2806 - 3510 OLD and RARE BOOKS
= An extremely rare travel account of a voyage in 1803 and 1804 in South Africa by Augusta Uitenhage de Mist, daughter of J.A. van Uitenhage de Mist. Because the Dutch East India Company ceased to exist after 1795, the Cape Colony was reverted by the English (who took the colony in 1795) to the Dutch government after the Piece of Amiens (between England and France in 1801). The government at the time sought advice on the newly recovered colonies, who where placed in their hands after the demise of the VOC. The newly appointed Council of Asian affairs advised to split the Cape Colony from the Dutch Indies. The man who was mostly responsible for that advice was J.A. van Uitenhage de Mist and as a result he was appointed to reorganize the government of the Colony and act as a liaison between the government and the newly appointed governor and to conduct an exploration of the interior of the Cape Colony. He took his daughter Augusta on that exploration of which this "Relation" is the account. Johanna W.A. NABER, Onze eeuw (year 15,no.1): "(...) Dit in het Fransch gestelde journaal werd na den terugkeer van Augusta de Mist in het vaderland, en haar spoedig daarop gevolgd huwelijk met generaal A. Howen, in een klein aantal exemplaren gedrukt en uitgereikt aan enkele goede vrienden, waaronder de bekende schrijfster Barbara van Meerten-Schilperoort. Deze verkreeg tevens de vergunning om eene vertaling er van op te nemen in den 8sten jaargang, dien van het jaar 1835, van het door haar geredigeerde tijdschrift Pénélopé. Van de oorspronkelijke uitgave, die niet in den handel kwam, schijnt geen enkel exemplaar meer bekend te zijn". Augusta married the Prussian-Dutch general (Anton) Otto de Howen who was an accomplished draughtsman. With his or his son's Otto owner's entry on first blank. Howen sr. was probably responsible for this publication, because he cooperated with the printer/ publisher Dieudonne Gerard in the past (cf. Te Rijdt, Een generaal tekent Nederland, p.74/75 and ill. no.30). On the voyage, see also Johanna W.A. NABER, De reis van Augusta van Uitenhage de Mist door de binnenlanden van Zuid-Afrika (1803-1804) (p.369ff of Onze eeuw, year 15, no.1 (1915). With a manuscript caption on verso of the drawing: "maison de plaisance aux environs du Cap de Bonne Esperance que votre grandpère habitant quelques mois avant son depart pour l'Europe". SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXXXV.
- Yellowed; (sl.) foxed; bookblock nearly broken. Binding w. minor imperfections.
= Abbey, Travel 152. Roberts' first published series of views. "[Roberts] was like a kind of grey mirror; he gave the greatness and richness of things, and such height and space, and standing of wall and rock, as one saw to be true (...) one imagined serenely and joyfully, from the old drawings, the splendour of the aisles of Seville or the strength of the towers of Granada, and forgot oneself, for a time." (Abbey, quoting John Ruskin).
- Sl. yellowed; 19th cent. owner's entries on prelim. lvs. Binding sl. rubbed.
Arndt, J. Vier Bücher vom Wahren Christentum. Wernigerode, J.W. Mertens, 1699, (24),900,(4)p., contemp. vellum, narrow 8vo.
- Lacks frontisp.(?); underlining in col. pencil throughout. Vellum soiled.
AND 2 others, i.a. J. HOORNBEEK, Summa Controversiarum Religionis (...) (Colberg, 1676, contemp. overlapping vellum).
- Bookplate on upper pastedown; upper pastedown of 2nd vol. loose.
= The first Zeedemeester complete with 120 issues. An enlightened-Lutheran, 'venijnig' (dixit Buijnsters) Spectator, meant to create more consensus amongst preachers, but not seldom virulently criticising their own kind. Buijnsters, Bibliogr. 18e-eeuwse Spect. Tijdschr. 71. Rare, only 2 copies in NCC.
- Upper hinge broken; later endpapers; 6 leaves trifle waterstained in lower blank corner. Otherwise a fine copy.
= Provenance: letterpress presentation leaf bound in at front to "Den Heer J. Knupker, bij zijn vertrek uit het Instituut tot Onderwijs van Blinden door de Kweekelingen uit achting aangeboden."; bookplate of "David Koning" mounted on verso of title-p. with some (later) annots. in pen and ink on title stating (after the word "Zedekunst":) "door Jarig Jellles", (after the word "Staatkunde":) "door "Hendrik Glazenmaker", (after the word "Verstant":) "d. J.J." and finally after the word "Antwoorden":) "d. J.J." (probably suggesting the translators of the several parts of the text). Also with 2 crossed-out annots. in the same hand on the title-page (both illegible). Two other annots. In vague pencil on the title-p.: the owner's entry of David Koning in top margin of title and the words "te Hamburg" in lower margin below the words "Gedrukt in 't Jaar". The rare first Dutch edition. Van der Linde 23; Kingma/ Offenberg 25; Baruch de Spinoza 1677-1977, 27; cat. Wolf Collection, 380; cf. Knuttel 377 (latin ed.); Ebert II, 21613; Fürst III, 369d; Keyser 22. "Door de Staten van Holland 25 Juni 1678 verboden als "prophaen, Atheistisch ende blasphemant". (...) nog 83 jaar na het uitgeven van het boek werd den boekverkooper deze zware boete [fl. 300,-] opgelegd." (Knuttel). "In the same year in which Spinoza's Opera posthuma appeared, Jan Rieuwertsz also published a Dutch translation of the same work, done by Jan Hendriksz. Glasemaker. This carefully-prepared edition includes a version of the Ethica based on a manuscript which represents an earlier stage of the work than that used for the Opera posthuma. This Dutch translation was intended to make Spinoza's philosophy accessible to a broader public. Because of this accessibility, the translated work was forbidden on June 25, 1678." (Hertzberger, cat. Wolf Collection). SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXXXIV.
- Partly (sl.) yellowed/ browned; occas. waterst. in upper blank margin. Binding sl. stained and dustsoiled; calf dam. at board edges and lower corners.
= Bibl. Spinoza p.13; Van der Linde 402 (3rd ed. 1754); Bierens de Haan (1st ed. 1720). Main work by this follower of Descartes and opponent of Spinoza.
= Barbier IV, 241f; Van der Linde 63; cat. Wolf Collection, 335; Willems 1878 (note). "Stoppa (or Stouppe, or Stouppa, c.1620-1692), a Swiss Calvinist who had lived in England under Cromwell, moved to France upon the death of the Lord Protector; there he won the graces of Louis XIV. He took part in the French war of conquest in the Netherlands and wrote during this war the propagandistic, anti-Dutch book La Religion des Hollandais (1673), in which he attacked the diversity of philosophical and religious parties in Holland, particulary, however, Spinozism" (Exh. Cat. Herzog August Bibl.(1977), no.60).
BOUND WITH: Barthon de Montbas, J. Memoires (...), sur les affaires de Hollande. Cologne (Amst.), n.publ. (P. Marteau?), 1673, 58,26p.
= On 25 July 1673, De Barthon was hanged in absentia on the gallows at the Vijverberg in The Hague. Spinoza lived in the close vicinity of the Vijverberg at the Paviljoensgracht. According to a letter to the Prince of Condé (28 July) from Pierre-Alexandre Stoupe, the military governor of Utrecht, Spinoza either witnessed the execution of Barthon or got the news about it first-hand. Immediately upon his arrival in Utrecht, he informed his host Jean Baptiste Stoupe about the event in Holland.
- Occas. trifle foxed. Otherwise fine.
- Sl. worn along extremities.
Penn, W. No Cross, No Crown: a Discourse Shewing the Nature and Discipline of the Holy Cross of Christ; and that the Denial of Self, and daily bearing of Christ's Cross, is the alone Way to the Rest and Kingdom of God. Ibid., M. Hinde, 1771, 11th ed., (8),495,(5)p., contemp. calf. - AND 2 others.
- Thumbed and fingersoiled; occas. waterst. and sl. mouldy.
= Vols. 3-6 in the rare 2nd edition, not in the usual reference works. Lipperheide Ma9, Tiele 1065 and Landwehr, Dutch books with col. plates 447/448, all listing the 1st (1802-1807) and (supposedly) 2nd edition (1832-1837). "The first treatise on geographical anthropology" (Landwehr). A German transl. was published 1805-1809. The fine plates, all depicting ethnic types, are engr. by L. Portman after Jacques Kuyper.
- Lacks vol.5. Approx. 15 plates browned/ yellowed and/ or foxed; occas. trifle foxed. Foot of spine of 2 vols. sl. worn.
= Very fine early lithogr. views. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXXXV.
- Bookplate on upper pastedown; new endpapers. Paper over wooden boards dried and chipped; backstrip worn.
= De Buck 7692. Dutch translation of the Acta Synodi Nationalis (Dordr., 1620).
- Waterstained in lower corner throughout; bookplate on upper pastedown.
= Knuttel, Bibl. Ned. Kerkgesch. p.4f; De Buck 7692.
AND 1 other: Canones Synodi Nationalis Dordracenae. Introd. W. van Irhoven (Utr., 1752, contemp. (dam.) wr.).
- Bookplate on upper pastedown; occas. trifle foxed.
- Two library stamps on title-p.; 8 plates loose; almost all plates fine (some a bit yellowed or with fold in blank margin); the 3 (loose) lvs. of the panoramic view are sl. yellowed along margins. Paper over covers partly torn off; corners showing; board edges rubbed; foot of spine dam.
= Kat. Orn. Berlin 1884; Blackmer 1834: "The plates are engraved from drawings mainly by Giovanni Battista Borra who accompanied Wood and Dawkins on their journey to Syria"; Fowler 443. From the library of C. PLOOS VAN AMSTEL, with his bookplate and signature in pen on upper pastedown. Rare. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXXXVI.
- Pastedowns loose. = De Backer/ Sommervogel III, p.1045, 1.
- Occas. trifle yellowed. Upper joint split.
- Joints splitting; worn along extremities.
(Blackbourne, A.). The Confessional: or, a Full and Free Inquiry into the Right, Utility, Edification, and Success, of Establishing Systematical Confessions of Faith and Doctrine in Protestant Churches. Ibid., S. Bladon, 1767, 2nd ed., XLIII,(1),XCIII,(1),410p., contemp. gilt calf w. mor. letterpiece.
- Bookplates on upper pastedown.
AND 3 others, i.a. H. GROTIUS, De veritate Religionis Christianae (Oxf., 1675, engr. title. ill., contemp. calf, sm. 8vo. Binding badly dam.) and J. JEWEL, Apologia Ecclesiae Anglicanae (London, 1692, contemp. calf, 12mo. Rebacked).
- A very fine copy.
= Landwehr, Dutch Books w. Col. Plates 386 (also without p.19-22). The lithographs showing the facades of streets in The Hague (4 showing streets in Rotterdam). Very rare complete copy. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXXXVI.
WITH 2 duplicate prints of the Geldersche kade (Rotterdam) from the same panorama (both contemp. handcol. and "gommé" lithographs) and 2 extra contemp. (marbled) board portfolios for the same work.