81 3075 Machiavelli N

81 3075 Machiavelli N

- Bookplates on pastedowns; contents fine. Joints splitting; spine-ends and edges worn/ dam.; covers chaved; 1x calf on backcover dam.

= Bertelli/ Innocenti 83. With i.a. "The History of Florence", "The Prince", "Political Discourses upon the first Decad of Livy", "The Art of War" and "Posthumous Works".

81 3078 Maritime history B osch L v d

81 3078 Maritime history B osch L v d

- Contents fine. Rebacked with contemp. backstrip.

= Large paper copy. Provenance: Bob Luza Collection. Cat. NHSM, p.834; Klaversma/ Hannema 277; Van Eeghen/ Van der Kellen 67. The work first appeared in 1676, but in this second edition the part on the foreign admirals is left out, while the accounts of the Dutch exploits are much enlarged. The first part describes the early voyages and the main actions of the admirals of the East and West India Companies. The second part deals with the actions of the Zeeland admirals, the third and fourth part with those of the States of Holland, i.a. with biographies of De Ruyter and Piet Heyn, the capture of the Silver Fleet, the exploits in Brazil and Stuyvesant's failed negotiations with the colonists of New England.

81 3079 Maritime history Brandt G

81 3079 Maritime history Brandt G

- Upper joint splitting; covers worn along extremities; corners showing.

= Cat. NHSM p.844. The most important old source on the famous Dutch admiral.

81 3080 Maritime history Brandt G

81 3080 Maritime history Brandt G

- Partly sl. waterst./ wormholed (affecting 1 plate); 1 plate almost torn on fold. Backstrip dam./ loosening; extremities sl. worn.

= Cat. NHSM p.844. The most important old source on the famous Dutch admiral.

81 3081 Maritime history Brandt G

- Occas. trifle foxed. Spine rubbed; covers chafed; paper over board worn off at upper corners.

= Cat. NHSM p.844. The most important old source on the famous Dutch admiral.

81 3082 Maritime history Duhamel du Monceau H L

81 3082 Maritime history Duhamel du Monceau H L

81 3082 Maritime history Duhamel du Monceau H L

- Lacks frontisp.; title sl. fingersoiled. Otherwise fine.

= Rare second Dutch translation of Élémens de l'architecture navale; ou, Traité pratique de la construction des vaisseaux (Paris, 1752). Duhamel was an important shipwright during the early years of French naval construction. When he wrote this well-organized manual, he relied "on the organization of basic concepts and stressed respect for rational inquiry into limits of everyday building techniques. He sought to replace routine with best practice." (James Pritchard, "From Shipwright to Naval Constructor", Technology and Culture, 28:1, p.16). Cat. NHSM p.748; Bierens de Haan 1895.

81 3083 Maritime history Greenwood J

81 3083 Maritime history Greenwood J

- Lacks 10 leaves (title-p., 2 dedic. lvs., 1 ill. leaf and 7 final leaves), all replaced by facs. leaves; 2 leaves w. sm. dam. to blank margin; soiled and (water)stained almost throughout; some offsetting from colours; colours occas. smudged; occas. writing in child's hand on verso of plates. Sold w.a.f.

= Very rare signal book (the first naval signal book to be printed in the English language), containing 122 illustrations showing flag- and cannonsignals and 2 divisional titles "Signalls In a Fogg" as well as "Signalls By Night".

81 3084 Maritime history Le Francq van Berkhey J

- Partly (vaguely) waterstained. Lacks backstrip. = Cat. NHSM p.678.

81 3085 Maritime history Müller C G D

- Contemp. illegible owner's entry in pen on first free endpaper; title-p. sl. inkstained; partly sl. yellowed. Top of spine dam.

= The four folding plates at the end are numb. XV-XVIII and come from "Klügels Encyclopädie Th.IV, zweyte Auflage". Plate no.XVII is an original drawing copied from that source. Rare.

81 3086 Maritime history Röding J H

81 3086 Maritime history Röding J H

81 3086 Maritime history Röding J H

- Vol. 1 partly sl. waterst. and w. bookplate of "Kammer Director Moll" on upper pastedown.

= First edition and complete copy of this nautical encyclopedia. Cat. NHSM 1001; Zischka S75; Graesse VI, 146.

81 3087 Maritime history Verwer A

81 3087 Maritime history Verwer A

= Cat. NHSM p.944; Dekkers p.178, nos.1 and 5.

81 3088 Maritime history Westerveen A

- Occas. foxed/ sl. browned. Vellum sl. (dust)stained/ fingersoiled. Otherwise fine.

= Important collection of ordonnances on maritime and commercial law, translated here for the first time into Dutch. Although the ordonnances first appeared in print in Barcelona in 1494, they soon became into force across the Mediterranean Sea. In Northern Europe they were used as a supplementary law, but also as a major source for maritime legislation in various countries. The second part contains the Ordinacions de tot vexell qui armara per anar en cors e de tota armada ques faca per mar (entirely in Catalan). Goldsmiths 4054; Kress 2415.

81 3089 Maritime history Witsen N

81 3089 Maritime history Witsen N

81 3089 Maritime history Witsen N

81 3089 Maritime history Witsen N

81 3089 Maritime history Witsen N

- LARGE PAPER COPY. Outer blank margin of first few lvs. strengthened w. Japanese (incl. frontisp.); first part waterstained in upper inner margin; new endpapers; dam. spot in text on p.33-34; p.59-62 w. repaired tear. Joints splitting and restored.

= One of the two great 17th cent. Dutch works on shipbuilding (the other one being C. van Yk's De Nederlandsche Scheepsbouw-Konst). Cat. NHSM, p.743; Bierens de Haan 5368. The very rare first edition, first issue, with p. 474/475 (which were left out in the second issue for political reasons) describing the battle of Chatham (see i.a. W. Nijhoff, De anglophobie van N. Witsen).

81 3090 Marnix van St Aldegonde Ph van

- Leaf w. (old) bibliographical annots. tipped onto first free endpaper; final lvs sl. wormholed. Shelf ticket on spine.

= Muller 615; De Vries 438; cf. Scheepers I, 15.

81 3091 Marra J

81 3091 Marra J

- Lacks (as often) the map "Part of the tropical discoveries of the Resolution sloop, Captain J. Cook 1774" (which was orig. published in Gentleman's Magazine); sl. offsetting of plates on opposite textp.; occas. sl. foxed; upper endpaper browned along margins (probably offsetting fom glue used on pastedown). Lower corners bumped; rebacked.

= The first eyewitness account of Antarctic, written by Marra, a gunner's mate on the Resolution, without the knowledge of Cook, who first tried to suppress publication. "This rare account of Cook's second voyage was published surreptitiously eighteen months before Cook's official narrative. It records many incidents omitted by Cook and gives the reasons which caused Sir Joseph Banks and his twelve assistants to withdraw from the expedition at the last moment. Marra was a gunner's mate on the Resolution. He was an Irishman whom Cook had picked up in Batavia during the first voyage. Marra made an unsuccessful attempt to desert at Tahiti on May 14, 1774. Marra probably supplied material from his private journal which was put into shape by some literary person in the pay of the publisher Newbery" (Hill). Hill 1087; Kroepelien 809; O'Reilly-Reitman 379; Sabin 16247. SEE ILLLUSTRATION PLATE LXXXVII.

81 3092 Marsollier J

- Partly waterst. in blank margin; sl. yellowed and foxed. Binding sl. rubbed. = Quérard V, 563.

81 3093 Mathematics Cock D

81 3093 Mathematics Cock D

- Title-p. w. closed tear and margins strengthened on verso; hinges weak; occas. sl. (finger)soiled/ stained; later endpapers. Vellum browned; corners worn, partly restored.

= Famous Dutch arithmetic schoolbook, first published ±1640. Hoogendoorn CockvE01.08. Cf. cat. The Children's World of Learning 2195-2196; Bierens de Haan 902-903; Buijnsters BNK 454 (ed. 1791); Muller 1045 (ed. 1764); De Vries 486 (ed. 1755);

81 3094 Mathematics Paulinus a Sancto Josepho

- One plate w. a few closed holes/ dam. spots; sl. wormholed in inner blank margins throughout (occas. repaired); occas. (sl.) foxed; contemp. owner's entry on title. Backstrip wormholed, mostly at spine-ends.