2685 - 3623 OLD and RARE BOOKS
- Frontisp. reattached and w. lower inner corner repaired; sl. foxed and unobtrusively waterstained in upper blank margin; new endpapers. Rebacked and corners restored w. use of modern calf.
= Gay 3125; Mendelssohn II, p.414f; Howgego S154; Henze V, p.192f; cf. Kainbacher I, p.172 (listing the edition Berlin, 1784); Cox I, p.386: "(...) adds considerably to the knowledge of South Africa at this period".
- Sl. yellowed and a few lvs. sl. browned; new endpapers.
= Tiele 361; Borba de Moraes p.329; Sabin 25927; Cat. NHSM I, p.280. First and only Dutch edition, first published in French as Relation du voyage de la mer du Sud (Paris, 1716). The ninth plate shows the Chilean game of La Sueca and is widely regarded as the earliest depiction of a form of golf. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE CXXXVIII.
- Offsetting from title-p. on map; occas. yellowed/ sl. browned, mainly in blank margins. A good/ fine copy.
= The first English edition. Sabin 25926; Cox II, p.267; Hill 654; Borba de Moraes I, p.329; cat. Nat. Maritime Mus. 324; cf. Bosch 170; cf. Henze II, p.293f; cf. Duviols p.441-444. "This first English translation contains the same engravings as the French original, but is preferred to the latter because it contains a postscript by Edmund Halley (of comet fame), which corrects certain geographical errors made by Frézier. (...) The frontispiece map, showing the route, was created for the English edition. (...)" (Hill). SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE CXXXVIII.
- Occas. foxed; first few quires of vol.2 sl. dampstained. Upper joint of vol.1 rubbed. Otherwise fine.
= Sabin 36804; Borba de Moraes p.430-431 (Spanish ed., mentioning a French translation, not listing a Dutch transl.); Tiele 1120; Cat. NHSM p.281. "Juan and Ulloa's Travels may be selected as the most entertaining and satisfactory work of its kind; they are the acknowledged source of much that has been published in other forms" (Sabin 36813). "This voyage arose out of the desire of the French Government (...) to send certain members of the Academy of Sciences to measure a degree of longitude in the equinoctial countries of Peru. (...) the King of Spain conceived the idea of sharing the honor of a scheme devoted to the advancement of knowledge, and sent two of the most scientific officers of the Spanish navy to accompany the expedition. This party carried on a series of operations of unexampled difficulty and encountered hardships and sufferings which demanded the strength of the strongest constitutions and the energy of minds stimulated by a love of science". (Cox II, p.275 on the English ed.). The first Dutch edition (first published in Spanish in Madrid in 1748) of this description of the whole of South America. Contains several fine and large fold. maps.
- First few lvs. sl. yellowed and trifle frayed; occas. sl. mouldy in margins; 50p. wormholed in blank fore-edge margin, occas. sl. affecting text. Vellum soiled; lower pastedown detached.
= Rare, no copies of this edition in STCN. Van der Haar, Schatkamer S722 (1st ed., 1692).
- Most vols. covers trifle/ sl. nibbled/ wormholed; spine ends partly sl. dam; corners partly sl. worn.
- Vol. 1 upper hinge weak and bookblock splitting; all vols. bookplate on upper pastedown; occas. trifle foxed. Bindings trifle worn.
= Contains the rare portrait. Buijnsters, Justus van Effen 26.1; Waller 1577.
- Lacks the portrait. Each vol. w. bookplate of N.P. van den Berg on upper pastedown; 4 vols. partly sl. wormholed in (blank) margin; occas. sl. browned. Vellum sl. soiled/ stained; vol. 1 upper joint splitting.
= As often without the portrait. Buijnsters, Justus van Effen 26.1; Waller 1577.
- Lacks the portrait; vol. 1 hinges weak, first few lvs. loosening; vols. 3 and 4 w. library stamp on first free endpaper. Joints and extremities sl. worn; backstrips sl. cracked, but otherwise a good set.
= Buijnsters, Spectatoriale geschriften 81. Not in Waller, Buisman etc.
- Occas. vaguely browned along edges. Joints starting. Otherwise a good/ fine copy.
- A very fine copy. One leaf lacks a small portion of the blank margin; the worldmap is doubled w. Japanese, but otherwise fine (old folds still vaguely visible when held to the light); English translation of the Dutch title written in late 18th/ early 19th cent. hand on verso of final blank.
= "Spilbergen's voyage was the most succesful Dutch circumnavigation to date. The fleet had kept together, there had been little loss of Dutch life, and the expedition had metted a considerable profit for its sponsors." (Howgego S159); Tiele 1025: "Dezelfde uitgave als de vorige met veranderden titel, doch dezelde titelplaat, die de 26e zal zijn op den titel bedoeld."; Tiele, Mémoire p.65b; Landwehr, VOC, 359; Cox I, p.52. On the worldmap see Shirley 304. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE CXXXIX.
- Partly waterstained; title doubled.
= At the end 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).
- Very fine copy.
= Without the (very rare) second volume (published in 1743), but complete in itself. Buisman 2225; Waller 1637; Muller 178; De Vries 252; Scheepers II, 589; Jagtenberg 27.
- Corners showing. Otherwise a fine copy.
= De Buck 2722. Van Eeghen/Van der Kellen 106. The extremely rare supplement to Aitzema's Saken van Staet en Oorlogh.
- Fine copy. = Haitsma Mulier/ Van der Lem 474a; De Wind p.471f.
- Two leaves unobtrusively restored in blank outer margin. Binding trifle darkened along margins. A fine copy.
= Engr. plan warranted by C. Elandt. The first edition, but enriched with the 5 plates published in the 2nd ed. Nijhoff/Van Hattum 77. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE CXXXVIII.
- Upper hinge broken (but holding on cords); map repaired w. tape on verso; occas. sl. foxed/ soiled. Backstrip sl. worn.
= Rare. Nijhoff/ Van Hattum 125.
- Plates often browned and foxed (mainly the double-p. plates) (the large fold. plates are fine). Third vol. coat of arms clumsily tooled w. some smudging of the gilding; spine-ends sl. worn/ chipped.
= Nijhoff/ Van Hattum 267. The finest description of The Hague. On the binding: presumably a PRESENTATION COPY. Extremely rare binding by the CB BINDERY (Delft). The first 2 volumes were bound by the bindery in Delft, the 3rd and final volume was bound by presumably the First Stadtholder Bindery (The Hague): "Four copies are known with the arms of The Hague in the centre of their covers (...) They will be presentation bindings, presumably the gift neither of the author nor the publisher, but of the town itself and intended for the many Hague functionaries to whom the book is dedicated, for other important personages and also for those who would hold these offices after 1730 (...) De Riemer published the second and final volume nine years later, not in Delft but at The Hague, with Johannes de Cros (1739). As far as is known, the CB Bindery bound no copy of it. Its brief existence had by then already come to an end." (see: Storm van Leeuwen IIA, p.404f). SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE CXXXIX.
- Contents fine; 1 vol. partly (sl.) waterst. Bindings in need of restoration: fire damage, backstrip/ covers loosening, 1 vol. lacks vellum on frontcover.
= All rare. Comprises: C. SCHULTING, Confessio Hieronymiana, ex omnibus germanis B. Hieronymi operibus optima fide collecta (Cologne, 1585, 4 parts in 1 vol.); C. JANSENIUS, Paraphrasis in omnes psalmos Davidicos cum argumentis et annotationibus (Antw., 1614, 2 parts in 1 vol., 2 ident. engr. portr. on title-p.); ANSELMUS CANTUARIENSIS, Opera omnia, extraneis in sacros Libros Commentariis exonerata (Lyon, 1630, woodcut title-vignette).
- Partly sl. browned/ foxed (the plates not affected); the fold. plate w. sm. marginal tear along fold and sm. brown spot; a few scattered old annots. in blank margins in pen and brown ink.
= First published by Goris in 1692, this is an unchanged edition.