- Lacks the portrait (as often); yellowed; foxed/ wormholed at lower inner margin at the beginning. Joints and spine-ends worn.
= Wing H809. Rare utopian work by political theorist James Harrington. Although initially censored by Oliver Cromwell, it was eventually published with a dedication to the same.
- A near fine copy with the following minor condition points: contemp. German owner's entry on first blank of vol.1 (dated 1758); the New Map of Georgia (...) trifle foxed; the map of the North Pole cut sl. short in upper margin (affecting the righthand part of the upper borderline and the page number); the map of the Whole Russian Empire cut trifle short (affecting the outer right borderline); several textpages have a tiny hole (size of 1 letter or less). Top of spines and joints professionally restored; covers w. some old scratches/ rubbed spots.
= Complete copy, with the maps and plates as listed at the end of vol.2. Provenance: Lord Eliock (bookplate on both upper pastedowns). Lavishly illustrated work w. fine plates and 22 detailed (mainly fold./ double-p.) large maps and charts, mostly by E. Bowen, with the various routes of the expeditions indicated, incl. the following: A New and Accurate Map of the World Drawn from the best Authorities (...); A Complete Map of the Southern Continent Survey'd by Capt. Abel Tasman; A New & Accurate Chart of the Western or Atlantic Ocean (...); A Correct Draught of the North Pole and of all the Countries hitherto Discovered, intercepted between the Pole and the Parallel of 50 Degrees; A New Map of Georgia with Part of Carolina, Florida and Louisiana and A New and Accurate Map of China, Drawn from Surveys made by the Jesuit Missionaries. Landwehr, VOC 261; Sabin 30483; Hill 775 and Cox I, p.10. Both vols. w. tipped-in identical letterpress "Catalogue of Books" advertising a.o. the present work; vol.1 w. a loosely inserted separately issued publication on "An act for giving a publick Reward to such Persons or Person, His Majesty's Subject or Subjects, as shall discover a North West Passage through the Hudson's Streights, to the Western and Southern Ocean of America" (London, Thomas Baskett, 1745, (6)p. (numb.(2),483-486)). SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE CXIII.
- Small stamp on title; 19th cent. owner's entry on first free endpaper. Upper joint splitting.
BOUND WITH: 7 others by the same, all publ. by M. Cnobbaert, 1666-1672: Eerste Vervolgh vande Redelycke Handelinghe (1672); Dordrechtshen Predikant nu Sieck-Meester ende Ziel-Trooster gheworden over eenen armen sieken Uyl die in Doots Noodt light (1671); Sots-Caproen met verscheyden Bellen Behanghen ende gheschoncken voor een nieuw iaer aen Arent Montanus Gheuschen Woorden-dienaer tot Schoonhoven (1668); Versoeninghe vande Menschen met Godt door het H. Sacrificie der Misse (1671); Disput van Martinus Lutherus met den Duyvel Over het H. Sacrificie der Misse (1666) and Triomph-Boogh ter eere Van 't Alderheylighste-Sacrament van Mirakel te Brussel opgherecht Teghen de lasteringhen ende tot Schaemte vande Sectarisen (1671).
- Waterst. in upper outer corner; occas. trifle foxed; owner's entry on first free endpaper.
= Springer/ Klassen 8595. Abraham Heems was a Mennonite silk merchant.
- Lacks both portraits; sl. browned/ foxed (mostly in blank margins); a few owner's annots.
- Sl. waterstained in upper (blank) margin; occas. (sl.) foxed/ browned. Top of spine dam.
= With 2 extra plates from Oudheden en gestichten van het rechte Zuid-Holland en van Schieland. Van Doorninck/ De Kempenaer, p.249; Haitsma Mulier/ Van der Lem 222.
Idem. Oudheden en gestichten van het rechte Zuid-Holland en van Schieland (...). Dutch transl. H.V.R. (= H. van Rijn). Leyden, C. Vermey, 1719, (20),547,(17)p., contemp. (unif. w. the preceding) vellum.
- Without the plates (bound with in the preceding work). Owner's stamp on title-p.
= Van Doorninck/ De Kempenaer, p.249; Haitsma Mulier/ Van der Lem 222.
= A fine copy of this rich visual source of the immense prosperity of the Dutch colonial empire in the middle of the 18th cent. The views show their main cities, their houses and settlements in the Dutch East Indies, India, Sri Lanka, Japan and South Africa. Interestingly, the perspective of the views of the towns and houses is carefully indicated on the views in the captions (stating for instance the "Ein Prospect aus S. Hoch Edelheit des Hn General Gouverneurs Spiel-haus in Batavia, nach der so genanten Ancker-werff u. den Blaue Berge zu, gezeichnet"). The architect and draughtsman Johann Willhelm Heydt was born in Amboina in 1702, where his father was the Opperhoofd of the Island Haroekoe. "A masterpiece of German engraving of the highest significance for the study of the topography of Batavia and its environs" (Bastin/ Brommer p.1). "(..). an extensive and highly important document with regard to the early town planning and general topography of Jakarta in the first half of the 18th century." (Haks/ Maris, p.120f). Landwehr, VOC 469; Cat. NHSM I, p.241; Mendelssohn I, p.270. Rare. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE CXIV.
- Sl. yellowed and foxed throughout; tear (±7cm.) in title to the 2nd part; "Asiae descriptio" cut short in upper margin w. some loss of the image; engr. heraldic bookplate on upper pastedown.
= Sabin 31655. On the map "Americae nova descriptio": Tooley, The mapping of America, p.115 no.12; Burden 379. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE CXIII.
- Used copy: contemp. annots. and underlining in text throughout; partly (sl.) wormholed and waterst. Binding worn and wormholed; backstrip loosening.
= Rare, not in the usual reference works.
ADDED: a Greek ed. of the Old Testament (Leipsic, C. Tauchnitz, 1824).
- A few pages sl. browned, otherwise fine. Joints split(ting); lacks portion of backstrip.
- Fold. bookplate on upper pastedown; upper hinge weak; sl. agetoned. Binding chafed and worn; backstrip dam.
= Willems 1048; Rahir 1050; Ebert 9875 ("schön und selten"). First Elzevier edition, second variant listed by Willems. With a nice allegorical title.
- Upper left corner of fold. plan of The Hague torn off (w. loss of 2,5x3,5 cm. of image)); 2 plans w. closed tear; halftitle of vol.4 loose; 2 fold. maps partly browned on folds (one map also lacks part of outer frayed and browned degree border); map of the Maas and Merwede brown stains. Vol.6 frontcover sl. stained; vol.5 lower outer corner sl. burnt.
= Contains maps of i.a. Haarlemmermeer, Rijnland, Gooiland, Delftland, Schieland/ Krimperwaard, Amstelland and Kennemerland and (profile) views of i.a. Amstelveen, Amsterdam, Delft, Gouda, Haarlem, Rotterdam and The Hague. Apart from plans of all the large towns in Holland, a number of plans of smaller cities are included, i.a. Enkhuizen, Geertruidenberg, Gorinchem, Medemblik, Purmerend, Schiedam and Schoonhoven.
- Lacks 4 maps; one plan loose (Alkmaar). Bindings trifle rubbed; traces of ticket at top of spines; frontcover of the final vol. trifle stained. A good/ fine set.
= Contains maps of i.a. Haarlemmermeer, Rijnland, Gooiland, Delftland, Schieland/ Krimperwaard and Kennemerland and (profile) views of i.a. Amstelveen, Amsterdam, Delft, Gouda, Haarlem, Rotterdam and The Hague. Apart from plans of all the large towns in Holland, a number of plans of smaller cities are included, i.a. Enkhuizen, Geertruidenberg, Gorinchem, Medemblik, Purmerend, Schiedam and Schoonhoven.
= Important and highly esteemed annual, based on eye-witness accounts, and giving a wealth of information on the Netherlands incl. its colonies and Europe. The printer and publisher P. Casteleyn was the founder of the world's oldest (and still existing) newspaper, the "Oprechte Haarlemsche Courant".
WITH loosely inserted 2 issues of other 17th/ 18th cent. newspapers: HAEGSCHE MERCUR. No.9. Den 2 Sept: 1699 ((4)p. Possibly a later reprint) and GAZETTE DE LA HAYE DU VENDREDI 4 MAY. L'An 1764, Numro 54 (1 fold. leaf, (4)p.).
- Both vols. owner's entry/ annot. on first blank. Vol.1 upper joint splitting. Fine copy.
= Leendertz 128; Van Eeghen/ Van der Kellen 386; Haitsma Mulier/ Van der Lem 235b and De Buck 2301 (both listing other editions).
- Traces of removed bookplate on upper pastedown. A fine copy. = Unger 177; Leendertz 132.
- Occas. sl. foxed. Vellum sl. soiled. Otherwise a fine copy.
= Leendertz 1a: "Deze titel staat op bladz. 3 van een verder onbedrukt vel, dat voor de uitgave van 1671 is ingevoegd. Niet alleen het gegraveerde titelblad, maar ook de fransche titel van 1671 is gebleven. De uitgevers van den derden druk der Historiën hebben dus het restant der uitgave van 1671 overgenomen en met een voorgevoegden titel als het tweede deel der volledige Werken opnieuw in den handel gebracht. Tegelijkertijd werd nu ook voor de nog niet verkochte exemplaren der Historiën op dezelfde wijze een vel voorgevoegd om er het eerste deel der Werken van te maken."; cf. Leendertz 126a note, mentioning the use of the third edition of Hooft's Neederlandsche Histoorien as the first part of Hooft's Werken; Landwehr 323.
- Occas. sl. soiled/ waterst. in margins; vol. 1 one plate sl. inkstained and lacks portion of lower corner. All vols. spine-ends sl. dam.; 2 vols. joints splitting. A good set.
= Comprises: I. Nederlandsche Historien, Seedert de Ooverdraght der Heerschappye van Kaizar Karel den Vyfden op Koning Philips zynen Zoon, Tot het einde der Landtvooghdye des Graven van Leicester (1703, 4th ed., 2 vols., engr. frontisp. by J. VAN MUNNICHUYSEN after G. DE LAIRESSE, 2 ident. title-vignettes, 25 double-p. plates/ views by i.a. J. LUYKEN, 1 full-p. plate, 24 portraits by i.a. A. VAN SIJLVELT). Leendertz 128; Van Eeghen/ Van der Kellen 386; Haitsma Mulier/ Van der Lem 235b and De Buck 2301 (both listing other editions).
II. Mengel-Werken, Ten deele nooit te vooren gedrukt (1704, 1st ed., engr. frontisp., title-vignette, full-p. portrait of Hendrik de Groote and 30 emblematical textills.). Leendertz 2.
III. Alle de werken van C. Corn. Tacitus, In 't Hollandtsch vertaalt door den Heer P.C. Hooft (1704, 1st ed., engr. title-vignette, 8 fold. plates by I. MULDER, 14 portraits by A. VAILLANT). Leendertz 140; Geerebaert CXXXVII 5.II.b.
Leendertz 128a: "In 1704 heeft men de toen uitgegeven Mengelwerken en Tacitus met de Ned. Historiën van het vorige jaar tot ééne uitgave vereenigd, door er een gemeenschappelijken titel voor te plaatsen." Our copy without this title-p.
- Each vol. w. bookplate of J. Hooft Graafland on upper pastedown; occas. (sl.) foxed/ soiled. Bindings (sl.) worn along extremities; corners showing; paper over covers occas. (sl.) chafed. A good set.
= Claes 165.