2499 - 3244 OLD and RARE BOOKS
- Pastedowns detached; bookplate on verso frontcover; trifle/ sl. foxed; 1 plate w. tear.
= Tiele 1010; Haitsma Mulier/ Van der Lem 447a; Bodel Nijenhuis 88.
- Contents sl. browned; a few lvs. w. sm. waterstain.
= Tiele 1011; Haitsma Mulier/ Van der Lem 447a. Provenance: the collection A.M. van den Broek. with his bookplate.
- Corners and spine-ends sl. worn.
AND 1 other: S. STYL, De opkomst en bloei van de Republiek der Vereenigde Nederlanden. Vermeerderd met een slotzang, ter liefde van het vaderland; door denzelfden (Amst./ Harlingen, 1778, 2nd enl. ed., contemp. diced calf w. red mor. letterpiece. Backstrip dam.).
- Binding trifle worn along edges. Fine and clean copy. = Haitsma Mulier/ Van der Lem 455c.
(Knoop, W.J.). Deductie voor de heeren van de ridderschap van Overyssel. Kampen, J.A. de Chalmot, 1733, (2),486,(6),VIIIp., contemp. limp boards.
- Ticket on title-p.; occas. vaguely stained in margin. Backstrip and covers (sl.) worn; joints splitting.
= Knuttel 20706.
AND 1 other.
- Occas. yellowed/ sl. browned/ foxed (plates generally fine).
= The list of plates mentions 4 more portraits, but they were never added to this edition. Haitsma Mulier/ Van der Lem 9a; Lipperheide Gb25. Chronicle covering the years 647-1305. Stoke was the first Dutch historiographer describing Dutch history from an international perspective.
- Occas. trifle foxed; libr. (cancel) stamps and annot. in ballpoint on first free endpaper. Top of spine restored; leather over covers and joints chafed/ sl. worn.
= The list of plates mentions 4 more portraits, but they were never added to this edition. Haitsma Mulier/ Van der Lem 9a; Lipperheide Gb25. Chronicle covering the years 647-1305. Stoke was the first Dutch historiographer describing Dutch history from an international perspective.
- Both vols. vellum sl. dustsoiled. Good/ fine copies.
- Bookplate on upper pastedown. A fine copy.
= French translation of Sir William Temples Observations upon the United Provinces of the Netherlands (1673).
AND 2 others, i.a. an incomplete copy of 'T SWART TONEEL-GORDYN, Opgeschoven voor de Heeren Gebroederen Cornelis en Joan de Witt (n.pl., 1677, 3rd ed., 2 (of 3) parts in 1 vol., 2 engr. portraits, fold. plate, later marbled boards. Lacks part 3).
- One text leaf in vol. 3 loose; occas. trifle foxed. Bindings sl. rubbed along extremities. A good/ fine set.
- Trifle foxed; owner's stamp on title and first free endpaper. Otherwise a fine copy.
= Haitsma Mulier/ Van der Lem 309b; De Wind p.45-49.
- Second half increasing waterstain in outer blank margin (occas. just touching the text).
= De Wind p.486.
- Fine set in attractive binding. Engr. armorial bookplate of G.C.A.M. van Havre on upper pastedown.
= Haitsma Mulier/ Van der Lem 507f; De Buck 1130.
- Occas. tear in plate; trifle yellowed/ dustsoiled; endpapers mostly loose/ dam. All vols. letterpiece chafed/ bindings worn/ dam.
= Haitsma Mulier/ Van der Lem 507f; De Buck 1130.
- Lacks one plate; a few vols. (sl.) wormholed. Bindings sl. worn; a few vols. spine-ends dam.
= Haitsma Mulier/ Van der Lem 507f; De Buck 1130.
Huizinga Bakker, P. Het leeven van Jan Wagenaar. Ibid., Yntema en Tieboel, 1776, (8),191,(8)p., contemp. gilt calf w. mor. letterpiece.
- Owner's entry (of M. Buisman) on first free endpaper. Spine rubbed.
- Contents not collated, but appears to be complete; contains all the plates called for in the binder's instructions (a few vols. lacking those instructions). Some minor defects, incl. owner's entry on first free endpaper of all vols.; 1 vol. w. a few lvs. sl. wormholed. Bindings sl. worn along extremities; 7 vols. lack volume-piece. Good, attractively bound set.
= Extra-illustrated with ±50 plates/ portraits. Haitsma Mulier/ Van der Lem 507f; De Buck 1130.
BOUND WITH (in vol. 21): Idem. Vaderlandsche historie verkort; en by vraagen en antwoorden voorgesteld. Ibid., idem, 1770, 2nd ed., (12),162,(1)p., 4 engr. (title-)vignettes and 12 plates w. each 2 ills. Wyn, H. van, Lambrechtsen, N.C., Martini, A., Engelberts, E.M. a.o. Byvoegsels en aanmerkingen voor de Vaderlandsche Historie (...). Ibid., J. Allart, 1799, 20 parts in 4 vols., 3 (of 6) fold. plates, 6 portraits, bound unif. w. preceding.
- Lacks 3 plates in 2nd vol. according to the binder's instructions. Otherwise appears to be complete (contents not collated). One plate cut sl. short; 1 vol. partly sl. waterst. Bindings sl. worn along extremities.
= Haitsma Mulier/ Van der Lem 507f; De Buck 1130.
- Good set.
= With in vol. 21 the Vaderlandsche Historie verkort (with 24 ills. on 12 plates). Haitsma Mulier/ Van der Lem 507f; De Buck 1130.
Idem. Vaderlandsche historie (...) ten onmiddelyken vervolge van Wagenaars Vaderlandsche historie (...) den jaare 1752 - (...) 1774. Ibid., J. Allart, 1797, 3rd ed., 3 vols., 3 plates, 7 portraits, contemp. unif. marbled wr.
- Spine-ends trifle rubbed, otherwise a fine set.
= Attractively bound set. Haitsma Mulier/ Van der Lem 507f; De Buck 1130.
- Mounted annots. by Van den Broek on upper pastedown; otherwise contents fine and clean. Corners sl. rubbed.
= Rare and important work on the Forgotten War of Noord-Holland. On 27 August 1799 the English army invaded Noord-Holland from Den Helder to liberate the Low Countries from the French. Together with the Russians they fought several fierce battles, reaching a climax in the battle of Castricum, where the English and Russian armies were defeated in an unexpected Batavian attack. On 18 October 1799, no less than 2 months after their glorious invasion, the English and Russian armies were forced to retreat and the Duke of York signed an agreement with the French warlord Brune. The plates illustrate Den Helder from Mars Diep, Oude Huys, Schagen, Bergen, Alkmaar, Egmont op Zee, Egmont op den Hoef. Provenance: the collection A.M. van den Broek. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE CXXIX.
- Joints, spine-ends and corners sl. rubbed; paper ticket on frontcover vol. 3.
= Haitsma Mulier/ Van der Lem 513e.
- Folded; sl. yellowed and fingersoiled.
= Early issue of the longest running newspaper (first weekly, later daily) in the world. The first number was published in 1656 by Abraham Casteleyn.