- Ad 1: Lacks 5 plates; occas. sl. (water)stained in blank margin. Ad 2: lacks 3 plates; frontisp. cut sl. short; occas. foxed in blank (inner) margins.
= Bierens de Haan 522 (ed. 1694). The famous universal method of perspective by Abraham Bosse (1602-1676). Cat. Spelman, The complete artist 186 (other ed.): "Bosse was the first professor of perspective at the Academie Royale and "one of the last great defenders of geometrically correct perspective construction". His unacknowledged appropriation of his fellow academician Desargue's work, in attempting to formulate a complete theory of painting based upon the principles of scientific perspective, led to his dismissal from the Academie." The first Dutch edition of this influential work.
- Upper hinge weak; later endpapers; sl. foxed. Backstrip rubbed; lacks letterpiece. = Kunst op Schrift 1211.
- Frontisp. to the 2nd work sl. trimmed. Vellum stained. = Kunst op schrift 4-6.
- Frontisp. creased in lower margin and splitting along part of the platemark (strengthened on verso); 2 fold. plates reattached to textp. (1 fold. plate w. brown glue stains along left border; 1 fold. plate splitting on folds and w. (closed) tear in inner blank margin; owner's entries on title-p.; sl. fingersoiled mainly in lower margin/ corner margin almost throughout. Vellum (geen) soiled and upper joint split.
= The first edition of "Goeree's most important contribution to the theory of proportions" (Bolten p.214).
BOUND WITH: Idem. d'Algemeene Bouwkunde, Volgens d'Antyke en Hedendaagse Manier (...). Ibid., idem, 1681, 1st ed., (16),213p., engr. frontisp., title-vignette.
= Kunst op Schrift 99.
- Contents occas. trifle foxed. Paper over covers (sl.) worn; backstrips (sl.) cracked.
= Arntzen/ Rainwater H96: "Biographical accounts of Netherlandish painters, a continuation of Houbraken."
Houbraken, A. De groote schouburgh der Nederlantsche konstschilders en schilderessen (...) zynde een vervolg op het Schilderboek van K. v. Mander. The Hague, J. Swart, C. Boucquet and M. Gaillard, 1753, 2nd rev. ed., 3 vols., (10),381,(10); (2),361,(7); (4),408,(7)p., engr. frontisp., portr. of the author, 42 plates with 1 to 4 portraits of Dutch painters and 5 other (fold.) plates, some textengrs., bound unif. w. the above.
- Pages largely uncut. Paper over covers (sl.) worn; backstrips (sl.) cracked.
= Chamberlin 2008: "As valuable for the 17th cent. in the Low Countries as Van Mander is for the 16th"; Arntzen/ Rainwater H97: "Important source"; Kunst op schrift 422-424.
(Dezallier d'Argenville, A.J.). Tooneel der uitmuntende schilders van Europa, en byzonderlyk van Nederland, zedert de vinding' der olieverw' tot Anno MDCCL (...) 1e deel [all publ.]. The Hague, Mattheus Gaillard, 1752, LXXX,(2),410p., 45 engr. portrait ills., bound unif. w. the above.
= Kunst op schrift 415; Arntzen/ Rainwater cf H89. Only vol. 1 publ. in Dutch; rare. All vols. in this lot bound uniformly and together form an attractive set.
- Occas. sl. foxed. Joint sl. rubbed.
= Attractively bound copy. Arntzen/ Rainwater H96: "Biographical accounts of Netherlandish painters, a continuation of Houbraken."
- Letterpieces partly lacking; spine-ends worn/ chipped; corners showing.
= Arntzen/ Rainwater H96: "Biographical accounts of Netherlandish painters, a continuation of Houbraken."
- Loose(ning); sl. fingersoiled and stained. Binding heavily worn; frontcover loose; needs rebinding. Sold w.a.f.
= Kunst op Schrift 254; cf. Orenstein 634E ("after 1650?"); cf. Kat. Orn. Berlin 4709 and Fowler 155, both listing the Dutch edition published in 1623; cf. Bierens de Haan 2116 (eds. 1640 and 1647).
- Occas. sl. yellowed; stamp on title. Otherwise fine.
= Schauplatz der Künste und Handwerke, Bd. XIV. Reprint of the 1st German edition (Nürnburg, 1779).
- Tipped-in annots. by Van den Broek on upper pastedowns.
= (...) "De behandeling van Papier, Waterverwen, Oostindische inkt, Biestre- en Neutrale Kleur; benevens Onderigting in het aanleggen der Luchten, Verschieten en Voorgronden; het Kleuren en Opwerken; mitsgaders het Kleuren van Gravures" (title-p.). Very rare. Provenance: the collection A.M. van den Broek.
- Frontcover loose(ning); backstrip partly worn off. = Nice manual, each plate with ±50 figures.
- Upper hinge trifle weak; plate-lvs. too large for binding (sticking out); occas. trifle yellowed; a few plates w. sm. waterst. (mainly) in blank margin. Binding worn/ dam.
= Bierens de Haan 3759; cf. Kat. Orn. Berlin 4740.
- Title sl. soiled and numb. "14" in manuscript below title.
= Part 7 of in total 9 parts published. Hollstein 342-353 (only mentioning 12 plates, our copy has 13 plates (VII.D.2-VII D.14)); Bonacini 2051; Kat. Orn. Berlin 5310. Very rare.
- All vols. w. owner's stamp on first free endpaper. Backcover vol. 1 chafed; bindings w. minor imperfections.
= Comprises: 1. Behelzende het Leeven van Mohammed; En het Begin van de Historie der Arabieren, onder de drie eerste Khalifs. 4. Behelzende de algemeene historie van de Turken (...). 5. Behelzende de historie van Jenghiz Khan's opvolgers in Tartarije, China, Kipjak, het Krimsche Tartarije, Groot en Klein Bucharije en Persie, benevens die der Moguls en Tartaren, onder de Regering van Timur Bek, of Tamerlan. 8. Behelzende de verdere Oostersche historie; en bijzonderlijk die van China. 9. Behelzende eene Beschryving van Japan; benevens de bezittingen der Portugeezen en Spanjaarden in de Indien. 10. Behelzende de historie van de Engelsche en Vereenigde Nederlandsche Oostindische Maatschappy. Rare.
- All vols. w. new endpapers; occas. sl. foxed/ browned (affecting a few maps/ plates); vol. 1 map "Het westelijk deel van het eiland Ceram" torn with loss of right half; partly sl. wormholed (sl. affecting 4 maps/ plates); vol. 2 w. owner's entry and gluestain on title-p.; vol. 4a one view w. vertical tear professionally restored; portrait of M. DE HAAN loosely inserted. Bindings sl. chafed; backstrips sl. sunned. A good/ fine set, complete with all the plates conforming to the binder's instruction in the last volume.
= 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 LXVII.
- Pastedowns loose. = Not in BCNI.
Villacastin, T. Onderwijs der Godvruchtiger Siele tot het innich Ghebedt. Dutch transl. J. Susius. Antw., widow J. Cnobbaert, 1658, 455,(9)p., engr. title, ills., contemp. overlapping vellum, sm. 8vo.
- New endpapers; waterstained. = BCNI 8027.
Barry, P. de. De eensaemheydt van Philagia, dienende tot geestelijcke oeffeninghe in eensaemheydt Van acht ofte thien gheduerighe daghen 's Iaers voor alle Godtvruchtighe Zielen de welcke naer hunne Heylicheydt ende Volmaecktheydt trachten. Dutch transl. G. van Aelst. Ibid., J. van Ghelen, 1646, (24),699,(1)p., woodcut printer's mark on verso last textp., contemp. overlapping vellum, sm. 8vo.
= BCNI 9965.
AND 2 others similar in contemp. overlapping vellum, sm. 8vo.
- Binding trifle worn and stained. Internally fine.
= Cf. Koeman Maa 2 (ed. 1822). Rare travel atlas, the maps showing in detail the route to be taken between the most important cities. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXVI.
- Fine/ very fine set, w. the following unobtrusive points: a few very sm. wormholes; one leaf lacks sm. part of upper left corner in blank margin; vol.1: a few thumbstained spots; vol.2: ±25 leaves sl. dampstained in blank outer margin. Bindings have some minor defects and corners are sl. bumped as usual; nevertheless in fine condition.
= A complete and attractively bound copy (57x38 cm. (binding)) of Blaeu's two townbooks of the Low Countries, nowadays rarely on the market in this near mint condition, with very wide margins (56x35,5 cm. (leaf)) and in uniform contemporary bindings. Koeman Bl 68B and Bl 69B. A monument of Dutch cartography, the 'Townbooks' of Blaeu show the Netherlands and present day Belgium in their full splendour, depicting in the plates both the fortifications of the towns and cities as well as the conglomerates of their buildings in detailed plans. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXIX.
- Occas. stained/ yellowed; ornamental woodcut initials occas. col. (contemp.?) in red crayon. Vellum worn and stained.
= Rare edition of a popular work by Giovanni Botero, translated into many European languages. First published in 1592 without maps, this edition contains the second edition of the maps (which were first included in the 1605 edition). The work does not merely provide geographical descriptions of the various countries, but also attempts to give information of a more wide-ranging nature (religion, culture and economics). Sabin 6800; cf. Borba de Moraes I, p.114 (ed. 1599); cf. Cicogna 1097 (ed. 1605).