2342 - 2933 OLD AND RARE BOOKS
= Rahir 2848.
- Trifle browned; first ±15 lvs. waterstained in upper inner corner, sl. affecting text and portrait; 2 lvs. of the 2nd part w. inkstains, affecting half-p. ill. Lacks sm. portion of top of spine; joints starting; corners bumped. Nevertheless a nice copy.
= Hollstein 431-437; Waller 1732; Scheepers I, 282; Versnel 597; Franken III, p.99. The rare first and only edition of this charming work. The first part consists of a laudatory poem on peat and its trade on the peat-market in The Hague. The second part contains one of the earliest laudatory poems on tobacco to be published in The Netherlands. Arents II, 194: "In this potpourri, the author, after describing and praising the qualities of Dutch peat, relates (undoubtedly as a satire) an amusing incident which he says he had witnessed. A farmer, standing on his peat-loaded ship, was smoking a pipe and thus appeared to onlookers to be on fire. Great confusion reigned while some ran for ladders and shovels, and others for water with which to extinguish the assumed blaze, until the nature of the smoke was explained. In the Nieuw Wys-Mal is related a lengthy and involved fable in verse, presented as someone's dream, in which the two chief characters are Doddus, a blacksmith, and his helper, Julfus. In the course of their travels they come upon a field where grows a special herb. Doddus determines to make tobacco out of this. Julfus is of the opinion that tobacco smells bad. He is told by his master that it is not food for the belly but is intended only for the nose, mouth, and head. Upon the death of Doddus, Julfus plans to propagate the use of tobacco over the earth. Tobacco, he soliloquizes, deserves fame, for it clarifies poor eyesight, expels lice, and drives away wives. It has, too, other valuable remedial and social powers." On the binding: Storm van Leeuwen IIB, 4.2.7. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XCIII.
- Part of the portraits apparently taken from another copy (cut shorter than the other leaves); large closed tear in p.77; later owner's entry on first free endpaper. Otherwise fine.
= Hollstein IX,159; Lipperheide Oc 11 (Latin ed. 1725); Van Someren I,169c. Contains portraits of i.a. Erasmus, Luther, Melanchthon, Jonas, Cruciger, Zwingli, Calvin, Beza.
- Fine copy. = Rare.
- Lacks 3 plates ("Hoe den Eliphanten ghevanghen werden", "Van de Zee-paerden in Lowango" and "Een Bock met een hoorn"); sl. yellowed and some occas. vague thumbing/ soiling (1 plate w. stain); some plates as usually in sl. weak impression; 3 plates lack portion from lower blank corner (occas. other unobtrusive paper flaws); fold. plates/ maps occas. sl. frayed/ creased (2x w. sm. tear penetrating the image); vol. 1 w. occas. tiny wormholes in lower blank margin and first few lvs. of the introd. w. waterstain in lower blank corner. Pastedowns some sm. dam. from loosening turn-ins; lacks ties; bindings trifle soiled. In all a good and near complete copy.
= Landwehr VOC no. 250, listing three editions (1644 (only 2 copies known), 1645 and 1646); Tiele 82; Tiele (Mémoire) pp.13-15; Cox I, p.9; cat. N.H.S.M. I, p.105; Sabin 14959; Rouffaer/ Muller I, p.52; Roeper/ Wildeman (Reizen op papier) p.140: "De Bundel, die onder de titel Begin ende Voortgang vande Vereenigde Neederlantsche Geoctroyeerde Oost-Indische Compagnie in twee delen verscheen, telde ruim dertig verhalen over reizen naar de Oost. De reisverslagen waren min of meer chronologisch en systematisch (naar beschreven gebied) geordend. Om de kopergravures die Janssonius van Colijn had overgenomen aan te vullen, liet de uitgever een groot aantal nieuwe illustraties in dezelfde stijl graveren. De bundel werd al met al een kostbaar boekwerk. (...) Terwijl Cornelis Claesz aan het begin van een traditie stond, betekende de bundel van Janssonius en Commelin een breekpunt in de produktie van reisverslagen. Wat betreft formaat en uitvoering stond Begin ende Voortgangh nog dicht bij de verslagen die Claesz publiceerde. Janssonius had goed aangevoeld dat de tijd rijp was voor een opleving van het genre. Samen met Commelin heeft hij het Nederlandsche reisverslag een enorme impuls gegeven." Complete copies are very rare. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XCIV.
- Formerly folded; sl. creased; sl. frayed in left margin.
= Rare. Cf. Knuttel 16824 and Landwehr 1010, both referring to a pamphlet with a similar (not identical) title, that continues "als mede Zeven Lofdichten, gemaakt op den Heer W.H., gewezen Predikant op Batavia, nu Heer van Waverveen." No copy traced of this possibly separately published pamphlet, listing the names of the officials in Batavia and Ceylon that were dismissed and recalled to The Netherlands because of their misconduct.
- Annot. on verso title-p. and on piece of paper mounted on pastedown; partly vaguely waterstained in lower blank margin, not touching text; remnants of wax stamps (?) on upper pastedown. Owner's entry in pen and ink on frontcover; trifle worn along extremities.
= With beautiful, delicate bookplate of "W.G. van Haren" (?) on verso portrait, executed in black and blue pen and ink and heightened with gold.
- Lacks 3 portraits; occas. sl. foxed; some lvs. browned. Bindings sl. rubbed along extremities; some worn spots on covers.
= Bengesco 2142.
- Lacks pastedowns; upper hinge sl. weak; old owner's entry on first fee endpaper; sl. (finger)soiled; some marginal (water)stains, sl. affecting text. Vellum soiled.
= Schuytvlot 9; Unger 6.
- Contents loose; 18th cent. owner's entry on title; sl. waterstained and fingersoiled. Vellum wrinkled and darkened.
= This edition not found in the usual reference works nor in NCC. Extremely rare.
- Library stamp "Bibliotheca seminarii Culemborgensis" on title; first few lvs. waterstained; occas. sl. foxed.
- Two bookplates and 4 owner's stamps on upper pastedown and first free endpaper; (sl.) foxed throughout; engr. title w. sm. hole and some colouring in ball-point. Binding dam. Sold w.a.f.
= Hayn/ Gotendorf IV, p. 326-327.
- Owner's entry/ stamp on first free endpaper/ htitle. Joints and spine-ends worn; corners showing.
= The first edition. Buijnsters 171; Waller 1885; Landwehr F234; The Children's World of Learning 3209.
Iidem. Gedichten en liedjens voor het Vaderland; benevens eene aanspraak aan het Bataafsche Volk. Ibid., idem, 1798, XXVIII,266,(2)p., later hvellum, orig. wr. pres.
- Sl. foxed. = Buijnsters 192.
ADDED: 4 others in 5 vols. on the same, i.a. H.J. VIEU-KUIK, Het gebruik van Franse woorden door Wolff en Deken (Arnhem, n.d., 2 vols., orig. unif. wr.) and P.J. BUIJNSTERS, Bibliografie der geschriften van en over Betje Wolff en Aagje Deken (Utr., 1979, plates, orig. cl. w. dustwr.).
- Binding worn; corners showing; vol.3 lacks vol. piece. Contents fine.
= Buijnsters 74: "vertaling van The Spiritual Quichote or The Summer's Ramble of Mr. Geoffry Wildgoose, 1773, door Richard Graves (1715-1804). De toeschrijving aan (T.) Smollet in onjuist". Rare.
Wolff-Bekker, E. and Deken, A. Fabelen voor de Nederlandsche jeugd. Ibid., idem, 1792, XXIX,(3),172p., 40 engr. ills. by R. VINKELES and A. CARDON, contemp. boards.
- Spine sl. worn/ dam. Contents fine.
= Buijnsters 172; Waller 1886; Landwehr F235; The Children's World of Learning 3210.
- Without the (unfinished) 2nd vol.; sl. yellowed at the end; 2 old bookplates on upper pastedown. Top of spine and corners restored.
ADDED 1 other: J.G. LE SAGE TEN BROEK, De Ware Aanbidding in Geest en in Waarheid (ibid., 1823, engr. title, plates, contemp. gilt green mor., a.e.g., sm. 8vo).
- Some offsetting from turn ins. Nevertheless a fine copy.
- First and final blank w. 3 (contemp., 18th and 19th cent.) owner's entries in pen and ink; "Capucinorum Bergensium" in contemp. ms. on title; hinges broken but contents holding on cords; lacks endpapers. Vellum soiled; lacks ties.
= BCNI 7889.
- Small owner's entry on first free endpaper and below title; pastedowns loose. Lacks ties.
- Most maps sl. yellowed. Binding worn; backstrip lacks large portion.
= Koeman III, Tir 8. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XCIV.
- Vague libr. stamp on recto first blank and cat. clipping on verso of first blank. Fine copy.
= De Buck 1944; Nijhoff/ Van Hattum 264.
AND 1 other: J. DE KANTER, Chronijk van Zierikzee (Zierikzee, 1795, 2nd ed., modern vellum. Preliminary leaves waterstained; binding warped).