2896 - 3588 OLD and RARE BOOKS
- Fine and clean copy despite the following minor defects: title sm. brown stain; 1 plate tear on fold closed; 1 plate inner blank margin soiled. Dam. at spine-ends; covers scratched.
= Nijhoff/ Van Hattum 75. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXIX.
- Lacks 2 plates. Frontisp. and armorial plate laid down; a few lvs. strengthened w. tape; most plates (hastily) partly handcol.; sl. stained in outer margin; some plates/ lvs. w. dam. spots/ tears (occas. repaired); a few scattered annots. Vellum sl. stained; lacks ties. Sold w.a.f.
= Nijhoff/ Van Hattum 75.
- Lacks 6 plates; part of the plates with vertical brown stain in centre (from glue) and a few w. sm. stains; a few lvs. w. waterstain in lower or upper margin; a few lvs. browned and with some other minor imperfections. Extremities binding rubbed; sm. tear in top and foot of spine.
= From the library of Menno Hertzberger with his bookplate on upper pastedown. Nijhoff/ Van Hattum 75.
- Frontisp. loose(ning); sl. foxed. = Nijhoff/ Van Hattum 106. First published in 1736.
AND an incomplete copy of D. WILLINK, Amsterdamsche Buitensingel, nevens de omleggende dorpen, opgeheldert door aanteekeningen over veele voornaame geschiedenissen (Amst., 1738, 2nd ed., lacks most plates, contemp. gilt hcalf w. mor. letterpiece, sm. 8vo. Nijhoff/ Van Hattum 332).
- Occas. sl. yellowed/ foxed. Binding worn; covers loose; needs rebinding.
= Rare edition. Nijhoff/ Van Hattum 121.
- Lacks the bird's eye plan. Binding w. restorations at top of spine and backcover; covers scratched.
- Lacks the plan; bookplate on upper pastedown. Binding sl. worn along extremities.
Vijver, C. van der. Wandelingen in en om Amsterdam. Ibid., J.C. van Kesteren, 1829, VIII,416,8p., engr. title and 4 plates, contemp. boards w. paper letterpiece.
- Upper joint splitting; frontcover waterst. in corner and w. sm. ticket.
- Lacks 3 plates; one plate loose; some occas. foxing. Bindings sl. worn; covers chafed; joints of vol.4 splitting.
= Nijhoff/ Van Hattum 311. Incl. the rare 4th vol.
- Paper over covers sl. worn off. Otherwise a very fine set
= LARGE PAPER and EXTRA ILLUSTRATED copy w. 51 additional plates, i.a. from C. COMMELIN, Beschryvinge van Amsterdam (1693) and P. FOUQUET, Nieuwe atlas der stad Amsterdam (1783). Nijhoff/ Van Hattum 311.
- Vol. 2 without p.181/182 as always; all vols. trifle foxed; sl. yellowed, occas. lvs. browned, otherwise contents fine. All vols. spine-ends sl. dam.; bindings worn along extremities.
= LARGE PAPER COPY and EXTRA ILLUSTRATED i.a. w. plates from COMMELIN. Nijhoff/ Van Hattum 311. As often without the fourth volume which was published 21 years after the third volume.
- Occas. sl. foxed/ yellowed/ browned; vol. 3 p.143-154 wormholed. Paper over covers sl. worn off; vol. 1 and 2 spine-ends chipped/ dam.
= LARGE PAPER COPY and EXTRA ILLUSTRATED i.a. w. plates from COMMELIN. Nijhoff/ Van Hattum 311. As often without the fourth volume which was published 21 years after the third volume.
- Contents loose(ning) and occas. (sl.) yellowed; vol. 3 partly waterstained. All bindings dam.
= With SIGNED DEDICATION by CORNELIS PLOOS VAN AMSTEL to J. WESSELING on verso frontisp. in pen and ink. Nijhoff/ Van Hattum 311. As often without the fourth volume published 21 years after the third volume.
- Vol. 2 lacks as usual p.181-182; occas. sl. foxed/ stained; plates in good condition: 2x waterst.; 1x repaired on folds; 1x loose. Spine-ends and boardedges (sl.) worn.
= Nijhoff/ Van Hattum 311. As often without the fourth volume published 21 years after the third volume.
- Lacks 5 plates; a few plates and textlvs. torn; one textleaf waterst./ dam. and w. paper remnants on opposite plate; all vols. new endpapers. Spine-ends worn/ dam.; vol.1 and 2 joints split(ting).
= Nijhoff/ Van Hattum 311. As often without the fourth volume published 21 years after the third volume.
- Covers rubbed at corners and spine-ends; vol. 1 lower joint splitting. = Nijhoff/ Van Hattum 336.
- A few plates (sl.) foxed, otherwise contents clean. Upper joint very carefully restored. A very fine and attractively bound copy.
= Sabin 1629; Cox I, p.49; Borba de Moraes I, p.38: "This is a classic account of circumnavigation which has been published in countless editions in French and other languages (...)." Cox: "This famous and unfortunate expedition, consisting at the start of eight ships, was sent under the command of George Anson at the beginning of the war with Spain, to harass the Spaniards on the western coast of South America. Seven ships were lost around Cape Horn and on the coast of Chili and out of 900 men who left England on board more than 600 perished. (...) Walter's account of the voyage is a model of what such literature should be. The mournful beauty of the passage describing their approach to Cape Horn compares well with that of Masefield's in his poem Dauber."
- Endpapers w. some offsetting; 2 lvs. in vol. 6 loose. Spines sl. chafed. A good/ fine set.
= Rare works on the archaeological site Herculaneum, first discovered in 1709.
- Owner's blindst. on title-p.; occas. trifle foxed. Bindings sl. chafed; one letterpiece discoloured.
= Copy illlustrated with an (incomplete) extra suite of plates. Cohen/ De Ricci p.97 (46 plates): "Les estampes, faites exprès pour cette édition, sont fort belles; dans certain exemplaires on a aussi placé le suite des 46 figures de l'édition italienne de Baskerville (...)".
- (Sl.) foxed throughout.