2501 - 3523 OLD and RARE BOOKS
- Halftitle, title and frontisp. professionally restored and reattached; a few text-pages sl. stained; new endpapers. Professionally restored binding w. use of contemp. leather.
= LARGE PAPER copy. Landwehr VOC, 531; Cordier Bibl. Japonica, p.417f; Alt-Japan Katalog 717; DSB p.204ff; Howgego p.562; Henze III, p.3-6; cat. NHSM p.233; Tiele 584; Rouffaer/ Muller p.440; cf. Wellcome III, p.376. "Kaempfer's Werk ist das erste auf Autopsie und Quellenauswertung beruhende Grundwerk über Japan" (Henze); "Kaempfer arrived in Java in October 1689. The following year he was appointed to accompany the annual voyage to Japan of the East India Company as a physician. He remained in Nagasaki from September 1690 to October 1692 and twice accompanied the chief of the factory at Deshima on his embassy to Edo (now Tokyo). In Nagasaki he made a profound study of Japanese history, geography, customs, and flora. (...). The History of Japan (1727) [of which our copy is the translation] was for more than a century the chief source of Western knowledge of the country. It contains the first biography of Kaempfer, an account of his journey, a history and description of Japan and its fauna, a description of Nagasaki and Deshima; a report on two embassies to Edo with a description of the cities which were visited on the way; and six appendixes, on tea, Japanese paper, acupuncture, moxa, ambergris, and Japan's seclusion policy (...)." (DSB). SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXXXIV.
- Upper joint starting; frontcover partly sunned. Fine copy.
= Copy of the DELUXE EDITION on better paper with ample margins and splendidly coloured lithographs. Alt-Japan Katalog 1098; Cordier 490; Landwehr, Dutch Books w. Col. Plates 385; Tiele 357. The author spent 9 years in Japan (Deshima) in the 1820s and on his return to the Netherlands in 1829 he decided to exhibit his large collection of Japanese artefacts in the Koninklijke Kabinet van Zeldzaamheden. Four years later he published the present work to much acclaim. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXXXIV.
- Engr. title lacks sm. portion in lower margin; libr. stamp on title; lower hinge broken (but crudely repaired w. glue causing some staining on inner margins).
= BCNI 11081.
Taisne, P.F. Het leven van den H. Franciscus Borgie, eerste hertoghe van Gandien, Grande van Spagnien (...) En naderhant Religieus, en Derden Generael vande Societeit van Jesu. Ibid., M. Cnobbaert, 1671, (18),502,124,(9)p., engr. title, 6 plates, contemp. overlapping vellum.
- Libr. stamp on first free endpaper and htitle. = BCNI 12870.
ADDED: 2 others.
- First and final blanks and title-p. waterstained; title-p. and frontisp. loose.
= Cf. Scheepers I, 525 (ed. Leyden, 1728).
ADDED: 3 others, i.a. A.C. SLICHER, Weegschaal van het waare- en schijn- vermaak (Amst., 1786, engr. title, plate, contemp. hcalf w. gilt spine).
- Final lvs. sl. waterst.; 1 map w. glue stains on verso; "Tafel der Kapittelen in de Joodsche Histori vervat" (12p.) bound at the end of the 2nd part; bookplate of Dr. Alfred Platz on upper pastedown. Joints and spine-ends sl. dam./ restored; extremities sl. rubbed. Good copy.
= Klaversma/ Hannema 747; Van Eeghen/ Van der Kellen 396; Poortman II, p.235-240.
- Lacks 1 map (only a small part preserved); 1 plan w. tear; lvs. occas. thumbed/ frayed; each vol. w. owner's entry. Bindings worn/ occas. sl. dam.
= Van Eeghen/ Van der Kellen 396 (note p.591); Poortman II, p.246: "Marten Schagen vertelt in zijn voorbericht dat hem gevraagd werd de werken van Flavius Josephus in kleiner formaat uit te geven, zodat de mensen het mee op reis konden nemen. Schagen heeft aan dit verzoek gehoor gegeven, en het boek in zes of twaalf deeltjes uitgegeven"; cf. Klaversma/ Hannema 752-759.
- One leaf loose; occas. sl. (water)stained; title-p. sl. creased and sl. frayed along outer margin. Vellum turn-ins loosening; pastedown loose.
= Poortman IIb, p.223: "In het jaar 1626 gaf Jan Evertsz. Cloppenburch opnieuw de werken van Flavius Josephus, gevolgd door de boeken van Egesippus, uit. Het is een getrouwe kopie van de uitgave van het jaar 1611, ook wat het titelblad betreft. (...) Deze uitgave [1636] is identiek aan de uitgave van 1626. De druk van 1636 gaf Cloppenburch opnieuw uit in compagnie met verschillende boekhandelaren. De uitgave komt voor met zes verschillende adressen (...). De uitgaven met het adres van Hans Walschaert, Jan Jansz. en Broer Jansz. hebben hetzelfde titelblad (...)." Our copy is listed as no.2 by Poortman.
- Each vol. w. library stamps and owner's entries on prelim. lvs. and edges; pastedowns detached; some lvs. sl. (water)stained. Vellum sl. soiled. A good set.
= Poortman IIB, p.232f; Van Eeghen/ Van der Kellen 321; Klaversma/ Hannema 761.
- Lacks 4 plates.
= Fürst I, p.339; Poortman II, p.169; Klaversma/ Hannema 559ff; Van Eeghen/ Van der Kellen 350.
- Some foxing; verso first free endpaper w. crossed out owner's entry (?). Top of spine chipped; corners showing.
= Fürst II, p.235. Very rare pocket-size language manual.
= Fürst III, p.60; not in Freimann.
AND WITH: Bomble, C.J. [Greek:] Cheiragōsos ad Philippi Ouseel (...) Introductionem Geminam in Accentuationem Hebraeorum Metricam et Prosaicam. Ibid., idem, 1721, 23p., fold. table.
- Sl. fingersoiled/ stained and occas. waterst.; later endpapers; a few lvs./ quires at the end loose(ning). Vellum darkened and soiled.
- Poor binding: covers worn/ dam. and loose(ning); backstrip dam.
= From the library of French scholar and historiographer Etienne Baluze (1630-1718), with owner's entry "Stephanus Baluzius Tutelensis" on title-p. and with the stamp of the "Goudse Librije". Fürst III, p.88.
- With three library stamps on verso of title (i.a. "Burggrafen zu Dohna Bibliothek" and "Biblioth. Acad. Borussica Rhen."). Backstrip rubbed. Contents fine.
= Study on the treasures looted from the Second Temple in Jerusalem, as they are presented in the "Triumphal Procession" relief on the Arch of Titus in Rome. Fürst III, 150.
- The fold. plate sl. dustsoiled in lower (blank) corner and w. sm. closed tear on fold; first few lvs. trifle waterst. in blank margin.
= Landwehr, Dutch Books w. Col. Plates 354. Contains the map: "Kaart van het Katwijksche kanaal", ±22x37 cm. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXXXV.
- Two plates lack sm. portion at upper edges; occas. sl. yellowed (incl. a few plates); hinges sl. weak.
= Nijhoff/ Van Hattum 240.
- Lacks final leaf (binder's index); one plate loose(ning).
= Nijhoff/ Van Hattum 241. The second (= third) and best (enl.) ed.
- Bookplate on first free endpaper. = Van der Haar, Schatkamer K25.
Catechismus, ofte Onderwysinge in de Christelyke Leere (...). Amst., heirs H. vander Putte, n.d., 52p., contemp calf., sm. 4to.
- Interleaved copy w. extensive contemp. annots. in Dutch.
Pietersz., R. Enghe Poorte, Ofte de wegh der Saligheydt: Voor-ghestelt in geestlijcke meditation over eenige bysondere texten der Heyligher Schrift. Ibid., M.J. Brandt, 1628, 3rd ed., (16),464,(8)p., engr. title-vignette, contemp. hvellum w. modern boards, sm. 4to.
- New endpapers; lower inner margin trifle wormholed and waterstained. = Very rare.
AND 3 others.
- Occas. sl. foxed in blank margins; mostly fine. Uncut copy.
= Cat. Harlemia Illustrata 295-394; cf. Ekama 555 (ed. 1768). One of the finest books on 18th cent. Dutch stately homes, also of great importance for contemporary garden-architecture (the views also include detailed plans of the gardens).
- Upper hinge broken; one leaf loosely inserted; two identical engr. frontispieces reading "Tweede deel", with a sm. strip w. typeset "Eerste deel" tipped in on the first; occas. sl. dampst. in blank margins; owner's entry on upper pastedown. Top of spine sl. dam.; binding sl. worn.
= Cat. Harlemia Illustrata 295-394; cf. Ekama 555 (ed. 1768). One of the finest books on 18th cent. Dutch stately homes, also of great importance for contemporary garden-architecture (the views also include detailed plans of the gardens).
- Sm. tear in inner margin of fold. map; textp. occas. trifle foxed; otherwise contents fine. Spine-ends dam./ chipped; sm. dam. spot in upper joint; covers sl. rubbed along extremities.
= Cat. Harlemia Illustrata 295-394; cf. Ekama 555 (ed. 1768). One of the finest books on 18th cent. Dutch stately homes, also of great importance for contemporary garden-architecture (the views also include detailed plans of the gardens).








































