise a very fine and clean copy.
AND 1 other: Z. PASPOORT, Beschrijving van Zeeland (...) vervolgd (Middelb., 1820, contemp. boards. Sl. foxed; lacks frontcover).
- Old catalogue clipping mounted on upper pastedown. Upper joint split; paper over boards sl. rubbed.
= Buisman 1922; Knuttel, Verboden boeken 343: "Volgens de notulen van het Haagsche boekverkoopersgilde is dit boek 9 Nov. 1789 in den Haag verboden. Waarschijnlijk als obsceen boek en omdat in deze reisbeschrijving eenige tirades tegen Oranje gevonden worden. Oldenbarnevelt wordt geroemd en de Synode van Dort nogal ongunstig beoordeeld. Ook te Haarlem verboden, waarschijnlijk kort na 9 Jan. 1789". Very rare. No copy traced on the market.
- Paper over boards chafed and over spine partly worn off.
= Interesting defence of polygamy in which examples of polygamy in the Old Testament are put forward.
- Usual occas. browning/ foxing. Binding soiled. = Mendelssohn II, p.502; not in Gay.
- First title lacks 1 map. Upper joint of second vol. starting and top of spine sl. dam.
= Ad 1: Rare copy of the first Dutch edition of Mungo Park's classic Travels in the Interior Districts of Africa (London, 1799). Cf. Cox I, p.394f; Henze IV, p.14; Kainbacher II, p.168; Gay 2788; Howgego P21: "In 1794 Park offered his services to the African Association, the intention being to follow the route pioneered by Daniel Houghton across West Africa in an attempt to reach the River Niger. (...) His offer was accepted and it was decided to recruit fifty more men to act as his escort. (...) Park eventually left Pisania (2.12.95) with an English-speaking Mandingo guide called Johnson, a slave called Demba, a horse and two asses, food supply for two days, an umbrella, a sextant, a compass, a thermometer and four firearms. (...) He reached Sego (= Segou) on the River Niger on 20.7.96, where he was at last able to confirm that the river flowed towards the east. (...) [He] arrived back at Pisania on 10.6.97 (...). Warmly received in London, Park spent the next year writing his immensely popular Travels in the Interior of Africa (1799) (...)." Ad 2: The very rare first Dutch edition. Cf. Henze II, p.635 (Houghton), IV, p.14 (Park) and p.579-580 (Rennell). Cf. Gay 2788, listing i.a. the first edition published in London, 1797.
- Contents loose(ning); title and final leaf sl. stained and ink-speckled; contemp. annots. in pen and ink in blank margins and occas. underlinings; lacks pastedowns and endpapers; printer's mark on final leaf traced over w. pen and ink on verso of leaf (prob. contemporary).
= Renouard p.182,3; Adams M 452.
- The almanac bent in order to fit into the tube. Tube trifle worn.
= Cf. Welsh 180ff. Rare miniature almanac containing fine, delicate plates. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXVIII.