79/2185 Oriental manuscripts Persian manuscript 
79/2185 Oriental manuscripts Persian manuscript 
- Blank margins partly w. (closed) tears. = SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXXXII.
79 2186 Oriental manuscripts Lot of 7 oriental/ religious manuscripts 
79 2186 Oriental manuscripts Lot of 7 oriental/ religious manuscripts 
79/2187 Overijssel Two account books of lands mortgages and annuities 
79/2187 Overijssel Two account books of lands mortgages and annuities 
79/2187 Overijssel Two account books of lands mortgages and annuities 
- Vol. 1 bookblock loose; most lvs. waterst./ soiled in margins; loosely inserted lvs. sl. frayed/ creased. Both bindings soiled/ stained; lack ties.
= Interleaved copy w. several (smaller) lvs. loosely inserted; both vols. include 2 indices: "Register der Landerijen" and "Register van los- ende lijfrenten". Comprises various documents related to (farm)lands and goods in the Dutch province Overijssel, esp. lease and annuity costs. Contents e.g. (vol. 1, f.1) "Memorie van landerijen ende goederen onder de Gelder gehorende opgestelt den 27sten december 1696" and (vol. 2, f.6) "Gerrit Maeten en sien heusvrou Gessin van Warven hebben op paessen 1722 weer ingeheurt onse wint- en rosmoele met den ankleve van dien voor teit van drie iaer geevinde tot een voormeede 75 gulden en alle iaer 375 gulden vreijgelt en vreijmaelen van mijn eigen kooren (...)". Vol. 2 contains a loosely inserted charter (signed "Wijbrant Koiman") w. attached wax seal in wooden cover.
79 2188 Sports McEnroe J b 1959 
= With certificate of authenticity.
79/2189 Terborg Archive concerning the construction of the mansion Mathilde and its first inhabitants 
= The mansion "Mathilde" with its characteristic round façade is located at the intersection of the Stationsweg and Doetinchemseweg in Terborg, Gelderland. It was constructed by the architect C. van 't Hullenaar for his daughter Mathilde who was married to doctor J.F.C. Borggreve.
79 2190 Theatre Kan W 1911 1983 
= Nice letters on appointments and arrangement for the peformance of a show in Paris, i.a. on the fee, on personnel, hotel reservations, visiting a Paris cabaret and on transport. "(...) De familie Schole hoopt 30 Nov. per auto te arriveren! Pam Henning, Corry Vonk en ik ook 30 Nove. per trein om ±18.00 Gare du Nord. Als u ons komt halen is dat prettig. Als het niet kan zien we dat wel. Als Cor Lemaire meer op 1 Dec. even van diezelfde trein gehaald kan worden, want anders is ie zo alleen in dat grote Parijs. U herkent hem direct: de man die er het slechtste uitzien is Cor Lemaire!" [10/11/1951].
AND 2 autogr. letters signed by FIE CARELSEN to Mr Thal Larsen, 2 Jan. and 21 Sept. 1951, pen and ink, each 1 leaf recto and verso (on arrangements for a perfomance abroad of "Fie Carelsen telefoneert").
79 2191 Turkey Mehmed Emin Ali Pasha 1815 1871 
- Folded several times, with some slight wear on folds.
= Mehmed Emin Ali Pasha (also spelled as Mehmed Emin Aali), was an important statesman, involved in many of the major decisions between 1845 and 1871. He also had a decisive influence on the plans concerning the development of the Turkish railroad infrastructure. The present document apparently relates to the planning of railway routes in the European part of the Ottoman empire (important for the unification of the rapidly weakening Ottoman empire) and gives an (unidentified) Austrian(?) engineer the task to advise the Ottoman rulers on the best route for the railway line and also orders the Ottoman bureaucracy to support him whenever he requests support.
79/2192 Voorburg Huis Vreeburg Voorburg 
= Mostly notarial deeds concerning the country house Vreeburg near Voorburg. The stately home was eventually sold to a mr. Hendrik Abraham Bollard in 1826. The artist Johannes Huibert Prins (1757-1806) drew a section of this house dated around the same time as these documents in his sketchbook (now in Rijksmuseum, BI-1891-3134-2).
79/2193 World War I Small archive 
= Contains letters by a mr. W.P. Waterson from London (4x) and his son Fred Waterson (2x), a 2nd army lieutenant, who was killed in action in 1917, aged 21. All letters addressed to mr. A. Rozenbroek in Amsterdam, a friend of the family. Fred, who had knowledge of the Dutch language, i.a. writes from France, where he is stationed (29 August 1916): "(...) Ik ben nog niet naar de loopgraven geweest, maar verwacht voor Kerstmis daar al te zijn. Het nieuws van daag is bijzonder goed en ik denk dat de oorlog bij aanstaande lente af geloopen zal zijn, tenminste ik hoop het wel." From W.P. Waterson (1 September 1917): "My dear Sir, It is with infinite sorrow I have to tell you that our dear son Fred was killed in action on 31st July last (...). I shall always remember the kindness that our boy received at the hands of all the people in Holland (...)". Small but touching collection of personal documents.
79 2194 Abraham van St Clara = J U Megerle 
79 2194 Abraham van St Clara = J U Megerle 
- First frontisp. strengthened along inner margin on recto; hinges broken but holding on cords; bookblock shaken.
= Scheepers II, 1078; not in Waller, Muller, De Vries.
79 2195 Africa Dapper O 
79 2195 Africa Dapper O 
79 2195 Africa Dapper O 
79 2195 Africa Dapper O 
79 2195 Africa Dapper O 
79 2195 Africa Dapper O 
79 2195 Africa Dapper O 
- Owner's stamp on title-p.; occas. sl. browned as usual (affecting a few maps and plates), nevertheless contents fine. Binding fine apart from some worn spots along margins and sl. split upper joint.
= The second revised and best edition (first 1668). Tiele 298; Gay 219; Mendelssohn II, p.119. The first large general description of the African continent. The work is based on the early accounts of the Portuguese and Spanish explorers, the English works by Purchass and Jarrick, the journals and descriptions of Dutch navigators like Van Noort, Van Neck, Linschoten, Spilbergen, but especially on unpublished reports and eye-witness accounts of Dutch merchants, visitors and soldiers. Very detailed on the West Coast, where the Dutch ivory-, gold- and slave-trade flourished and on Angola (Luanda was captured by a WIC fleet in 1647). On the settlement on the Cape only a cursory note is found, while the surrounding tribes are described in remarkable detail. The second part, devoted to the African islands, from Malta to Madagascar, includes an ample account of the French colonization of the latter. The work is famous for its splendid detailed maps and plates, i.a. engraved after drawings by Reinier Noomsz (Zeeman). SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXXXIII.
79 2196 Africa Park M 
- Trifle yellowed. Otherwise a fine copy in a good binding.
= Rare complete copy of the first Dutch edition of Mungo Park's classic Travels in the Interior Districts of Africa (London, 1799). 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) (...)."
79 2197 Africa Shaw T 
79 2197 Africa Shaw T 
79 2197 Africa Shaw T 
- A few plates w. sm. tears along fold. Backstrips sl. worn.
= Tiele 1001; Cox I, p.377; Nissen, ZBI 3841. Both vols. with title of the first Dutch edition of 1773, but with collation of the ed. Amst., 1780. The first (English) edition was published in 1738, four years after Shaw's return from Africa. Howgego S92: "English scholar, natural historian and traveller (1692-1751). (...) After receiving holy orders, Shaw was appointed chaplain to the English factory in Algiers. He held the post for twelve years, then travelled for three years across North Africa, passing through Algeria, Tunisia, Libya and Egypt, and continuing into Palestine and Syria."
79 2198 Africa Tournefort J Pitton de 
79 2198 Africa Tournefort J Pitton de 
79 2198 Africa Tournefort J Pitton de 
- Bookplate and owner's stamp of A.P.M. de Kluijs on upper pastedown and first free endpaper
= The first and only Dutch edition. Tiele 1103; Nissen ZBI, 4157 and Hunt 445; Blackmer sale 329 (French edition, 1717) and Atabey 959-961 (various editions). "Joseph Pitton de Tournefort (1656-1708) was one of the greatest botanists of his time, discovering many new plant species during his travels in the Levant." (Blackmer). "The botanist Pitton de Tournefort set out for the Levant in 1700 on a mission for Louis XIV. He was accompanied by the artist Claude Aubriet, whose drawings were engraved for the work, and by the doctor Gundelsheimer. The party travelled extensively in the Greek archipelago and Crete, continuing on to Constantinople and Asia Minor, then overland to Persia, returning to Paris in 1702." (Atabey).
79/2199 Almanacs Almanach voor het verstand en hart voor het jaar MDCCC 
- Binding rubbed/ (sl.) worn. = The Children's World of Learning 2450; cf. Waller 137 (year 1801 and later).
Almanach der Musen en Gratiën, aan vriendschap, liefde en kunst gewijd. 1815. Amst., E. Maaskamp, (1814), (16),107,(2)p., (stipple-)engr. frontisp., title-p. and 6 plates, contemp. plain boards, 12mo.
- Occas. sl. (finger)soiled. Covers sl. rubbed. = Waller 95; The Children's World of Learning 2373.
79/2200 Almanacs Almanak voor vrouwen door vrouwen het jaar MDCCCIV 
79/2200 Almanacs Almanak voor vrouwen door vrouwen het jaar MDCCCIV 
- Trifle spotted; sl. cut short in upper margin, occas. affecting page number. Spine creased and dam. at top.
= Waller 141 (year 1801 and further); The Children's World of Learning 2457.
79/2201 Almanacs Tafereelen voor het hart 
79/2201 Almanacs Tafereelen voor het hart 
- All plates w. (nearly invisible) waterstain in upper centre, mainly in blank margin but occas. affecting image. Joints splitting.
= Very rare, no copies in NCC.
79 2202 Alphen H van 
= Small leaflet inserted w. annot. in contemp. hand: "Het spijt mij dat mijn vriend, bij de aanhaaling van die Frases Blad: 85 na Andere, niet gedagt heeft om Psalm XVI.4. Mij dunkt dat nú zoo openbaar geworden Monster moest in geen Christelijk boek, dat in des geest des Evangelius (zie pag 84.) geschreeven is, genoemt of gedagt worden! men moest schrikken hunne naamen op de lippe te noemen, veel min ten voorbeelde te stellen". These remarks concern Voltaire. From the collection of H.A. Höweler with his bookplate on upper pastedown. Buijnsters 43.
- Joints starting at top of spine. Contents fine.
= With an extensive ms. annot. by D.F. van Alphen, Van Alphen's son, on first and final 2 blank lvs. mentioning that he received this volume as a gift from his father. Buijnsters 12.
Idem. Digtkundige verhandelingen. Ibid., G.T. van Paddenburg etc., 1782, 1st ed., (4),240,CC,(2)p., contemp. hcalf w. mor. letterpiece.
- Rubbed along extremities. = Buijnsters 24.
Idem and Kasteele, P.L. van. Stigtelijke mengelpoëzy. Ibid., Wed. J. van Terveen & zoon, 1782, 1st ed., (2),368p., sl. later hcalf w. mor. letterpiece (Buijnsters 22). - AND 6 others in 7 vols. by/ on the same, i.a. H. VAN ALPHEN, Kleine bijdragen, tot bevordering van wetenschap en deugd (...) (The Hague, 1796, contemp. gilt hcalf w. 2 contrasting mor. letterpieces) and (H.W. TYDEMAN and J.T. BODEL NIJENHUIS), Lofrede op Mr. Hieronymus van Alphen (n.pl., n.d. (1859), contemp. gilt red boards).
79 2204 Alphen H van 
79 2204 Alphen H van 
- Some sl. occas. thumbing/ soiled.
= BNK 1409, 1421 and 1425; Lust en Leering p.46; Buijnsters 14, 15 and 23. "Alle 18e-eeuwse geautoriseerde uitgaven die bij de firma Terveen verschenen, waren ongeïllustreerd." (Buijnsters 14). "Voor elk van de 24 gedichtjes [of Proeve (...)] werd echter kort na verschijnen een prent gegraveerd door J. Punt en N. van der Meer Jr. naar tekening van Jacobus Buijs. Deze prentjes werden vervolgens in sets van acht of zes stuks, voorzien van een bedrukte omslag, afzonderlijk uitgegeven door Johannes Allart te Amsterdam (...). Een en ander heeft de weg geopend tot eindeloze bibliografische verwarring. In de praktijk kunnen diverse staten van tekst en illustraties door elkaar lopen, al naar gelang de toenmalige bezitter beide in één band liet verenigen." (BNK 1406).
WITH: Zes kunstplaaten, behoorende tot de Proeve van Kleine Gedichten voor Kinderen, door Mr. H. van Alphen. Tweede Stukje. No.3. Amst., J. Allart, 1781, 6 engr. plates, loose as issued in orig. letterpress wr., sm. 8vo.
= BNK 1443.
Vinkeles, R. (1741-1816). (Illustrations for Kleine Gedichten voor Kinderen). Series of 67 (incl. 1 duplicate) engravings, each ±7,5x5 cm., PROOFS BEFORE LETTERS, loose w. an engr. portr. of Van Alphen by P. VELYN on chine collé, together in modern clamshell box.
- A few prints sl. yellowed or soiled; all prints later numb., titled and w. "Vinkeles" in pencil in blank margins. Rare complete series of PROOFS.
= BNK p.224 (note to the section "Uitgaven van de platen"): "Toen de 66 koperplaten door intensief gebruik danig waren afgesleten, heeft Reinier Vinkeles ze opnieuw gegraveerd (...). Bij de verzameluitgave van 1787 werden deze prenten samengevoegd met boven- en onderschriften in staande letter." On the portrait of Van Alphen: Buijnsters p.370, Iconografie 7: "bestemd voor de uitgave van Kleine Gedichten voor Kinderen, Utrecht 1821 (de z.g. "Van Alphen met de hoedjes")." SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXXXIII.