2970 - 3959 OLD AND RARE BOOKS
68 2970 Aa P vander ed 
68 2970 Aa P vander ed 
68 2970 Aa P vander ed 
68 2970 Aa P vander ed 
- Three vols. w. library stamp on first free endpaper; one title-p. in vol. 22 w. large cut; one plate repaired on verso; occas. sl. yellowed/ some foxed spots. Contents otherwise fine. Vol. 18 joints starting at top; vol. 20 and 25 upper joint starting at top; joints of vol. 22 split; some vols. spine-ends trifle chipped. Nevertheless a fine set.
= Cf. Tiele 5 and Cat. NHSM p.107. With travels of i.a. C. Balby, F. Brooks, G. van Cumberland, J. Dickenson,F. Draak, R. Fitch, O.F. van der Greuben, M. Herberer, E. Koopman, J. Lerius, H. Lobo, E. Lopez, J. Newberie and J. Staden. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XCIX.
68 2971 Aa P vander ed 
- A few fold. plates / maps sl. yellowed and sl. creased; one map strengthened on one fold; a few textleaves sl. yellowed.
= Contains: 1 / 2. Negende / Tiende / Elfde / Twaalfde Reys na Oost-Indien (...) Door Edmund Marlow / Thomas Best / Ralph Wilson / Christoffel Nieuwpoort; 3. Voyagie Van den Eerwaarden Vader Antonio Fernandez na Gingiro; 4. Reys na Oost-Indien van Kapiteyn Nicolaas Dounton (...); 5. Beknopte aantekeningen Van een Oost-Indische Reys (...) Door Johan Milward; 6. Twee scheeps-togten Van Kapiteyn Johan Smith, Beyde gedaan na Nieuw-Engeland (...); 7. Tweede Reys Van Kapiteyn Walter Peyton, Na Oost-Indien; 8. Scheeps-Togt Van Edward Terry (...) na Oost-Indien; 9. Twee Bysondere Scheeps-Togten, De eerste van Roger Hawes (...) De Tweede van Alexander Childe, Na Suratte en Jasques. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE C.
68 2972 Africa Dapper O 
- Lacks the frontisp. and 6 maps; Africa map dam.; a few plates cut sl. short; title-p. cropped, soiled and sl. stained; general map w. closed tears at inner margin and sl. stained; textp. partly fingersoiled in margins.
= Tiele 296/ 297; Paulitschke 190. The rare first edition, Cat. NHSM, Mendelssohn, Kainbacher, Gay all later editions and translations. The first extensive general description of the African continent. The work is based on the early accounts of the Portuguese and Spanish explorers, the English works by Purchass and Jarrick, the journals and descriptions of Dutch navigators like Van Noort, Van Neck, Linschoten, Spilbergen, but especially on unpublished reports and eye-witness accounts of Dutch merchants, visitors and soldiers. Very detailed on the West Coast, where the Dutch ivory-, gold- and slave-trade flourished and on Angola (Luanda was captured by a WIC fleet in 1647). On the settlement on the Cape only a cursory note is found, while the surrounding tribes are described with remarkable detail. The second part, devoted to the African islands, from Malta to Madagascar, includes an ample account of the French colonization of the latter. The work is famous for its splendid detailed maps and plates, i.a. engraved after drawings by Reinier Noomsz (Zeeman).
68/2973 Africa Hedendaagsche Historie of Tegenwoordige Staat van Afrika Waar in uitmunt De Beschryving van Barbarie Senegal Guinee de Kaap der Goede Hoope van de Kanarische Vlaamsche en Fran
- Paper over covers partly torn off; spine (sl.) cracked; binding worn along extremities. Despite defects a fine copy.
= Mendelssohn II, p.502; not in Gay.
68 2974 Africa Park M 
- Offsetting from frontisp. on title-p.; htitle and frontisp. trifle dampstained in margin. Neatly rebacked w. use of orig. backstrip; binding rubbed/ sl. worn along extremities. Otherwise fine.
= Cox I, p.394f; Henze IV, p.14; Gay 2788; Howgego P4: "In 1794 Park offered his services to the African Association, the intention being to follow the route pioneered by Daniel Houghton across West Africa in an attempt to reach the River Niger. (...) His offer was accepted and it was decided to recruit fifty more men to act as his escort. (...) Park eventually left Pisania (2.12.95) with an English-speaking Mandingo guide called Johnson, a slave called Demba, a horse and two asses, food supply for two days, an umbrella, a sextant, a compass, a thermometer and four firearms. (...) He reached Sego (= Segou) on the River Niger on 20.7.96, where he was at last able to confirm that the river flowed towards the east. (...) [He] arrived back at Pisania on 10.6.97 (...). Warmly received in London, Park spent the next year writing his immensely popular Travels in the Interior of Africa (1799) (...)."
68 2975 Africa Shaw T 
- Partly with (vague) brown stain, sometimes the stain on textlvs. mould w. loss of some letters; a few maps wrinkled and w. repaired tears.
= Tiele 1001; Cox I, p.377; Nissen, ZBI 3841 (all first Dutch ed. Utr., 1773). This edition is the only one with the nice large engr. view of Algiers. The first (English) edition was published in 1738, four years after Shaw's return from Africa. Howgego S92: "English scholar, natural historian and traveller (1692-1751). (...) After receiving holy orders, Shaw was appointed chaplain to the English factory in Algiers. He held the post for twelve years, then travelled for three years across North Africa, passing through Algeria, Tunisia, Libya and Egypt, and continuing into Palestine and Syria."
68 2976 Africa Congo Douville J B 
68 2976 Africa Congo Douville J B 
68 2976 Africa Congo Douville J B 
68 2976 Africa Congo Douville J B 
68 2976 Africa Congo Douville J B 
68 2976 Africa Congo Douville J B 
- Text vols. sl. foxed throughout, the third vol. final few leaves sl. browned. Atlas vol. title-p. and list of contents sl. foxed and yellowed, title-p. also sl. waterstained in corners; spine restored and wr. partly duststained and sl. creased; 17 plates and the map w. oval blindst. author's name and title below image (mostly stamped on caption) and all plates as well as the map w. small libr. stamp of the Univ. of Michigan in lower outer corner. Otherwise plates trifle age-toned but very fine.
= The title page of the Atlas with stamp of the "Bibliotheque du Roi Palais Royal", indicating this copy presumably was handed over to king Louis Philippe by Douville in 1832 (and subsequently, when the veracity of his travels was strongly doubted, removed from the library). Gay 3071; Broc p.118f; Howgego II, D27: "(...) According to his narrative, Douville arrived at Benguela in December 1827, then followed the coast to Luanda (...) From Luanda he ascended the River Cuanza and crossed to Kassouga, on the frontier between Angola and Congo. By descending the Cuango (Kwango) he reached the Kasai and visited the region around Lac Leopold II. He then descended the Congo (Zaire) to the coast. Douville returned to France in 1831 and in the following year published his four-volume Voyage au Congo (...). The account was first received enthousiastically (...) and Douville was awarded the gold medal of the Société. However, the obvious exaggerations of some of his statements soon aroused suspicion. (...) Subsequent discoveries proved the truth of the accusations against him, meaning that the precise extent of his travels must remain conjectural. In fact it is probable that he never went beyond the coast, and it is generally agreed that much of his narrative was based on unpublished Portuguese documents (...)." SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE C.
Idem. AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED "J.B. Douville" and addressed to "Monsieur de la Menais", dated "Paris le 27. Sepbre 1831", pen and ink, 1 leaf, recto only.
- Sl. foxed.
= A letter addressed to La Menais, then editor of the journal l'Avenir. "J'ai le honneur de vous adresser l'aperçu d'un voyage que je viens de faire dans le centre de l'Afrique au sud de l'Equateur. Je vous prie d'en annoncer la prochaine publication." He finishes off his letter by politely mentioning the high esteem in which he has held La Menais since his college days at St.Malo where they first met.
68 2977 Aldus Camotius J B 
- Title-p. sl. soiled and w. old owner's entry "Ex Bibliotheca Schurzfleischiana"; year of publication on title-p. changed in pen and ink from "M.D.LI" into "M.D.LXII".
= From the library of Konrad Samuel Schurzfleisch (1641-1708), historian, author and librarian as well as avid collector of books. Renouard p.147, 2: "Volume rare et peu connu." Adams C463. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XCVIII.
68/2978 Alkemade Reglement en ordre op de brandschouwery aan de Rypwetering en Oude Ade onder Alkemade/ Regelement en ordre op de brandschouwerij om Roelofarendsveen en Goog onder Alkemade 
- First vol. disbound.
= First volume contains the revisions made for the second edition of 1803 in contemp. manuscript in margins.
AND 2 others on Alkemade: Consent ende Reglement tot het verveenen, bedyken en droogmaken der Lyker-Polder, (...) Veender-Polder, onder de Vrye Heerlykheid Alkemade (Leyden, 1762, contemp. (folded and sl. soiled) wr.) and Consent ende Reglement tot het Bedyken, Verveenen en Droogmaaaken van de Akkersloot- Hertogs- en Blyverpolders, gelegen onder Alkemande (n.pl., n.d. (1791), contemp. marbled wr.).
68 2979 Alkmaar Eikelenberg S 
- Vague library-stamp on title-p.; occas. trifle yellowed/ foxed. Vellum sl. warped. Fine copy.
= Nijhoff/ Van Hattum 87.
Boomkamp, G. Alkmaer en deszelfs geschiedenissen. Rott., P. and J. Losel, 1747, 440,(36)p., engr. title-vignette, 3 (large) fold. maps, 4 (fold.) plates/ views, contemp. gilt hcalf w. yellow mor. letterpiece.
- Vague library-stamp on title-p.; title-p. yellowed; occas. trifle/ sl. foxed; one map strengthened on fold on verso. Top of spine chipped; sl. worn along extremities and spine.
= Nijhoff/ Van Hattum 88.
68 2980 Alkmaar Eikelenberg S / Boomkamp G 
- Trifle/ sl. foxed; map partly browned in outer margin; large plan sm. tear in inner margin of image. Spine soiled; archive tickets on spine and frontcover.
= Pages 112*-116* in part 1: "Voorrechtbrief, van Bevrydingh der Alkmaarders"; p.112-116: "Vonnisbrief, By Vreedemaakers van Vroon gegeeven in den Jaare 1418". Nijhoff/ Van Hattum 87 and 88.
68 2981 Alkmaar Eikelenberg S / Boomkamp G 
68 2981 Alkmaar Eikelenberg S / Boomkamp G 
- First part lacks the plate of the "Eergraf Van Graaf Floris de Vyfde", second part lacks title-p. and its prelim. lvs. bound after the title-p. of the first work; sm. marg. tear in 1 map and 2 fold. plans (both neatly repaired); bookplate on upper pastedown; sm. stamps on title-p.; partly waterstained in upper part and outer margin.
= Nijhoff/Van Hattum 87 and 88. Rarely found w. handcol. plates. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE CI.
- One leaf dam. in blank margin and w. large tear; sl. yellowed; occas. marginal waterstain; pastedowns loose. Hinges weak (broken at a few places); binding soiled.
= Cf. Van der Haar 998, listing this as a transl. of Discourse of family-worship w. author G. Hammond, but actually the Dutch translation of Richard Allestree, The whole duty of man.
- Most leaves fingersoiled in margins (partly badly soiled); old annots. on upper endpapers; final free endpaper loose. Vellum soiled.
= Cf. Van der Haar 998, listing this as a transl. of Discourse of family-worship w. author G. Hammond, but actually the Dutch translation of Richard Allestree, The whole duty of man.
AND 2 incomplete emblem books, i.a. A. SPINNEKER, Leerzaame zinnebeelden/ Vervolg der leerzaame zinnebeelden (...) (Haarlem, 1714/ 1758, 2 parts in 1 vol., engr. frontisp., title-vignette, num. emblematic ills., contemp. vellum, 4to. Lacks 4 leaves and free endpapers; first leaf and final leaf lower margin strengthened).
68/2984 Almanacs Almanach voor het Jaer ons heeren Jesu Christi Anno 1699 
- Restored and doubled; upper left corner torn off w. loss of text.
AND a small stack of ±25 plano almanachs, mainly 19th cent., various techniques and sizes, i.a. "Nieuwe kantoor- of Plak-Almanak voor het jaar 1813" (Amst., J. Belinfante) and "Kalender voor 1891" (broadside w. an etching by C. DAKE. Folded/ browned).
68/2986 Almanacs De Naauwkeurige Hollandsche Almanach 1771 Met fraaije Printverbeeldingen vercierd en verrykt met alles wat tot een volmaakte Almanach behoord mitsgaders veele nutte byzonderhede
68/2986 Almanacs De Naauwkeurige Hollandsche Almanach 1771 Met fraaije Printverbeeldingen vercierd en verrykt met alles wat tot een volmaakte Almanach behoord mitsgaders veele nutte byzonderhede
68/2986 Almanacs De Naauwkeurige Hollandsche Almanach 1771 Met fraaije Printverbeeldingen vercierd en verrykt met alles wat tot een volmaakte Almanach behoord mitsgaders veele nutte byzonderhede
- Frontisp. loose and sl. soiled; last 30p. dogeared/ bumped. Backstrip dam. = Rare. No copies in NCC.
De Haagsche, Princelyke en Koninglyke Almanach, voor het Jaar MDCCXCI. The Hague, J.F. Jacobs de Agé, (1790), 64,104p., 6 stipple-engr. portraits, contemp. plain boards, 16mo.
= Rare Orangist almanac.
Nederlandsche Dichtkundige almanach voor vrouwen. Amst., J. van Gulik, 1798, (36),160,(2)p., engr. title-p. and 6 double-p. plates, all printed in brown, contemp. gilt red mor., a.e.g., 16mo.
= Rare. One of the plates shows a wedding ceremony, another one a gallant scene.
68/2987 Almanacs Le Panorama de Momus 
- Without the stylus; a few sm. pencil annots. = Grand-Carteret 1523.
ADDED 1 other in a late 18th cent. limp vellum wallet binding.
68/2988 Almanacs Rotterdamschen Almanak/ Gepriviligeerden Rotterdamschen Almanach Voor het Jaar onzes Heeren Jezus Christus/ Op 't Jaar ons Heeren Jesu Christi 1835/ 1843/ 1857/ 1867/ 1881 
- One vol. (1881) w. a few later col. ills. Otherwise the usual traces of wear: occas. dustsoiled/ a few leaves worn/ sl. dam. in margins; one vol. contents loosening; bindings partly worn/ fingersoiled.
= Rare almanacs.
68/2989 Almanacs Stichtse Almanach Op 't Jaar Onzes Heeren Jesu Christi 1762 1770 1773 1774 1777 1778 1780 1783 1786 1787 1789 1810 Continued as Provinciale Utrechtsche Almanak voor '
- Occas. w. some old annots. A few vols. binding (sl.) defective. Otherwise fine.
= Long run of this Utrecht almanac. Cf. Waller 133; The Children's World of Learning 2652-2653.