2499 - 3244 OLD and RARE BOOKS
- Both vols. w. owner's entry; new endpapers. Both vols. chafed/ corners showing; spines worn/ dam.
= Kunst op schrift 586; Arntzen/ Rainwater H69 (eds. 1604 and 1618); Chamberlin 2018; Bibl. Belg. M105; Van Someren I,212.
- One fold. plate sl. creased. Corners rubbed; backcover trifle wormholed. Otherwise fine.
= Zischka, p.119; Fromm 19878.
- Lacks 3 of the 4 "Onderwijsplaatjens" (containing the smaller educational illustrations of proportions and examples of i.a. faces and limbs). Wrappers duststained and both wr. restored in outer margin.
= Rare artist's manual. Not in Kunst op Schrift.
- Owner's entry on each title-p. Spines worn/ dam./ partly restored; covers occas. rubbed. = Rare edition.
- Vol.3 stripped of all the plates and vignettes (resulting in loss of textleaves); plates in vol. 1 and 2 partly (sl.) yellowed and all with tiny spots; without the often lacking 4th vol. published in 1769. Backstrips trifle rubbed. Sold w.a.f.
= Kunst op schrift 243-245; Arntzen/ Rainwater H129.
- A few plates and textp. foxed/ yellowed and/ or sl. browned; one double-p. plate loose. Covers and backstrip w. some sm. worn/ dam. spots.
= Tiele 299; cat. NHSM p.219. The first part containing descriptions of Northern India, Pakistan, Afghanistan (known as the land of the Grand Mogol), the second and third part dealing with Persia and neighbouring countries. Very nicely illustrated. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XCIV.
- Lacks the letterpieces; corners sl. worn; top of spine chipped. Otherwise fine.
= Contains nice maps of China, Japan and the Phillipine Islands and a fine bird's-eye view of Deshima. Rare. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XCIV.
- Partly sl. yellowed. Lacks 2 letterpieces; corners worn.
= Contains maps of Borneo, Sumatra and Java and of "Malakka, Siam, Cambodia, Chiampa, Kochinchina, Laos, Pegu" and a nice fold. view of Batavia.
- Lacks both letterpieces; corners worn.
- Owner's entry on letterpress title-p. cut out (?) and pasted over w. engr. heraldic plate; small restoration of dam. upper outer corner of engr. title (w. use of sm. bookplate of "Tjarda van Starkenborch"). Very good/ fine copy.
= Tiele 990 (note); cf. Rouffaer/ Muller I, p.55 (ed. 1775); Mendelssohn II, p.279; Landwehr VOC, 284 (note). Modernised edition (first published 1676) of Wouter Schouten's popular voyage to the Dutch East Indies, containing the same plates as the first edition, but some re-engraved. The map present in our copy: "Nieuwe en Nette Zee-Kaart van de Geheele Waereldt, Toonende de Afwykingen van het Kompas (...) Gemaakt onder 't opzigt van Kapt. Edm. Halley" not called for by Tiele or Landwehr (it was added to the 1775 and 1780 editions of Schouten's travels, but with "O. Lindeman in Almelo fecit 1775"). Howgego S66: "Schouten was an observant traveller who explored inland into the environs of nearly every port-of-call, sometimes by himself or with a small group of comrades. His narrative, full of anecdotes as well as information gleaned about countries he had not visited, became particularly popular with readers in the eighteenth century, when it was republished in no fewer than seven editions." SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XCV.
- Most leaves thumbed/ fingersoiled in lower blank margins/ corner; scattered sl. foxing; 3 leaves waterstained; 1 plate sl. frayed in lower margin (touching image). Paper over covers worn; joints partly rubbed (1x splitting at top end); corners (sl.) worn.
= Tiele 991; Rouffaer/ Muller p.55; Mendelssohn II, p.279; Landwehr VOC, 285. Modernised edition of Wouter Schouten's popular voyage to the Dutch East Indies, the first with the maps (Java, Ambon, Ceylon, nautical world map), the plates newly etched/ engraved by C. Decker. Howgego S66: "Schouten was an observant traveller who explored inland into the environs of nearly every port-of-call, sometimes by himself or with a small group of comrades. His narrative, full of anecdotes as well as information gleaned about countries he had not visited, became particularly popular with readers in the eighteenth century, when it was republished in no fewer than seven editions." SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XCV.
- Frontisp. reattached; occas. trifle fingersoiled in blank margin; sm. split on intersection of the central fold of the map. A good/ fine copy.
= Tiele 1061; Howgego S185; Blackmer 1616; Blackmer Sale 317; Cat. NHSM p.117; Cordier, Japonica p.387; Alt-Japan-Katalog 1444; Graesse VI, p.513. "Struys, 'un aventurier neerlandais', produced a very interesting and lively account of his three voyages. The plates illustrate mostly sites in Persia and the East. Three plates refer to the Archipelago: Tenos (i.e. Tenedos), Pathmos and Delfos (i.e. Delos). Struys obviously had not actually seen Delos; he confuses Delos with Delphi and describes Mt. Parnassus as being on an island in the Aegean" (Blackmer Sale). "However, Struys kept no diary, so that by the time his narrative was finally published in 1676, his fanciful imagination had somewhat distorted the reality behind his journey. At sea he experienced typhoons, shipwrecks, hunger and captivity, and was several times sold as a slave, a misfortune always guaranteed to delight a seventeenth-century audience" (Howgego). SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XCVI.
- Occas. sl. wormholed (affecting a few maps/ plates); some maps w. usual creasing on fold(s); occas. (sl.) foxed (some leaves browned); some leaves in vol. 3 and 4/1 w. ruststains (occas. w. corrosion holes); all vols. w. owner's entry on title-p. All vols. w. later (20th cent.) endpapers and unif. marbled calf over covers matching with the fine contemporary gilt backstrips; joints starting/ splitting; most spine-ends rubbed/ sl. worn. A good/ fine set, complete with all the plates conforming to the binder's instruction in the last volume.
= Landwehr, VOC 467; Tiele 1121; Alt Japan Katalog 1570; Cordier, Japonica 426-428; Cordier, Indosinica 927-930; Cat. NHSM I, 502; Mendelssohn IV, p.594. One of the most extensive works and the main old source on the Dutch East Indies with many documents, partly lost by now. Also containing important descriptions of i.a. Cape of Good Hope, China, Japan and Ceylon and 2 early voyages to Australia with interesting maps. For the description of the history of Amboina Valentyn used the unpublished and lost manuscript "Amboinsch Dierboek" by Rumphius. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XCVI.
- Fine large complete copies (57x37,5 cm. (binding)) of Blaeu's two townbooks of the Low Countries, nowadays rarely on the market, with very wide margins (55x35,4 cm. (leaf) and in attractive uniform contemporary bindings. Condition: fine/ very fine, w. the following unobtrusive points: both vols. w. all leaves on new stubs; several leaves (mostly the first (incl. title-p.) and final few leaves) unobtrusively and professionally strengthened w. japanese on small parts of extremities of blank margins (first free endpaper and title-p. of vol. 2 w. sl. dam. in lower blank margin); 5 leaves chipped in blank margin; occas. sl. duststained/ browned in blank margins; vol.1 a few leaves sl. dampstained in blank outer margin; ±50 leaves w. sm. receding waterstain in upper outer blank corner; vol.2: two maps trifle foxed in image (Everghem/ Vinderhaute and Blanckenberg). Bindings lack ties and have some small "old age" spots, but are otherwise in fine condition.
= Koeman Bl 68B and Bl 69B: "This first volume is a slightly improved version of the preceding edition (...)" and "This second volume also shows some minor amendments, compared with the former edition of the 'Stedenboek'." A monument of Dutch cartography, the "Townbooks" of Blaeu show the Netherlands and present day Belgium in their full splendour, depicting in the plates both the fortifications of the towns and cities as well as the conglomerates of their buildings in detailed plans. SEE ILLUSTRATIONS PLATE XCVII.
- Occas. stained/ yellowed; ornamental woodcut initials occas. col. (contemp.?) in red crayon. Vellum worn and stained.
= Rare edition of a popular work by Giovanni Botero, translated into many European languages. First published in 1592 without maps, this edition contains the second edition of the maps (which were first included in the 1605 edition). The work does not merely provide geographical descriptions of the various countries, but also attempts to give information of a more wide-ranging nature (religion, culture and economics). Sabin 6800; cf. Borba de Moraes I, p.114 (ed. 1599); cf. Cicogna 1097 (ed. 1605). SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XCVII.
- Old owner's entry of "Conte Caissotti Di Chiusano" in upper margin of title-p. Receding waterstain from the frontisp. up to map VI (incl. the textpages up to and incl. p.24.); otherwise occas. trifle foxed. A good/ fine copy.
= SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XCVIII.
- Occas. duststained/ fingersoiled; several maps w. closed split on folds. Paper over covers worn; spine-ends (sl.) worn; paper ticket on frontcover; top of spine chipped; corners sl. worn/ bumped.
= Koeman II, E&L2.
- Maps exceptionally good/ fine; first endpapers, title, table of contents and first 3 worldmaps w. brown stains in upper blank margin; a few maps w. tiny tear along middle fold. Binding dam.
= Koeman II: p.50, C: "With atlases of this category, we can no longer speak of a regularly produced edition. Copies with 100, 200, up to 600 maps of various composition are known (...) Messrs. Covens & Mortier collected hundreds of different maps from various publishers to bundle them up in atlases of a diversified composition. Their 'Nieuwe atlas' was often assembled by order of the collector. The register was always handwritten. The title-p. was never dated. Among the names of the publishers of these maps are the Netherlanders: P. Schenk, G. Valk, H. de Leth, F. de Wit, et al. and foreign map-makers including Homann and d'Anville, The atlases belonging to this category were sold by Covens & Mortier during 1730-1794 and even later by their successors." Contents in order of appearance: Mappemonde (fold. map by J. CONDET after G. DELISLE, Covens & Mortier, ±1730); Hemisphere Oriental/ Hemisphere Occidental/ L'Hemisphere Septentrional/ L'Hemisphere Meridional (4 maps by (J. CONDET after) G. DELISLE , Covens & Mortier and sons, 1720-1800); Carte d'Europe (Covens & Mortier and sons, 1817); Les Isles Britanniques (map by G. DELISLE, Covens & Mortier, ±1730); Regni Angliae et Walliae Principatus Tabula (Covens & Mortier, ±1740); Exactissima Regni Scotiae Tabula/ Hiberniae Regnum (2 maps, N. Visscher/ P. Schenk, 1700); Carte des Courons du Nord/ Seconde Carte des Courons du Nord/ Carte du Royaume de Danemarc/ Carte de Moscovie/ Partie Meridionale de Moscovie/ Carte de France/ Carte de Picardie Septentrionale/ Partie Meridionale de Picardie/ Carte de la Champagne/ Partie Meridionale de Champagne/ Carte de Normandie (11 (1x fold.) maps by G. DELISLE, Covens & Mortier, ±1730); Duché et Gouvernement General de Bretagne (F. de Wit, ±1700); Gouvernement general de l'Isle de France (F. de Wit/ Covens & Mortier, ±1730); Carte de la Beauce du Gatinois/ Carte particuliere d'Anjouet de Touraine/ Carte des Provinces du Maine et du Perche (3 (2x fold.) maps by G. DELISLE, Covens & Mortier, ±1730); Le Gouvernement general de Languedoc (map by N. SANSON, Covens & Mortier, ±1720); Partie Orientale du Gouvernement General de Languedoc (Covens & Mortier, 1745); Partie Septentrionale du Duche de Bourgogne/ Partie Meridionale du Duche de Bourgogne (2 maps by G. DELISLE, Covens & Mortier, ±1730); La Franche comté divisée en Trois grands Balliages (in 2 parts, H. Ialliot, 1695); Le Gouvernement General de Guienne et Gascogne (Covens & Mortier, ±1740), Le Gouvernement General du Dauphiné (F. de Wit, Covens & Mortier, ±1750); Carte de Provence (map by G. DELISLE, Covens & Mortier, ±1730); Nieuwe Algemene Kaart der Verenigde Nederlanden (fold. map by J.L. VAN BEEK en G. KONSÉ, Mortier, Covens en zoon, 1814); Nova Imperii Germanici (map by G. DELISLE, Covens & Mortier, ±1730); Marchionatus Brandenburgi et Ducatus Pomeraniae (F. de Wit, Covens & Mortier, ±1750); Partie Meridionale du Cercle de Haute Saxe (Covens & Mortier, ±1760); Circulus Saxoniae (F. de Wit, Covens & Mortier, ±1750); Le Cercle de Westphalie (H. Ialliot, 1695); Partie Orientale du Cercle de Franconie/ L'electorat de Mayence (2 maps by I. CONDET, Covens & Mortier, ±1730); Partie Septentrionale de la Souabe/ Partie Meridionale de la Souabe/ Le Cours du Rhin au dessus de Strassbourg/ Le Cours du Rhin depuis Strassbourg/ Le Cours du Rhin depuis Worms (5 maps by G. DELISLE, Covens & Mortier, ±1730); Le Cercle de Baviere (map by I. CONDET, Covens & Mortier, 1745); Circuli Austriaci (F. de Wit, Covens & Mortier, ±1720); Ducatus Carintiae et Carniolae/ Circuli Austriaci (...) Tirolis (2 maps, F. de Wit, Covens & Mortier, ±1720); Mappa Totius Regni Bohemiae (Covens & Mortier, ±1745); Sups. et inferioris Ducatus Silesiae/ Carte Generale du Marquisat de Moravie/ Le Marquisat de Haute Lusace/ Le Marquisat de Basse Lusace (4 maps, Covens & Mortier, 1741); Novae Helvetiae (map by G. DELISLE, Covens & Mortier, ±1730); Regni Prussiae et Prussiae Polonicae (F. de Wit, Covens & Mortier, ±1720);
La Pologne (map by G. DELISLE, Covens & Mortier, ±1730); Novissima Regnorum Portugalliae et Algarbiae (F. de Wit, Covens & Mortier, ±1720); Nova Regni Hispaniae/ Nova Italiae Descriptio (2 maps by G. DELISLE, Covens & Mortier, ±1720); Dominii Veneti in Italia (fold. map, F. de Wit, Covens & Mortier, ±1720); Estats de l'Eglise et de Toscane (in 2 parts, Covens & Mortier, ±1720); Le Royaume de Naples/ Partie Merionale du Royaume de Naples (2 maps, Covens & Mortier, ±1720); Carte de l'Isle et Royaume de Sicile (map by G. DELISLE, Covens & Mortier, ±1730); Carte de l'Isle et Royaume de Sicile (map by G. DELISLE, Covens & Mortier, ±1730); Insula Corsica (Covens & Mortier, ±1720); Carte nouvelle de l'Isle et Royaume de Sardagne (map by N. SANSON, Covens & Mortier, ±1710); Le Royaume de Hongrie/ Carte Particuliere de la Hongrie/ Accurata Totius Archipelagi et Graeciae Universae Tabula (3 maps by G. DELISLE, Covens & Mortier, ±1730); Carte d'Asie (Covens & Mortier, ±1745); Carte de la Turquie de l'Arabie et de la Perse/ Carte de Perse (2 maps by G. DELISLE, Covens & Mortier, ±1730); Carte d'une Partie des Indes Orientales/ Carte d'une Partie de la Chine (2 maps by I. CONDET, Covens & Mortier, ±1745); Magnae Tartariae Tabula/ Carte d'Afrique/ Carte de la Barbarie de la Nigritie de la Guinée/ Carte de l'Egypte de la Nubie del' Abbissinie/ Carte du Congo et du Pays des Cafres (5 maps by G. DELISLE, Covens & Mortier, ±1730); Algemeene kaart van de Colonie de Kaap de Goede Hoop (fold map by F. VON BOUCHENROEDER, Covens & Mortier en Zoon, ±1800); Carte d'Amerique (map by I. CONDET, Covens & Mortier and sons, ±1800); L'Amerique Septentrionale (Covens & Mortier, 1757); Carte Generale des Treize Etats Unis de l 'Amerique Septentrionale (Covens & Mortier and sons, ±1800); L'Amerique Meridionale (fold. map, Covens & Mortier, 1757); Carte de la Terre Ferme du Perou, du Bresil et du Pays des Amazones/ Carte du Paraguay, du Chile, du Detroit de Magellan (2 maps by G. DELISLE, Covens & Mortier, ±1730) and Carte Generale de la Polijnesie Australe (Covens & Mortier and sons, 1808). SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XCVIII.
- Engr. title neatly torn along top of inner hinge; maps partly sl. (water)stained, mostly in upper margin; maps (irregularly) numbered in brown ink in contemp. hand; one map bound upside down. Corners worn; spine chafed and dam. at top and foot.
= Mostly conform w. Koeman II Le H1: this copy contains all maps mentioned except the extra map of the Crailo estate, and an additional two not mentioned by Koeman ("Nouvelle carte de Duché de Brabant" and "Nouvelle carte du Comté de Flandre"). A chronological list of Popes, Emperors and Kings of the most notable empires and kingdoms is also included in this copy. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XCIX.
- Tipped-in annots. by Van den Broek on upper pastedown; contents fine. Binding w. a few small rubbed spots. An attractive copy.
= Koeman II, Lu 1. A re-issue of the Tirion atlas; all maps still with his engr. address. Provenance: the collection A.M. van den Broek. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XCIX.