2865 - 3576 OLD AND RARE BOOKS
- Plate vol. only, endpapers w. browned spots. Spine rubbed; spine-ends worn.
= Graesse IV, p.58. Contains apart from 2 maps of Spain a number of maps showing routes in Andalucia and a map of the Baleares.
- Lacks the plate w. Lusitania; occas. trifle foxed; (sl.) yellowed/ browned; hinges weak. Spine wormholed (foot of spine worse); joints split at foot of spine; vellum chafed.
= Rare. This work appeared only one year before Portugal gained its independence from Spain. In this work Caramuel defends the Spanish rights and the legitimacy of the Spanish claim to the Portugese throne. The portraits are mostly drawn by Quellinus and engraved by Galle. Alden/ Landis 639/30.
- Leather over spines dried; spine-ends sl. worn; one letterpiece chipped; upper joint of final vol. starting.
- Third vol. partly waterstained and wormholed; 3 vols. w. two bookplates on upper pastedown. Joints splitting at places; corners worn; 1 letterpiece chipped; 1 letterpiece worn off.
= Rare. Buijnsters, Bibliogr. 18e-eeuwse Spectatoriale tijdschriften 42.
= Attractive bindings.
- Lacks plate G; the large fold. plate w. closed tear; plate B sl. waterstained; the texlvs. (sl.) yellowed/ browned.
= The text describing the animals and chariots for the procession as shown on the plates. The large folding plate showing the projected fireworks.
AND 2 others: a Dutch ed. describing the same jubilee, publ. by the same (the same year) (Beschrijvinge van het zeven honderjaerig Jubilé van den H. Macarius) and PRAEL-TREYN verrykt door ry-benden, prael-wagen, zinne-beelden en andere oppronkingen toegeschikt aen het duyzend-jaerig Jubilé van den heldmoedigen martelaer, bisschop, bezonderen apostel ende patroon der stad ende provincie van Mechelen den heyligen Rumoldus (Mechelen, n.d. (1775), 12 (of ?) mainly fold. engr plates, modern hcalf, 4to. Most plates w. (repaired) defects).
- Both vols. w. engr. heraldic bookplate on upper pastedown. Joints splitting; covers loose(ning).
= Lowndes p.434; Graesse II, p.131.
- Lacks 1 map and 1 frontisp.; the first 18 leaves of the final vol. bound with in photostat. Final vol. rebound in modern hmor. w. orig. backstrip laid down; paper over covers sl. worn. Sold w.a.f.
= Including a fine copy of the "Platte kaart van de geheele werelt", on which California is shown as an island (Shirley p.613).
- Scattered markings and underlining in pencil; partly (vaguely) waterst. in upper inner margin. Covers sl. waterst.; upper joint spitting, but holding on cords.
= Van Doorne/ Van Kempen 3630; Sabin 38250; Tiele 1140; Landwehr, Dutch Books w. Col. Plates 461. Complaint of an anonymous Dutch settler against Van Batenburg, governor of the colony Berbice. With a history of the colony including the question of the private possessions of the society of the shareholders. Berbice had been a Dutch settlement since the Flushing merchant and West India Company director Abraham van Pere in 1627 had agreed to found a patronship there. In 1720, the Society of Berbice took over from the Van Pere family. Under the lead of this joint-stock company, the colony experienced rapid growth. From 1796 it was under British command. With a beautiful large coloured view of New Amsterdam on the Rio de Berbice.
- Htitle of vol.I sl. soiled; occas. trifle foxed. First vol. foot of spine sl. wormholed; all vols,. leather sl. worn and sl. dried. Otherwise fine.
= Sabin 91077; Cat. NHSM, p. 282; Van Doorne/ Van Kempen 6455; Rouffaer/ Muller p.625; Tiele 1046; Muller 1489. The first Dutch edition, rarely found complete and in contemp. bindings. With loosely inserted a manuscript letter addressed to "Mevrouw Elisabeth Lambekke Geboren Botger" (dated "25 Maart 1815"), concerning the will of "Frierich Christiaan Hendrick Bottger", and more specifically on financial matters dealing with the subject of "Plantage Zeezigt" which formed part of the will. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE CXL.
- Old catalogue entry on upper pastedown; sl. foxed. Otherwise fine.
= At the end of the first part the famous treatise "Een eenvoudige, dog duidelyke verklaaring over de zo genaamde onverslaanbare parnasdreun te bruilofte &c. door den autheur zelver opgestelt, alleen uit liefde en zugt voor de onbedreeve poëten en dozynwerkers van zyn gelukkig vaderland". "In het werk dat zoveel weerstand heeft opgeroepen verwerpt Van Sw. het polijsten van verzen en de onderworpenheid aan regels, principes (...). Daartegenover stelt hij inspiratie en extase. Zijn overtuiging wordt gemotiveerd door de hermetische filosofie op naam van Hermes Trismegistos, waarin lijdzame overgave en extatische terugkeer naar de goddelijke harmonie kernthema's zijn. Het unieke satirisch-hermetische werk van Van Swaanenburg dient men te beschouwen tegen de 18de-eeuwse achtergrond van deze filosofie" (Moderne Encycl. van de Wereldliteratuur IX, p.198).
- Both hinges broken; partly waterstained; first and last leaf loosening and frayed along margins. Vellum darkened; remnants of former paper letterpiece on spine.
= Haitsma Mulier/ Van der Lem 474a; De Wind p.471f.
- Hinges weak; trifle foxed. Spine-ends sl. worn; corners showing; a few rubbed spots.
= Nice overview of various kinds of draperies in Empire style, i.a. above beds, alcoves and windows. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE CXLII.
- Partly w. waterstain in upper inner (mainly blank) corner; sl. yellowed; modern vellum-paper endpapers; title-p. w. engr. printer's vignette pasted over the woodcut (partly loose and sl. creased). Spine partly creased and restored at top; covers trifle scratched.
= BCNI 14524 and cf. 14522 (publ. H. instead of J.B. Verdussen). Rare.
- New endpapers; a few plates w. closed tears; sl. yellowed. Frontcover loose; corners bumped.
- Without vol. 1/2 and vol. 2 (containing in total 56 (fold. etc,) plates); a few fold. maps/ plates w. tears on folds; one textleaf dam. and one leaf loose; spine-ends sl. dam.
= Nijhoff/ Van Hattum 267. The finest description of The Hague, including the desirable large fold. profile (present in our copy). SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE CXLI.
- Including mediocre copies, not collated. Sold w.a.f.
- Partly thumbed/ soiled; marginal waterstain at the beginning; plates trimmed to the outer borderline and partly remargined. Binding rubbed.
= BCNI 8023.
Idem. L'imitation de Iesus Christ. French transl. Ph. Chiffelet. Antw., l'Imprimerie Plantinienne, 1655, 3rd rev. ed., (40),420,(27)p., engr. title, 5 full-p. ills. by C. GALLE JR. after N. VAN DER HORST, woodcut printer's mark, 19th cent. gilt mor., a.e.g.
- Contents fine. Binding rubbed. = BCNI 11203.
- Sl. later pastedowns; otherwise attractive copy.
- Five new endpapers, a few minor defects.
= Cf. Graesse VII, p.140 and Brunet V, p.1440 (other editions).