2076 - 2859 OLD and RARE BOOKS
- Fold. map sl. yellowed. Corners trifle rubbed; frontcover loose.
= In 1764 three members of the Society of Dillettanti set off from England to Ionia, the coastal area of present day Turkey and the islands in the Aegean Sea near that coast. Apart from the author Richards Chandler (1738-1810), the two other members of the Society of Dilettanti on the expedition were the architect Nicholas Revett (1720-1804) and the artist William Pars (1742-1782). The Society of Dilettanti, founded in 1734 by a group of people who had been on the Grand Tour, was a society of noblemen and gentlemen that sponsored the study of ancient Greek and Roman art. Its aim was to influence and correct the public taste of the country. The expedition was the Society's first independent mission. Its goal was to explore and describe the antiquities of Ionia. Atabey 215; Blackmer 318; Cox I, p.232. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXXVII.
- Usual occas. browning/ foxing. Otherwise fine.
= The rare first vol. Contains maps of "China en aangrensende landen", Japan and "Filippynsche, Landrones, Moluccos of specery eilanden, als mede Celebes". Tiele 1033; Lust 454; Cordier, Bibl. Sinica 44; Bibl. Alt-Japan-Katalog 1342. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXXVII.
- Usual occas. browning/ foxing. Otherwise fine.
= Contains maps of Borneo, Sumatra and Java and of "Malakka, Siam, Cambodia, Chiampa, Kochinchina, Laos, Pegu enz." and a nice fold. view of Batavia.
- Usual occas. browning/ foxing. Otherwise fine.
- Lacks the map of Ceylon; sl. yellowed throughout. Corners and spine-ends worn.
AND an incomplete copy of: IDEM, Hedendaagsche Historie, of Tegenwoordige Staat van alle Volkeren (...). IV. Deel, Behelzende den Tegenwoordigen Staat van Persia, Arabia, en het Asiatisch Tartaryen. Dutch transl. and enl. ed. M. van Goch (ibid., 1732, engr. frontisp., 2 (of 3) fold. maps, 1 (of 9) (fold.) plates, contemp. sprinkled calf. Spine-ends dam.; corners worn).
- All maps waterstained (some more severely); title-p. soiled/ darkened; bookplate on upper pastedown. Binding badly worn.
= Phillips 3268.
- Lacks 1 map; first and final ±10 lvs. loose and frayed (incl. title and 3 portrait plates); "Belgii vetris typus" w. large tear; Lacks ties; covers wrinkled and browned.
= Koeman, Col 5. Second Dutch edition (first published in 1635), with the text enlarged.
- Occas. sl. yellowed and foxed; sl. cramped inner margin between frontisp. and title. Joints splitting; binding worn along extremities.
= The translation of the Atlas des enfans (Amst., 1779).
- Waterstain in upper and lower margin; some foxing and soiling in margins. Binding waterstained; upper joint splitting near spine-ends; corners worn/ showing.
= Rare, not in the usual reference works.
- One map and 1 text leaf loose; three maps and the surrounding textleaves w. sm. inkstain in extreme outer blank margin (receding from 3 mm.); "Hemisphere Septentrionale" map w. one false crease along central fold and small light brown stain on the North Pole. Otherwise all maps in fine and very clean condition. Binding dam.
= Phillips 601. Koeman IV, Ren 3: "This edition with text in Dutch was published by R. and I. Ottens after a careful correction of the original plates obtained from Louis Renard. The Ottens Firm had previously published a French version of the atlas (1739) without altering the plates. In this edition with Dutch text the name of Louis Renard was effaced from the plates and replaced by the names of Reinier and Iosua Ottens. Apart from that, nearly all the plates were corrected by adding place names, altering coast lines, shoals and soundings." Six maps are new in this edition: the world map, 2 maps with the hemispheres, the famous world map with isogones by Edmund Halley, a map with the European postal communications and the "Nieuwe Paskaart van Hitland met de daar Omliggende Eylanden". SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXXVIII.
- Binding sl. rubbed; corners showing. Internally fine.
= Cf. Phillips 195. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXXVIII.
- Clipping tipped onto first free endpaper; contemp. owner's entry ("Maria Sophia de Sweersen") on 5th blank.
= BCNI 14757. Cf. De Rynck/ Welkenhuysen p.106 (1st Nutius-ed. 1604).
BOUND WITH: Idem. Vierige Meditatien ofte Aendachten, ende de Alleen-spraken der Zielen tot Godt (...). Ibid., idem, 1687, 4th ed., 343,(5)p., engr. title-vignette, 4 ident. woodengr. title-vignettes.
= Contains the following parts: 1. Vierige Meditatien; 2. Innige Alleen-spraecken der Zielen tot Godt; 3. Handt-boecxken Van der Aenschouwinge Christi; 4. Devote Meditatien ofte Aendachten van den Heyligen ende Honigh-vloeyenden Leeraer Bernardus and 5. De Strael der Goddelyker Liefden De welcke de sommige S. Anselmo toeschrijven.
- Contents fine, but loosening. Vellum stained. = Belgica typographica 5125.
- Vol. 1 only. One plate and opposite textp. mouldy in upper margin; plates and textp. occas. sl. foxed. Frontcover loose(ning).
= A supplementary vol. was published in 1802. The rare first edition, containing some of the earliest views of Sydney and Parramatta. Ferguson 263: "Collins went to Botany Bay with the first fleet as Judge Advocate. He was also secretary to Governor Philip and had unique opportunities of observing the conditions of and transactions in the infant settlement [the colony of New South Wales was proclaimed by Philip in February 1788]. His record is consequently most valuable and trustworthy. The illustrations were engraved from watercolour drawings made by Edward Dayes from sketches made in the colony, apparently by a convict artist, Thomas Watling (...)." The final eight plates are remarkable in showing the initiation rite that young boys had to undergo in order to become men. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXXIX.
- Contents very fine. Binding some stains and top of spine chipped.
= Contains the text of the Ottoman-Austrian Trade Agreement of 24 March 1784 and preceding trade agreements between Austria and Turkey and Russia.
- Lacks 2 plates; foxed, mostly in blank margins; bookplate on upper pastedown.
= Cohen/ De Ricci 115-116; Graesse I, p.306.
- Trifle foxed; first fold. proclamation w. tear and sm. hole. Frontcover loose.
= Knuttel, Verboden boeken 423; Knuttel 19864. Probably the most notorious anti-orangist pamphlet, published anonymously, causing a stir and string of reactions in the Netherlands upon publication. "Er werd dan 25 en 26 September 1781 op de straten der voornaamste Hollandsche steden een boekje gevonden, dat als een donderslag in de ooren deed klinken van allen, allen in den lande, vriend en vijand. (...) Het droeg den naam van Ostende als plaats van herkomst aan het einde, maar ieder wist wel, dat de schrijver met het noemen van den naam dier toenmalige vrijplaats voor politieke misdadigers niets anders bedoelde dan dat hij wist waarheen te vluchten als hij ooit bekend werd." (A. LOOSJES, Een Krachtig Libel. Studie over het pamflet Aan het volk van Nederland, p.13 (Haarlem, 1886. A copy is included in the lot)).
BOUND WITH the following related publications: 1. Nacht-Praatje tusschen Louw en Krelis, Over een op Kattenburg, op Straat gevonden gedrukt Boekje, genaamt: Aan het volk van Nederland (n.pl., n.d.); 2. Vrymoedige aanmerkingen op het berucht werkje, betyteld: Aan het volk van Nederland (...) (n.pl., n.d.); 3. Missive, betreffende de zo beruchte Aan het volk van Nederland ("In Holland", 1782); 4. Brief van Batavus aan zyne waarde landgenooten, het volk van Nederland. Kunnende strekken tot een byvoegsel op den verboden brief (...) (Alkm. etc., n.d.); 5. Myne eerste aanspraak, aan het volk van Nederland ("In Holland", 1785); 6. De Verrekyker waar door het zo streng verboden boekje, betyteld, Aan 't volk van Nederland, van verre geleezen is (n.pl., n.d.); 7. De gepaste aanspraak aan 't volk van Nederland in 't algemeen, en aan de inwoonders der stad Amsterdam in 't byzonder (...) door Roterodamo-Anglus (Rott., n.d.); 8. and 9. Aan het volk van Nederland (n.pl., n.d. Two diff. editions of the same pro-orangist pamplet). - AND WITH 2 fold. broadside proclamations (The Hague, I. Scheltus, 1781) condemning the publication ("seeker seer oproerig en lasterlyk Libel") and offering a bounty to anyone who can reveal the identity of the author.
AND 21 others related, 18th-20th cent., incl. small publications, i.a. I. DU PUY, Lof-rede op J.D. van der Capellen (Zwolle/ Amst., 1784, engr. title, contemp. wr.); CONSIDERATIEN OVER HET PLACAAT (...) afgekondigt tegens een boekje genaamd; Aan het volk van Nederland (Utr., n.d., contemp. wr.); ANTWOORD VAN 'T GOEDE VOLK VAN NEDERLAND, Aan den verborgen schryver des briefs, gevonden op de straaten der voornaamste Hollandsche steden (n.pl., n.d., later wr.); K. VAN LIGTDAL, Le despotisme de la maison d'Orange (n.pl., n.d., contemp. wr.) and DEDUCTIE VOOR DE HEEREN VAN DE RIDDERSCHAP VAN OVERYSSEL. Nopens de zaak van den Heer J.D. van der Capellen tot den Pol en de drostendiensten (Kampen, 1783, later hvellum).
= A very interesting collection.
- Bookblock frayed; partly sl. stained in outer blank margin; annot. in pen and ink on first free blank; sm. marking in ballpoint on title-p. and A2r.
= Knuttel, Verboden boeken 423; Knuttel 19864.
AND 3 others, incl. 2 duplicates of the first work and Consideratien over het Placaat (...) afgekondigt tegens een boekje genaamd; Aan het volk van Nederland. Utr., n.publ., n.d. (1781), (2),42p., without binding.
- Library stamp on title-p.
= Fictitious imprint "Gedrukt te Antwerpen, by Justus Roelof Jonas." Knuttel 19870.
- All vols. w. bookplate on upper pastedown. Binding sl. rubbed. A fine set.
= All published. "(...) in de Patriottentijd, toen de burgerij zich heel nadrukkelijk met binnenlandse politiek ging bezighouden. Deftige herensociëteiten werden plotseling getransformeerd tot politieke clubs. Het koffiehuis diende nu als aktiecentrum voor het opstellen van petities. Maar de moraliserende weekbladen hebben deze politieke emancipatie niet begeleid, laat staan gedirigeerd. Zij bleven als voorheen vertogen leveren over abstracte thema's als vrijheid en vaderlandsliefde. Concrete invulling van die idealen werd overgelaten aan diverse partijbladen die in de jaren tachtig ontstaan, zoals de patriottische Post van den Neder-Rhyn (1781-1787) van Pieter 't Hoen en zijn orangistische tegenhanger, De Ouderwetse Nederlandsche Patriot (1781-1782) van Rijklof Michaël van Goens." (Buijnsters, Spectatoriale geschriften, p.76).
- Owner's stamp on first blank and title-p.
= Banned anti-Orangist pamphlet. Knuttel 20755; Knuttel, Verb. boeken 324.