763 - 877 DUTCH HISTORY and TOPOGRAPHY
- Lacks plate III as always (replaced by a portrait of Rembrandt). Plates occas. sl. foxed/ soiled (1x cut sl. short). Backstrip sl. dam.; letters sl. faded.
= Published in the series: L'Univers pittoresque. Histoire et description de tous les peuples.
= Copy of the original Panorama issue of December 1965 containing a highly controversial article on Claus von Amsberg ("De jeugd van de prins-gemaal", p.10-12) i.a. reflecting on the prince's military service in the German army in the last year of WW II. The issue was immediately withdrawn from circulation and replaced by a censored version with a different article on p.10-12. Only a few copies of the original version were sold. As a result, G.J. Vermeulen was immediately fired as Panorama's editor-in-chief.
WITH a copy of the censored version.
- Soiled and w. stains on front and backp.
= Rare, no other copies traced by us. Perhaps printed as a souvenir. With i.a. extracts of the birth certificates of the later kings Willem II and III of the Netherlands.
- Owner's entry on title-p.; map worn; some foxed spots. Binding trifle worn.
- Minor imperfections. = De Buck 597.
= Detailed study of the 18th cent. warship the 'Delft', which sank off the coast of Scheveningen in 1797 during the naval battle of Camperduin.
Hoving, A.J. Nicolaes Witsens Scheeps-bouw-konst open gestelt. Ibid., idem, 1994, 412p., 5 fold. plans loosely inserted in rear pocket, full-p. ills., 4 tables, orig. cl. w. dustwr., 4to. Paesie, R. Het VOC-fluitschip Stavenisse en de ontdekking van Terra Natal. Amst., De Bataafsche Leeuw, 2002, 237p., ills., orig. cl. w. dustwr., 4to.
- Owner's entry on first free endpaper.
Idem. Het VOC-schip Ravesteyn. De laatste reis van een Zeeuwse Oostindiëvaarder. Ibid., idem, 1999, 205p., (col.) ills., orig. cl. w. dustwr., 4to.
- Owner's entry on first free endpaper.
AND 9 others, i.a. D.A. AGIUS, In the Wake of the Dhow (Reading, 2002, ills., orig. cl. w. dustwr.) and A. DOEDENS and H. LOOIJESTEIN (introd.), Op jacht naar Spaans zilver (Hilversum, 2008, ills., orig. boards).
- Frontisp. w. sm. dam. spot.
AND 2 others: A.J.J. MULDER a.o., De eeuw van de 'Nederland' (Zierikzee, 2003, num. ills., orig. boards, 4to) and HET PRINSENJACHT PIET HEIN (Schiedam, 1937, ills., obl. 8vo).
- Owner's entry on first blank. Spine sunned.
Staalman, G. Handleiding tot het verkrijgen van maten en modellen van zeilen (...). Ibid., A.J. Hilgersom/ Navigare, 1979, 2 vols., text vol.: 110,XIVp., 2 fold. tables loosely inserted in rear pocket; plate vol.: (4)p., 34 fold. plates, loosely inserted in orig. (unif. bound) portfolio. Idem. Leerboek voor den zeilmaker (...). Ibid., idem, 1979, 79,(1)p., 5 fold. plates loosely inserted in rear pocket, bound unif. w. the preceding. - AND 10 others (incl. 1 duplicate), i.a. D. KEMP, Manual of Yacht and Boat Sailing. Introd. J. Leather (Southampton, 1988, ills., orig. cl. w. dustwr., obl. 4to); E. VON HOLST, Die Eisyacht (Berlin, 1925, (fold.) ills., orig. cl.); T. HUITEMA, Lemsteraken van visserman tot jacht (Weesp, 1982, orig. artif. leather, 4to) and J.F.M. BOS (ed.), Schepen die blijven (Amst., 1999, (col.) ills., orig. boards, 4to).
- First 4 textlvs. trifle waterstained in outer blank margin. Spine-ends and corners sl. worn.
= Cat. NHSM II, p.1001.
BOUND WITH: Twent, A.C. Verzameling der Nederlandsche Zee-kunstwoorden en spreekwijzen, overgebragt in het Fransch en Engelsch. Ibid., idem, 1833, 2nd ed., (2),192,(3)p.
- Owner's annots. in ballpoint throughout. = Cat. NHSM II, p.1001.
= Werken van de Linschoten-Vereeniging, vol. XCIV and XCVI.
AND 15 others, i.a. SAILING LETTERS. Journaal I-IV (ibid., 2008-2011, 4 vols., ills., orig. unif. boards); B. OOSTERWIJK, Koning van de koopvaart (Amst., 1996, ills., orig. cl. w. dustwr.) and A.E. LEUFTINK, Harde heelmeesters (ibid., 2008, ills., orig. boards.).
- The atlas only, without the text. Spine portfolio split; covers sl. rubbed and soiled. = Cat. NHSM p.785.
- Without the text vol. Bookplate on upper pastedown; inner hinge weak. Otherwise fine.
= Cat. NHSM p.758.
- Vaguely waterst. in lower corner (also affecting binding). Spine sl. chafed and w. sm. tickets.
= From the library of Henk Visser, with his bookplate on upper pastedown.
- Plates in fine condition (1x w. sm. tear). Backstrip dam.; sl. worn along edges.
= The "24-centimeter iron guns" were rifled breech loaders based on the French gun "Modèle 1864-66", introduced from 1870 onwards to arm the positions in the Dutch cities Den Helder, Willemstad, Hellevoetsluis and Amsterdam (see website Nationaal Militair Museum).
- Partly unopened copy; upper hinge sl. weak.
Doorman, H.J. Het Nederlandsche snelvuur-veldgeschut. Haarlem, V. Loosjes, 1906, VIII,186p., fold. lithogr. plate, modern giltlettered cl., orig. frontwr. pres.
- Some foxing; frontwr. w. closed tear and stamp.
AND 11 others, mostly small publications, incl. instruction manuals on field artillery and cannons.