2865 - 3576 OLD AND RARE BOOKS
- Occas. (sl.) browned, incl. a fold. portrait; fold. map/ plans/ views occas. yellowed, w. sm. closed tear along fold and occas. false fold; index part 1 bound in twice. Contemp. vellum sl. soiled; bindings to part 5-6 fine.
= Haitsma Mulier/ Van der Lem, 222b. With loosely inserted "Lykdigt" for the author (broadside, Leyden, C. Vermey, (1719)).
AND 1 other: A. DRAKENBORCH, Aanhangsel op de kerkelyke oudheden van Nederland (...) (Utr., 1744, contemp. calf w. gilt spine).
- Vellum sl. dustsoiled; lacks ties. Nevertheless a fine copy.
= Leendertz 125 and 124, the second and first edition. Without the portrait: "Achter den titel is gewoonlijk een portret van Hooft ingevoegd" (Leendertz). "Livre célèbre" (Willems).
- Lacks htitles; both vols. occas. (sl.) yellowed/ foxed (vol. II more than I), mostly affecting plates; one plate loose; vol. I three plates waterstained in lower blank margin; vol. II last lvs mouldstained in lower corner (incl. 1 plate). Both vols. spine-ends worn; corners showing.
= Abbey, Travel 184; Cox I, p.159; Lipperheide Gb35.
- Partly (vaguely) waterst. in lower margin. A fine copy.
= Wildenberg 1051; Haitsma Mulier/ Van der Lem 126a.
BOUND WITH: (Idem). Interest van Holland, ofte gronden van Hollands-Welvaren. Aangewezen door V.D.H. Amst., J.C. vander Gracht, 1662, (16),267,(5)p.
= Schumpeter p.368; Knuttel 8652; Wildenberg 1042; Van de Klashorst etc. 232: "The author of this famous treatise argues that the prosperity of Holland depends on religious tolerance, free trade and manufacture, lower taxes and duties, and in the field of foreign policy, the avoidance of war (especially at sea) and of territorial expansion. He urges the maintenance of the republican form of government and particularly warns against the appointment of a captain-general. Some chapters are attributed to John de Witt."
- Vol. 2 partly waterst. and sl. moulded. Bindings rubbed/ sl. worn along extremities.
- The 2nd vol. only. Spine-ends worn; spine sl. faded and w. numb. "14" in black ink.
= Re-edition of Voyage dans l'intérieur de La Hollande, fait dans les années 1807-1812. Landwehr, Dutch Books w. Coloured Plates 468; cf. Lipperheide Gb41. Not in Colas/ Hiler. Rare.
- Map sl. frayed along margins and darkened; generally sl. yellowed/ trifle stained; new endpapers; owner's entry on verso first blank in pen and ink. Spine worn; foot of spine dam.
= The first edition, with the often lacking map, of this posthumously published edition, edited by the author just before his death. Haitsma Mulier/ Van der Lem p.286; De Buck 2295.
- Annot. on first blank. Top of spine sl. worn; foot of spine sl. dam. = De Buck 2597.
- The plans of Gorinchem and Amersfoort waterstained in one (mainly blank) corner; the textleaf to the plan of Edam misbound behind Monnikendam; front- and backwr. heavily rubbed. Nice new binding, w. vellum-paper endpapers.
= Very rare and early traveller's guide of the Netherlands. With nice views of Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Medenblik, Utrecht, Amersfoort, Boskoop, Texel and Soestdijk. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE CXXXVI.
- Yellowed/ sl. foxed; textlvs. occas. sl. browned, Binding worn along extremities; top of spine dam.
= Tiele 1011; Haitsma Mulier/ Van der Lem 447a.
- Yellowed/ sl. browned/ foxed; occas. waterstained in outer corner (index worse). Binding worn, joints split(ting) (strong on cords); top of spine dam.
= Tiele 1011; Haitsma Mulier/ Van der Lem 447a.
= Bibl. Belgica S40; Willems 1652 note; cf. Rahir 1972; Van der Heijden, Leo Belgicus 12.1 and 13. Attractive map of Leo Belgicus.
- Contents (very) good; engr. title sl. cut short in top margin and a very small hole. Pastedowns occas. dam. Binding small damages.
= The very rare first Italian edition. A second volume without plates was published 1648.
- Fine set.
- A few lvs. loose(ning); occas. sl. waterst. and soiled; yellowed; upper hinge showing; lacks first free endpaper. Backcover w. dam. spot; vellum soiled/ duststained.
= Bibl. Belgica S72; De Buck 2277 (eds. 1646 and 1655).
- Fine copy.
- Old owner's entry on first free endpaper ("Auctor hujus libelli R. Pr. Aug. van Teylingen ex soc. Jesu Missionarius Amstelodami ab anno Domini 1619") and on title-p.; owner's stamp opposite title-p. (Very) good copy.
= Van Doorninck I, 365; De Wind p.476 and p.590ff. The first edition was published in Munster 1642.
- Trifle foxed; old owner's entry on title-p. of first work; the years of publication on the title-p. of the first and third work contemp. changed from "1679" to "1681" in pen and brown ink; two old (heraldic) bookplates on upper pastedown (1x of S.L. Persson Gahm, 2nd half 18th cent.). Frontcover w. a few sm. stains.
= The Latin and Dutch editions of two rare pamphlets concerning two Dutch-Swedish treatises of peace and trade. Knuttel 11772e, 11773, 11774 and 11776; Tiele 7788 and 7789.
ADDED 2 others: PLACCAET Vande Hooge ende Mog. Heeren Staten Generael der Vereenighde Nederlanden, daer by 't Placcaet vanden derden Julij sesthien-hondert ende negenthien gheconfirmeert (...) werdt teghen de uyt-ghewesen ende afghesette Predicanten (...) (The Hague, 1620, no binding. Knuttel 3061) and TWEE BRIEVEN, aan den Hertog van Brunswyk, over zyn zoogenaamd Manifest tegen Frankryk, enzo. Door den schryver van den brief aan den Koning van Pruissen; gedagtekend den zesden van oogstmaand 1792 (Haarlem, (1792), 3rd ed., no binding. Knuttel 22050).
- Without title-pages and index lvs. Backstrips rubbed; corners bumped.
= The views numbered 1-300 (part 2?, Utrecht), 301-400 (part 4, Kennemerland and West-Friesland), 401-500 (part 6, Noord-Holland, Gooiland, Rijnland, Delfland, Zuid-Holland, etc.) and 1-104 (part 5, Zeeland). One of the finest series of views depicting the Netherlands in the 18th century.
- Larger paper copy. ±10 Lvs. yellowed/ waterstained; otherwise occas. trifle/ sl. spotted. Bindings sl. rubbed along extremities.
= The views numbered 1-104 (part 5, Zeeland), 201-300 (part 3, Gelderland, Zuid-Holland and Rijnland), 301-400 (part 4, Kennemerland and West-Friesland) and 401-500 (part 6, Noord-Holland, Gooiland, Rijnland, Delfland, Zuid-Holland, etc.). One of the finest series of views depicting the Netherlands in the 18th century.