- Without the often lacking 4th vol. published in 1769. Sl. browned/ foxed (plates worse). Bindings rubbed along extremities.

= Kunst op schrift 243-245; Arntzen/ Rainwater H129.

- Waterstained in lower margin/ lower outer corner and upper outer corner (not affecting views etc.). Top of spine chipped; later faux morocco over covers.

= Published in a series of 21 vols. on various travels. Tiele 103; Cat. NHSM, p.108.

- Lacks engr. frontisp., 2 maps and 7 plates (1 plate lacks outer right panel); contents partly foxed/ soiled. Binding in poor condition. Sold w.a.f.

= 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."

- Text not collated. Vol.1 lacks 5 plates, engr. frontisp. and (at least) first 4 textlvs.; vol.2 quires/ pages and plates loose (lacks backstrip); a few plates dam.; contents occas. (water)stained. Sold w.a.f.

= 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."

- A good/ fine set: occas. trifle foxed/ fingersoiled (vol. 5 occas. sl. worse); 1 text leaf in vol. III outer margin restored. Covers sl. rubbed and scratched; bindings professionally restored.

= Vol. 4 EXTRA ILLUSTRATED w. a plan of Batavia and 2 views by Mathias de Sallieth after Hendrik Kobell (1779). 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 two 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 LVIII.

- Titile-p. lacking (as usual?); textpages partly foxed/ yellowed; all maps fine, but occas. w. some false creases along central fold. Binding worn/ dam. along extremties.

= Poortman/ Augusteijn 35; Laor 74-84, stating that this is a composite atlas of the maps found in W.A. Bachiene, Heilige Geographie (...) (Utr., G.T. and A. van Paddenburg, 1765-1768). All maps have an engr. line in top right corner indicating where the map should be bound in the bible.

- Vellum sl. duststained. Otherwise a very fine copy.

= Koeman 1, Bl 57. SEE ILLUSTRATIONS PLATE LVIII and LIX.

- Map 17 lacks sm. portion of blank margin; otherwise the maps are fine; lacks first free endpaper; endpapers incl. pastedowns foxed; a few lvs. trifle (water)soiled in blank margins. Gilding on backstrip fading; spine sl. dam.

= SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LX.

- A few maps waterst. and w. restored margins; some creases and folds; occas. sl. foxed. Frontcover loose(ning); backstrip worn off.

= Contents: 1. "Neue Welt-Karte (...)" (1784); 2. "Generalkarte von Europa" (Schneider und Weigelschen Kunst- und Buchhandlung, 1799); 3. "Regnorum Hispaniae et Portugaliae Tabula generalis (...)" (1782); 4. "Tres nouvelle carte de la France (...)" (1791); 5. "Regnorum Magnae Brittanniae et Hiberniae Mappa Geographica" (1749); 6. "Charte der Batavischen Republik" (Weimar, im Verlage des Geogr. Instituts, 1804); 7. "General Charte vom Königreich Dänemark (...)" (1789); 8. "Scandinavia complectens Sveciae, Daniae et Norvegiae Regna (...)" (1776); 9. "Charte des Russischen Reich und die von den Tatarn (1786); 10. "Charte von dem Königreich Preussen (...)" (1798); 11. "General Charte von Ungarn (...)" (1796); 12. "Totius Danubii cum adjacentibus Regnis (...) Novissima Tabula" (1766); 13. "Italia in suos Status hodiernos divis (...)" (1799); 14. "Helvetia tredecim Statibus Liberis (...)" (1803); 15. "Der Ober Rheinische Kreis" (1786); 16. "Der Chur Rheinische oder Nieder Rheinische Kreis" (1789); 17. "Charte über die sämtlichen zum Westphaelischen Kreis gehörige Länder" (1802); 18. "Circuli Saxonici Inferioris (...)" (1784); 19. "Generalkarte vom Obersächsischen Kreise" (Schneider und Weigelschen Kunst- und Buchhandlung, 1801); 20. "Charte von America nach astronomischen Bestimmungen (...)" (1796); 21. Charte von Africa, nach astronomischen Beobachtungen (...)" (1797); 22. "Karte vom fünften Erdtheil oder Polynaesien-Inselwelt oder Australien od. Südindien" (1795); 23. "Charte von Asien" (1793).

- Engr. title trifle fingersoiled and sl. cut short in top margin (just affecting the first 2 letters of "Zak-Atlas". Otherwise very fine.

= Not in Koeman. Very rare. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LX.

- Text part occas. sl. foxed and yellowed (worse at the beginning). Binding worn; covers sl. cracking.

= Koeman, Sep 1. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXI.

- Both title-p. age-toned and soiled.

= Partly w. results in old pen and ink in margins. For a thorough overview of the important collections of C. Ploos van Amstel on the basis of the auction catalogues of his estate, see at large T. Laurentius, J.W. Niemeijer and G. Ploos van Amstel, Cornelis Ploos van Amstel 1726-1798, kunstverzamelaar en prentuitgever (Assen, 1980, p.3-103, Ploos' verzamelingen).

- Rather worn copy: first and final few lvs. duststained; title-p. w. owner's entry(?) blotted out in black permanent marker, also staining 2 following lvs.; frayed edges.

= Johannes Luzac (1746-1807) was a professor of Greek language and philology and Dutch history at Leyden University. Rare.

- Engr. title, (h)title and first textleaf (heavily) frayed; 5th div. title and a few textlvs. lower outer blank corner torn off; partly (sl.) waterst.

- First part lacks htitle, engr. title, portrait by P. VAN GUNST and (prob.) one plate; some maps/ plates w. imperfections/ (sl.) dam.; new endpapers. Rebacked; corners restored.

= Landwehr, RdH as bookillustrator 100 (note).

- Lacks vol. 8; all vols. w. owner's entry on htitle or first textp.; one vol. later list of contributors(?) pasted on first free endpaper; contents partly (sl) browned/ foxed. Most vols. joints split(ting), bindings (sl.) worn along extremities; letterpieces partly lacking.

= Weekly patriotic periodical, which ran from 1783 until the Prussian invasion in 1787. The tone of this periodical was a bit more impulsive and provocative than that of the periodical Post van den Neder-Rhijn which appeared around the same time. Only three title-vignettes were designed due to the controversy around them, even leading to a court case in 1784 (Knuttel 20468, note). Contains no. 1-368, 421-482.

- Lacks general title and final 5 parts.

= Rare series of fictional conservations on the state of the nation, from a (moderate) patriotic point of view.

- Joints trifle rubbed. Otherwise fine. = Cohen/ de Ricci, p.125; Cordier, 128.

- A few lvs. w. some stains; yellowed; bookplate on upper pastedown. Spine-ends chipped; covers sl. scratched.

= This edition includes the first folio publication of The Two Noble Kinsmen, attributed to John Fletcher and William Shakespeare. The play was first published in quarto format in 1634 but not included in any of the of the folio editions of Shakespeare's works or in the first folio of Beaumont and Fletcher's works (1647). This second edition includes eighteen additional plays which did not appear in the first folio edition.

- Lacks one view (Scherpenheuvel); partly wormholed in inner (blank) margin. Backstrip cracking and sl. worn; corners bumped.

= Contains profile views of Charleroi and Gelder, and plans of i.a. Antwerp, Bruges and Brussels.