2806 - 3510 OLD and RARE BOOKS
- Maps partly w. tear in inner margin or on fold(s) and occas. repaired; sl. waterstained at the beginning and end. Covers rubbed; one corner dam.; gilt on spine worn off.
= Gay 2808; Paulitschke 894; Tiele 174n. The first French edition, one year after publication of the orig. Dutch edition. The first detailed account of the West Coast of Africa and chief source for the knowledge of the Dutch slave-trade during the second half of the 17th century. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXXI.
- Without books III and IV. First title w. crossed-out owner's entry/ libr. stamp on recto/ verso; lacks first free endpaper.
= De Backer/ Sommervogel III, 1952.
- Most plates taken from another copy (sl. smaller and attached to later stubs); some plates w. (closed) tears; occas. (water)stained/ foxed. Top of spine frayed/ sl. worn.
= Nijhoff/ Van Hattum 6; Ekama 120; Hollstein XXXIII, 391 and 417-427 (Van de Velde); Hollstein XXIII, 2 and 3 (P.J. Saenredam); McMurtrie, The invention of printing 848; Bigmore/ Wyman I, 8 and II, 326; not in Carter/ Vervliet. Important work as the main early source for Laurens Jansz. Coster as inventor of the art of printing and for its typography with the alternating use of roman, gothic and civilité types. Our copy with an extra tipped-in full-length woodcut portrait of Laurens Jansz. Coster (taken from H. DE GROOT, Inleydinghe tot de Hollandsche rechts-gheleerdheydt (Haarlem, 1641). The book is also valued for being one of the finest Dutch town descriptions with beautiful etchings by Jan van de Velde II.
- Lacks the fold. map; partly (heavily) waterstained and soiled.
= Ekama 721; Landwehr, Dutch Books w. Col. Plates 352. Contains views of "Duin en Daal", "De nieuwe Brouwerskolk", "Het Slot van Heemstede" and "Beverwijk".
- About 20 plates sl./ trifle foxed. Flimsies foxed as usual. Joints sl. rubbed. A good/ fine copy.
= Ekama 928; Cat. Harlemia illustrata p. 55/56. One of the rarest and finest 19th cent. books on Haarlem and surroundings, mainly depicting stately homes, often not existing any more. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXXII.
- Corners and backstrip sl worn. Otherwise fine.
= Ekama 533; Cat. Harlemia illustrata 519-585: "Éen van de voor Haarlem belangrijkste prentseries". SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXXII.
- Yellowed. = Nijhoff/ Van Hattum 180.
BOUND WITH: Idem. Een Kleine Chronyke Ende Voorbereidinge van de Afkomste ende 't vergroten van de Dorpen van Graft en de Rijp (...). Ibid., iidem, 1710, 47,(1)p., engr. plan on p.4.
- Sl. browned throughout.
BOUND WITH: Coleveldt, C.A. Bedenckingen Over Het Droogh maken Van de Haerlemmer ende Leydse Meer (...) Tegen 't Haarlemmer Meer-Boek van Jan Adriaanen Leeghwater. Leyden, Joh. van Abkoude, 1727, 27,(1)p. - BOUND WITH: Velsen, C. Aanmerkingen over de tegenwoordige staat van de Haerlemmer Meer, Waar in wert aangetoont hoe noodzakelyk die moet worden drooggemaakt. Leyden, D. Goetval, 1727, 40p., 1 fold. engr. plate.
= The first edition of Van Velsen's work.
- Fol.13 replaced with manuscript leaf w. text in 19th cent. hand w. 2 mounted drawings); 2 sections of frontisp. torn off (restored); first 28 lvs. waterst./ (sl.) browned; 2nd half partly sl. wormholed and occas. sl. waterst. (mostly) in blank margin(s). Binding worn/ dam.
= Considered (one of) the best and most critical edition(s). Pijper, Martelaarsboeken, p.53: "Gysius wijdde aan zijne uitgaaf eene uitnemende zorg en verbeterde vele fouten, die waren ingeslopen. De fraaie foliant met platen bekoorde zelfs Sepp, die anders van geïllustreerde martelaarsboeken afkeerig was".
- Bookplate on upper pastedown; first part sl. (finger)soiled along edges. Binding sl. worn along edges.
= Pijper, Martelaarsboeken, p.34-72.
- Without the 2nd vol.; vol.1 upper hinge broken and bookblock loosening; 3 plates frayed/ restored along outer margin; vol.3 lacks engr. title and htitle; 3 prelim. lvs. loose; occas. repairs; vol.4 (crossed out) owner's entry on first blank/ htitle; all vols. occas. (sl.) water-/ inkstained/ soiled. Vol.1 and 3 leather over boards heavily worn; rebacked and lack clasps; vol.4 spine-ends clumsily restored/ dam.
= De Backer/ Sommervogel IV, p.185f; Cordier BJ p.379; Alt-Japan-Kat. 647; Sabin 31115; Landis III, p.232. Containing the history of christening in i.a. Africa, Brazil, China, Florida. A large part of the work is devoted to the missions and martyrs in Japan and America. The plates depicting horrendous torturing, portraits of various saints, priests and natives.
- Frontisp. browned/ dam. (doubled); contents occas. sl. (water)stained, mostly in blank margins. Ticket on frontcover.
= The "prototype" of all Dutch arcadian novels, interspersed with many interesting articles on witchcraft, magic, Dutch history, East Indies, Dutch folklore etc. The nice plates include a view of Batavia. Mateboer 87; Buisman 774; Waller 691; De Vries 19; Scheurleer, Liedboeken p.159.
= BMN I, p.152. The first Dutch edition of this treatise on dreams and somnabulism, first published in Weimar, 1784.
- Bookplate on upper pastedown; lacks first free endpaper; foxed. Binding worn along extremities.
Fortsetzung von David Cranzens Brüder-Historie. Ibid., Brüdergemeinen, 1791, (8),390,(42)p., contemp. boards.
- Bookplate on upper pastedown.
- Bookplate on upper pastedown.
Predigten, gehalten in London, bey Errichtung der Missions-Societät, am 22sten, 23sten und 24sten Sept. 1795 (...). Barby, Brüdergemeinen, 1797, (2),XXXIII,(3),504p., sl. later (worn) boards.
- Bookplate on first free endpaper; tiny wormhole in blank margin of first 20p. Binding sl. worn.
- Contents occas. cut short. Lacks final free endpaper.
Comenius, J.A. Kurz-gefasste Kirchen-Histori der Böhmischen Brüder. Schwabach, J.J. Enderes, 1739, (40),468,(28)p., later hmor.
- Sl. yellowed. Backstrip sl. worn.
- Bookplate on upper pastedown; lacks first free endpaper. Binding sl. worn.
Der Brüder-Gemeinen tägliches Hand-Büchlein für das Jahr nach Gottes unsers Herrn Geburt 1758. Ibid., n.publ., 1757, without pagination, contemp. limp boards, sm. 8vo.
- Sm. stamp on title.
AND 4 eighteenth cent. works on the Herrnhuter Gesang-Buch (all incomplete).
- Foxed; bookplate on upper pastedown. Binding worn along extremities.
Loretz, J. Ratio disciplinae unitatis fratrum a.c. Oder: Grund der Verfassung der Evangelischen Brüder-Unität. Augsburgischer Confession. Ibid., idem, 1789, (12),356p., contemp. boards.
- Small stamp and owner's entry on title.
- Lacks first free endpaper. Lacks letterpiece.
Risler, J. Leben August Gottlieb Spangenbergs, Bischofs der evanglischen Brüderkirche. Ibid., P.G. Kummer, 1794, (20), 516p., engr. frontisp. portrait, contemp. (sl. worn) hcalf. - AND 1 other.
- Bookplate on verso frontwr.; contemp. owner's entry on title.
Die Geschichte unsers Herrn und Heilandes Jesu Christi aus den vier Evangelisten zusammengezogen. Barby, H.D. Ebers, 1769, (20),270p., contemp. boards.
- Rebacked w. use of modern paper; foxed.
AND 5 others (19th cent.) publications on the Herrnhuters.


































