2076 - 2859 OLD and RARE BOOKS
77 2096 Amsterdam and surroundings Commelin C 
77 2096 Amsterdam and surroundings Commelin C 
- One plate loosely inserted and printed on smaller leaf; blank upper outer corner of title-p. cut off; occas. sl. foxed. Frontcover of vol.1 two restored dam. circular spots (both Ø ±3 cm.); vol.2 top of spine chipped; both vols. corners worn.
= The second edition of the best 17th cent. description of Amsterdam, based on the works by the predecessors Dapper and Van Domselaar and on materials furnished by the author's father Isaac Commelin. The author (1636-1693) had free access to the archives of the city and therefore his work contains much more reliable sources and official documents than the works by Dapper and Van Domselaar. Nijhoff/ Van Hattum 68. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXXIII.
77 2097 Amsterdam and surroundings Hand vesten privilegien octroyen costumen en willekeuren der stad Amstelredam 
77 2097 Amsterdam and surroundings Hand vesten privilegien octroyen costumen en willekeuren der stad Amstelredam 
- Occas. (sl.) foxed and yellowed/ browned. Binding sl. stained.
77 2098 Amsterdam and surroundings Philips Jacobszoon C 
77 2098 Amsterdam and surroundings Philips Jacobszoon C 
77 2098 Amsterdam and surroundings Philips Jacobszoon C 
- Lacks the final plate, no.24; title-p. sl. foxed and sl. yellowed; outer blank margins of a few plates occas. trifle foxed. Otherwise fine.
= Leonhardt sale, Atlas van Amsterdam 85. Detailed depiction of over 1400 houses bordering the Amsterdam canals, very important for the history of Amsterdam architecture. "Dit fraay en allzints nutlyk werk is niet alleen zeer aangenaam aan de Bewoonders deezer prachtige Gebouwen, maar ook aan zodanige Liefhebbers welke hunne Kunst Kabinetten verryken met alles wat van dien smaak het licht ziet. Het is ook van niet minder dienst aan Timmerlieden, Metzelaars, Steenhouwers, Schilders, Smits en meer andere die aan de Bouwkunst behooren, vermits veele deezer Gebouwen na de Ontwerpen en Teekeningen van beroemde Italiaansche en Fransche Architecten vervaardigt zyn en duizende voorwerpen van Modellen doen zien, zonder te gedenken dat de kunst Beminnaars deeze Plaaten in of by de Beschryving van Amsteldam kunnen voegen." [title-p.].
77 2099 Amsterdam and surroundings Philips Jacobszoon C 
77 2099 Amsterdam and surroundings Philips Jacobszoon C 
- Owner's stamp on title-p.; lower blank outer corner of the title-p., subscriber's list and the first plate mouldy/ dam.; lacks plate 11-13; most plates sl. (partly vaguely) waterstained in outer lower blank corner. Spine pasted over w. paper; corners worn.
= Leonhardt sale, Atlas van Amsterdam 85. Detailed depiction of over 1400 houses bordering the Amsterdam canals, very important for the history of Amsterdam architecture. "Dit fraay en allzints nutlyk werk is niet alleen zeer aangenaam aan de Bewoonders deezer prachtige Gebouwen, maar ook aan zodanige Liefhebbers welke hunne Kunst Kabinetten verryken met alles wat van dien smaak het licht ziet. Het is ook van niet minder dienst aan Timmerlieden, Metzelaars, Steenhouwers, Schilders, Smits en meer andere die aan de Bouwkunst behooren, vermits veele deezer Gebouwen na de Ontwerpen en Teekeningen van beroemde Italiaansche en Fransche Architecten vervaardigt zyn en duizende voorwerpen van Modellen doen zien, zonder te gedenken dat de kunst Beminnaars deeze Plaaten in of by de Beschryving van Amsteldam kunnen voegen." [title-p.].
77 2100 Amsterdam and surroundings Reglement voor het makelaars gild 
- Occas. trifle foxed. Wr. trifle frayed along extremities.
77 2101 Amsterdam and surroundings Wagenaar J 
- Occas. sl. foxed/ yellowed. Otherwise a fine, professionally rebound large paper copy.
= Nijhoff/ Van Hattum 311. As often without the fourth volume published 21 years after the third volume.
- Lacks vol. 1 and 2; all vols. w. bookplate on upper pastedown; occas. foxed/ sl. yellowed. Not collated but apparently complete.
= Nijhoff/ Van Hattum 312.
77 2103 Amsterdam and surroundings Witkamp P H 
- Usual foxing; bookplate on upper pastedown; lacks "Voorberigt" 2nd vol. (supplied in photostat); 4 lithogr. plates added in photostat.
= Landwehr, Dutch Books w. Col. Plates 480.
ADDED: 1 other.
77 2104 Anson G 
77 2104 Anson G 
- Fine and clean copy. Backstrip lacks letterpiece.
= Tiele 42; Cat. NHSM p.136; Howgego A100; Henze I, p.82-83; cf. Borba de Moraes I, p.38-39 and Bosch 199 (French editions); Sabin 1641 (Dutch editions 1754 and 1765); Cox I, p.49 (ed. London, 1740): "This famous and unfortunate expedition, consisting at the start of eight ships, was sent under the command of George Anson at the beginning of the war with Spain, to harass the Spaniards on the western coast of South America. Seven ships were lost at around Cape Horn and on the coast of Chile and out of 900 men who left England on board more than 600 perished. (...) The primary object of the expedition was not attained, but by the capture of the Manila Galleon near China, Anson and the surviving members of his crew reached England much the richer. (...) Walter's account of the voyage is a model of what such literature should be." SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXXIII.
77 2105 Anson G 
77 2105 Anson G 
- A few plates (sl.) foxed, otherwise contents clean. Upper joint very carefully restored. A very fine and attractively bound copy.
= Sabin 1629; Cox I, p.49; Borba de Moraes I, p.38: "This is a classic account of circumnavigation which has been published in countless editions in French and other languages (...)." Cox: "This famous and unfortunate expedition, consisting at the start of eight ships, was sent under the command of George Anson at the beginning of the war with Spain, to harass the Spaniards on the western coast of South America. Seven ships were lost around Cape Horn and on the coast of Chili and out of 900 men who left England on board more than 600 perished. (...) Walter's account of the voyage is a model of what such literature should be. The mournful beauty of the passage describing their approach to Cape Horn compares well with that of Masefield's in his poem Dauber." SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXXIV.
77 2106 Antisemitism Cafmeyer P de 
- Large fold. plate of the relic holder torn. Joints starting at spine-ends; corners showing.
= The legend, which takes place in the 14th century Brussels, tells of the miraculous return of sacred hosts after they were stolen from the church by a group of Jewish people. Six Jewish people were sentenced to death for the "killing" of the sacred hosts. Title page reads 'Eersten druck' and 'nieuwen Druck'.
77 2107 Antonides van der Goes J 
- Contemp. owner's entry ("J. de Fremeri") on title; waterstained throughout.
= The first part contains "De Ystroom. Begreepen in vier boeken" (etched frontisp. and 5 plates by ROMEYN DE HOOGHE (Landwehr, R. de Hooghe as bookill. 9 (listing the first ed. 1671)).
BOUND WITH: 2 others by/ on the same: Trazil, of overrompelt Sina (ibid., 1685) and Het leven van Joannes Antonides vander Goes (n.pl., n.d.).
77 2108 Antonides van der Goes J 
- Pastedowns loose. Vellum duststained. = Landwehr, R. de Hooghe as book ill. 9.
77 2109 Antonides van der Goes J 
= Landwehr, R. de Hooghe as bookill. 9 (listing the first ed. 1671); Nijhoff/ Van Hattum 7 (note).
BOUND WITH: 2 others by the same: Trazil, of overrompelt Sina (ibid., n.d.) and Gedichten (ibid., 1702).
77 2110 Arabia Niebuhr C 
77 2110 Arabia Niebuhr C 
- Partly (sl.) waterstained (sl. affecting only a few of the minor plates). Paper over covers worn/ sl. dam.
= Tiele 795; Howgego N24; cf. Graesse IV, 674; Cox I, 237; Aboussouan 682-683 and Lipperheide Lc6. Carsten Niebuhr (1733-1815) travelled extensively in Arabia, Persia, Palestine and Asia Minor, and became by his descriptions and maps and the richness of his observations the pioneer of a more profound knowledge of the Orient. Henze III, p.610: "Als erste literarische Hauptfrucht der langen Reise veröffentlichte er in 1772 die Beschreibung von Arabien, ein Werk klassischen Gepräges, das mehr Stoff darbrachte als alle früheren europäischen Werke zusammengenommen; hinzu kam, daß es großenteils auf Autopsie basierte. N. hielt sich fern von jeder Kompilation nach anderen Autoren und trug nur vor, was er selbst beobachtet und gesammelt hatte". "His accounts are probably the best and most authentic of their day" (Cox). On Niebuhr see also Europa und die Orient, cat. 1/190. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXXIV.
Michaëlis, J.D. Vragen aan een gezelschap van geleerde mannen, die op bevel zyner majesteit des Konings van Denemarken naar Arabie reizen. Ibid., iidem, 1774, XLVI,270,(2)p., contemp. boards, 4to.
- Mouldy towards the end; a few leaves loose. Backcover loose and paper over boards dam. Sold w.a.f.
77 2111 Architecture Blondel J F 
77 2111 Architecture Blondel J F 
77 2111 Architecture Blondel J F 
- Contemp. owner's entry in pen and ink on title-p. of plate vols.; contents w. minor defects. Bindings (sl.) rubbed; a few corners showing. All in all, a very good to fine series.
= SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXXV.
77 2112 Architecture Campen J van 
77 2112 Architecture Campen J van 
- A few plates (incl. title-p.) sl. yellowed. Contents otherwise fine. Frontcover detached; binding worn/ dam. along extremities.
= Despite faulty binding, an attractive copy of this famous work on the Amsterdam municipal building designed by Jacob van Campen and built between 1648 and 1655. Kat. Orn. Berlin 2235. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXXV.
77 2113 Architecture Campen J van 
77 2113 Architecture Campen J van 
77 2113 Architecture Campen J van 
77 2113 Architecture Campen J van 
- Lacks 2 plates showing the tympanum (no. 9 and 13); a few plates (incl. title-p.) sl. yellowed; owner's stamps on upper endpaper of "Dr. Carl Rohrbach Gotha" and "Eberhard". Contents otherwise fine. Corners sl. worn; spine-ends chipped; a few rubbed spots on covers.
= Interesting provenance: the library of the abbey of Gandersheim, with a manuscript statement of donation by the abbess of Gandersheim, Elisabet Ernestine Antoinette von Sachsen-Meiningen, to the Abbey library with her engr. bookplate (engr. by Martin Tyroff) below on the upper pastedown: "Je destine ce livre à la chambre d'Architecture à ma Maison de Brunshausen le 16. de dec. 1727 Elisabet Ernestine Antoinette Ab. D.G.D.V. SM[?]". Also with a manuscript dedication by a certain C.F. de Bronsart on the first free endpaper, dated "à Gandersheim Le 14. Decem.: 1727.", stating that he had offered the work as a birthday present to the Abbess (C.F. de Bronsart is known to have donated another work to the Abbess on her birthday in 1730, but we could not further identify him/ her). The following is a quote from the data of the the online reconstruction of the library of the Gandersheim Abbey (see: https://bibliotheksrekonstruktion.hab.de/gandersheim/gandersheim.xml), in which both the copy that we offer here and the name of C.F. de Bronsart are recorded:
"Die Bibliothek wurde von Fürstäbtissin Elisabeth Ernestine Antonie von Sachsen-Meiningen (1681-1766) mit Unterstützung ihres Haushofmeisters Johann Anton Kroll von Freyen (1666-1749) durch Ankauf auf dem internationalen Buchmarkt sowie durch teils erbetene Schenkungen geschaffen. Die Bibliothek befand sich in einem prächtig ausgestatteten Raum im Nordflügel des Abteigebäudes. Bücher, Graphikmappen und Münzsammlung waren in 11 Schränken und drei Kommoden systematisch geordnet untergebracht. Die Stiftsbibliothek umfasst etwa 1000 Titel in 1400 Bänden. In der Sammlung befanden sich auch Buchbestände aus der Sommerresidenz der Fürstäbtissin in Brunshausen. Diese Bände waren einheitlich in Leder gebunden und teilweise mit dem goldenen Stiftswappen und dem Exlibris der Äbtissin versehen. Widmungen weisen auf die jeweiligen Stifter hin. Nach der Aufhebung des Stiftes 1810 wurden wesentliche Teile der Bibliothek von Karoline Ulrike Amalie von Sachsen-Coburg-Saalfeld nach Coburg gebracht wo sie bis heute in der Landesbibliothek und den Kunstsammlungen erhalten sind. Die ebenfalls von Elisabeth Ernestine Antonie gegründete, in der Stiftskirche aufgestellte Stiftskirchenbibliothek befindet sich heute als Depositum im Predigerseminar Braunschweig." The abbey was dissolved in 1810.
Despite the missing plates, an attractive copy of this famous work on the Amsterdam municipal building designed by Jacob van Campen and built between 1648 and 1655. Kat. Orn. Berlin 2235.
77 2114 Architecture Duhamel du Monceau H L 
- Occas. sl. yellowed. = From Descriptions des Arts et Métiers.
AND 3 others similar, all in contemp. wr., large folio: IDEM, Art du cirier (Paris, 1762, 8 engr. plates. Plates waterst. in lower margin); IDEM, De la forge des enclumes (ibid., 1762. Lacks the plate; 2 lvs. waterst. in upper margin); A.D. FOUGEROUX DE BONDAROY, Art de tirer des carrières la pierre d'ardoise (Paris, n.d., 2 (of 4) engr. plates. Lacks 2 plates). - ADDED: 44 plates from DIDEROT and D'ALEMBERT's Encyclopédie (±1770, folio): Agriculture Economie Rustique (various mills, 9x); Tonnelier (8x); Potier d'Étain (Bimblotier) (15x) and Fayancerie (12x).
77 2115 Architecture Duhamel du Monceau H L Fourcroy de Ramecourt C R and Gallon ? 
- Backstrip dam./ lacking. Contents fine.
= From Descriptions des Arts et Métiers. Poggendorff I, p.618 and 783.