2047 - 2618 OLD and RARE BOOKS
- Binding rubbed. = With an extensive index and attractive views.
Witsen-Geysbeek, P.G. Tableau d'Amsterdam ou Guide des étrangers dans cette ville. Ouvrage nécessaire aux étrangers et même aux Amsterdamois, et où est indiqué tout ce qu'il y faut connoître et éviter. Ibid., L.A.C. Hesse, 1810, 3rd ed., VIII,280p., 1 fold. engr. map, 2 fold. plans and 7 plates, contemp. plain wr., sm. 8vo.
- Backstrip sl. dam. and strengthened w. scotch tape; covers sl. creased and worn.
= Contains a curious circular map of a major part of the Netherlands. On the plans of Amsterdam: Hameleers 140 and 141.
- Lacks htitle; verso of one plate stained; first free endpaper loosening. Upper joint split; frontcover chafed.
= Nijhoff/ Van Hattum 120.
- First blank loose. Fine copy.
- Part 1 and 2 partly waterstained in upper margin; foxed/ sl. browned. Joints starting; spine-ends dam.; covers chafed.
- Lacks 4 plates. Otherwise a good/ fine set. = Nijhoff/ Van Hattum 162.
AND 3 others, i.a. C. VAN DER VIJVER, Jaarboek der stad Amsterdam voor 1830/ 1833 (ibid., (1829/ 1832), 2 vols., 2 ident. engr. titles, orig./ contemp. limp boards).
- Ruststain in margin of final few leaves; large fold. plate some (closed) splts on folds. Good/ fine copy.
= D'Ailly 63. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXIV.
- Two bookpates on upper pastedown. A fine copy.
= Funck p.359. The best account of the so-called miracle of Amsterdam (1345). With dedication to Peter Paul Rubens (8p.).
- Pagination irregular, but complete. Bookplate on first free endpaper; occas. sl. yellowed and fingersoiled; upper hinge sl. weak.
= Nijhoff/ Van Hattum 202. Haitsma Mulier/ Van der Lem 340g.
- Bindings sl. worn; year 1846/ 1847 backcover loose.
- Backstrip loose(ning)
= Scarce. Huiskamp O91; Bodel Nijenhuis 1494; Van der Meulen I, p.127; Ki.la.ki.le. 446. Not in The Children's World of Learning and coll. Caljé-Van Gulik.
Wagenaar, J. Beschryving van Amsterdam verkort; gevolgd naar den heer Jan Wagenaar. Amst., J. Wessing, Willemsz. and J. van der Hey, 1788, new ed., (8),183[=185],(1)p., 8 engr. plates each w. 2 ills., contemp. plain boards, sm. 8vo.
- Joints splitting; backstrip sl. dam at top. = With (Dutch and French) prize to P.J. Duijskens (Amst., 1810).
- Occas. sl. yellowed and foxed. Bindings rubbed/ chafed; joints splitting.
= LARGE PAPER COPY. Nijhoff/ Van Hattum 311. As often without the fourth volume published 21 years after the third volume.
- One plate in vol. 2 loose and w. dam. margins (possibly from another copy). Bindings rubbed and sl. worn; joints splitting.
= Nijhoff/ Van Hattum 311. As often without the fourth volume published 21 years after the third volume.
- Boards later pasted over thin morrocco; top of spined worn (away)/ dam.
= Nijhoff/ Van Hattum 311. As often without the fourth volume published 21 years after the third volume. Extra illustrated copy with 54 extra plates.
- Hinges weak; some smudged scribbling on title-p.; 2 plates w. closed tear and some pink stains. Vellum sl. soiled.
= Bodel Nijenhuis 1467; Haitsma Mulier/ Van der Lem 516 ("wordt vaak toegeschreven aan de drukker van het werk"). Basically a very early city guide.
- Sl. yellowed. Binding rubbed; gilt partly worn off.
= Nijhoff/ Van Hattum 334. Bound with an extra partly handcol. map "Nieuwe kaart van het Baljuwschap van Amstelland (...)" (I. Tirion, 1749).
Idem. Amsterdamsche Buitensingel, Nevens de omleggende dorpen, opgeheldert door aanteekeningen over Veele voornaame Geschiedenissen (...). Ibid., A. van Huyssteen, 1738, 2nd ed., (36),304,(28)p., engr. frontisp., title-vignette, 3 (of 4) fold. views and 11 plates w. each 2 views, 1 plate, 1 large headpiece, contemp. hcalf.
- Lacks the portrait (as often) and 1 fold. view. Top of spine sl. dam.; paper over covers partly torn off.
= Nijhoff/ Van Hattum 332.
- Wrappers sl. creased and worn.
= Contains a curious circular map of a major part of the Netherlands. On the plans of Amsterdam: Hameleers 140 and 141.
- Fingersoiled/ sl. stained and yellowed/ agetoned throughout; frontisp. cut close to the borderline in upper edge. Binding sl. rubbed and worn.
= Nijhoff/ Van Hattum 350; Dünnhaupt 52,1: "Zesen versucht durch diese mit erstaunlicher Sachkunde verfaßte Topographie den Mitbürgern seiner Wahlheimat Amsterdam seinen Dank abzustatten."; Faber du Faur 824: "(...) a sort of 17th Century Baedeker, with excellent factual descriptions of the streets, embankments and buildings (...)". One of the nicest townbooks of Amsterdam, finely illustrated and rarely found complete. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXIV.
- First lvs. foxed/ creased and loosening. Top of spine dam.
WITH: a Dutch Bible (Amst., J. Hartgers, 1653, engr. title, contemp. blindst. calf over wooden covers, folio. Lacks all maps and plans; bookblock trimmed. Nevertheless rare edition).
- Very fine copy.
= Early French translation of Winckelmann's influential Geschichte der Kunst des Alterthums (first publ. Dresden, 1764-1767). Arntzen/ Rainwater H130: "An important book, sometimes called the first modern history of art. Now most useful for art historiography and for the study of all phases of the neoclassical movement (...)." Sander 2056.
- Partly water-/ dampstained and sl. yellowed. Binding rather heavily worn; joints splitting; portions of calf lacking; covers scratched and rubbed.
= Cf. Millard 14 and 15 (other editions).