2806 - 3510 OLD and RARE BOOKS
- Gilt on spines partly rubbed off; mor. letterpieces partly worn; foot of spine vol. 1 chipped; upper joints of all three vols. starting. Contents fine.
= SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LV.
- Lacks 2 plates (no. 3 and 19); first plate a few vague folds and a vague stain in lower margin; text leaves occas. sl. frayed in blank margins and partly vaguely waterstained in upper margin (not affecting the plates!). Binding worn along extremities (corners dam.).
= The plates are all printed in strong impressions. Interesting variant of the copy listed by F.M. 2301: all but 4 plates (from no.5 onwards) numbered one number lower in the plate than in F.M.: 5 (= F.M. 6), 6 (= 7) etc., suggesting that this is an early version of the rare first edition, before the numbering of the plates had become definite. See also Hollstein 1-19. The spectacular plates show the artistic talents of Van der Heide Senior, who was not only a wellknown painter, but also a gifted inventor. The book describes and illustrates several fires in Amsterdam during 1652-1684, and the implements used before and after the introduction of the author's new hose-pump. The fire fighting classic, rarely found in the first edition. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LV.
- Fold. view doubled and partially damaged; final few lvs. loose(ning). Corners crudely repaired; binding dam. due to acid-biting; burn (?) spots on both covers.
= D'Ailly 63. On the binding: Storm van Leeuwen II, p.98.
- Folds of fold. view of the Koepelkerk partly strengthened on verso and sl. split at intersection of folds in centre of upper section.
= D'Ailly 63. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LVI.
- Very fine copy.
= Nijhoff/ Van Hattum 252; Tiele 876; Sabin 64002; Alden & Landis II, 611/91; Chavanne 116. First edition of the earliest history and description of the city of Amsterdam, of great influence on similar publications of later date. But at least as important for the incorporated extensive accounts of Dutch maritime trade and early Dutch exploration and navigation ±1594-1611. It for instance contains the famous report of Willem Barentsz' voyages to the Arctic region in search of a North-East passage to Asia (1594-1597), derived from De Veer's Diarium nauticum as well as from Van Linschoten's Diarium, illustrated with 8 textengravings. For the earliest reports of the Dutch explorations of Asia, including the famous voyage of Corn. de Houtman as well as for the descriptions of the Moluccas (i.a. of Banda & Ternate), Cape of Good Hope, Madagascar, the Coast of Guinee (etc.), the chapters 24, 25 and 26 (p.144-218) are of the greatest importance. The fine engravings in the text, starting with no.17 to no.49, include early maps and views of Madagascar, Banda and Indonesia (i.a. Java, Bantam and Bali), and of its flora and fauna. The Dutch edition was published three years later in 1614. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LVI.
- Partly w. waterstain in outer margin. = Dekkers p.147 (2nd ed. 1656 only).
Le Moine de L'espine. J. De koophandel van Amsterdam, naer alle gewesten der waereld. Eene verhandeling van de waren en koopmanschappen (...) vergelykingen der munten, maten en gewigten (...) wisselbank, beurs en korenbeurs (...) loon der makelaers (...). Ed. I. Le Long. Rott., J. Bosch etc., 1780, 9th ed., 3 vols., (10),662; (6),543; (6),388,(58)p., engr. frontisp., 5 fold. letterpress tables, contemp. unif. boards w. paper letterpress letterpiece.
- Without vol.4; bindings of vol. 1 and 2 dam. and covers loose; vol. 3 binding worn; spine-ends worn/ dam.
= Nijhoff/ Van Hattum 311. Copy with more than 120 extra plates compared to the binder's instructions at the end of vol.3. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LVII.
- A very fine LARGE PAPER COPY, with the plates printed on heavy paper. Vol. 2 lacks as usual p.181-182; sl. foxed/ yellowed. Corners showing; joints rubbed. 't Verheugd Amsterdam without the plates, text only. A fine and attractively bound set.
= Nijhoff/ Van Hattum 311. As often without the fourth volume published 21 years after the third volume.
- Hinges weak; map and plans sl./ trifle stained. Lacks backstrip; paper over boards loosening/ partly torn off.
= Contains a curious circular map of a major part of the Netherlands. On the plans of Amsterdam: Hameleers 140 and 141.
- A few sm. inkstains; contemp. owner's entry on upper endpaper. Sl. dam. spot in overlapping vellum at top of outer margin.
= Contains 12 chapters on the various aspects/ the use of language by various authors, i.a. Thomas Hayne, Meric Casaubon, Abraham Gibelius, Heinrich Kipping, Paul Sleevogt and Petrus Holmius. Rare.
BOUND WITH: Heeser, J. Observationes philologico-theologiae In omnes Voces Chaldaicas Et multas Hebraicas Veteris Testamenti (...). Amst., Janssonius-Waesbergius, 1714, 2nd ed., (32),529,(71)p.
- Fine copy. = Rare.
- New endpapers; bookplate on upper pastedown; sl. soiled. Binding worn along extremities.
- Occas. sl. foxed and yellowed; sm. owner's stamp on title-p. Binding chafed and sl. worn.
AND 1 other in 2 (of 3) vols. (lacks vol. 3).
- Lacks 3 maps/ plans and 1 plate; waterstained throughout; new endpapers. Modern paper over boards; dam. at top of spine; backstrip worn. Sold w.a.f.
= Tiele 42; Cat. NHSM p.136 and cf. Cox I, p.49 (ed. London, 1740): "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 Chile and out of 900 men who left England on board more than 600 perished. (...) The primary object of the expedition was not attained, but by the capture of the Manila Galleon near China, Anson and the surviving members of his crew reached England much the richer. (...) Walter's account of the voyage is a model of what such literature should be."
Idem. Reize naer de Zuidzee, met het schip De Wager (...). Ondernomen in den Jaere 1740. Zynde een Vervolg op de Reize van den Heere George Anson. Ibid., idem, 1766, (36),212,(16)p., engr. title-vignette, headpiece and 7 (of 8) (fold.) plates by N. VAN DER MEER JR. after D. KUIPERS, contemp. gilt hcalf, 4to.
- Lacks 1 plate; waterstained throughout. Modern paper over boards; dam. at top of spine; backstrip worn.
= Tiele 43.
- Bookplate on upper pastedown; plates (sl.) foxed; final plates sl. waterst. in lower blank margin. Sl. rubbed/ worn along extremities.
= Rare work by Fleuret, professor of architecture at the École royale militaire in Paris, on his rediscovery of ancient Roman construction techniques and formulas for making artificial stone or concrete, and the methods of production used at his own manufactory in Pont-à-Mousson. Cf. Elton Engineering Books, Cat. 6 (1991), 211.
- Lacks 1 of 2 engr. titles and 1 plate; endpapers and some lvs. trifle foxed/ worn; ±10 lvs. w. marginal waterst. Vellum trifle soiled; sm. hole in spine.
= Early editions are very rare. Fowler 217; cf. Kat. Orn. Berlin 2595 (on the 1647 French ed.); Bierens de Haan 3389 (1682 French ed., publ. by Wetstein at Amsterdam).
- Bookblock sl. shaken; title cut sl. short in lower margin; a few lvs./ quires loosening; sl. foxed and fingersoiled; occas. waterst.; bookplates (i.a. of Marcellus Schlimovich) and clippings on upper pastedown/ first free endpaper. Vellum sl. stained worn; spine w. a few dam. spots.
= Adams A1676; BM Italian, p.40.
- Bookblock sl. shaken; sl. yellowed; title-p. and opposite leaf w. old annots. Binding sl. worn; corners showing.
= Ziegenfuss I, p.47: "Antoine Arnauld, Jansenist der Abtei Port-Royal (1612-1694). (...) A. ist Anhänger des Descartes und verfaßte zusammen mit Pierre Nicole unter fernerer Benutzung einer pascalschen Schrift die Logik von Port Royal (L'art de penser, 1662), die durchgängig von Descartes abhängig ist."
- Bookplate of Bibliotheca Seckendorfiana on upper pastedown; 18th cent. owner's entry on first free endpaper. Joints starting; dam. at foot of spine; lacks a clasp and catch.
- Sm. stamp of Heerlijkheid Rosendael on first free endpaper; sl. damp-/ waterstained throughout. Paper at top of spine partly worn off.
= Gouda Quint p.198. Rare.
- First vol.1 waterstained in lower inner corner throughout/ partly mouldst.; 2nd vol. lacks quires N-O; occas. sl. waterst. in blank margins; a few scattered owner's annots. Both vols. rubbed/ worn along extremities and w. ticket on spine.
= Landwehr, Romeyn de Hooghe as book illustrator 93 (1 portrait less); Van Someren I, p.242. Fine portraits of i.a. Menno Simons, David Joris, Martinus Luther, Theodorus Sutor and Paracelsus. A third volume was published in 1729.