5226 - 5490 FINE ARTS - DUTCH TOPOGRAPHY. MAPS, PLANS and VIEWS
- Rotterdam and Amsterdam plates sl. foxed/ fingersoiled. Otherwise very fine.
= Cat. NHSM p. 319, Tiele 3. The second edition, enlarged with views of Batavia and Onrust. The first edition (without text) was published in 1802. Comprises i.a. views of the sea-harbours of i.a. Amsterdam (2x), Rotterdam (2x), Texel, Edam, Middelburg and Hoorn and plates depicting whaling and herring fishery. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XLVII.
- Three vertical folds.
= "(...) waar op afgetekend zyn de meest Uitgeveende en wederom met Bagger volgeloopen sudzige en driftige Rietlanden tusschen het Oost Einder Dykie of Voet Pad [presently the Oosteinderweg] en het Groote Haerlemmer of Leidsche Meer". Issued with the resolution of 19 July 1774 (not present). Van den Brink 135; Koeman, Handleiding 38. Provenance: the collection A.M. van den Broek.
- A few closed tears in blank margins; otherwise fine.
= Guicciardini Illustratus 1.2: numb. "50" in lower right corner.
- Folds (as publ.); a few tiny holes in lower right blank margin; sl. yellowed/ age-toned.
= Guicciardini Illustratus 1.2.
= From J. WAGENAAR, 't Verheugd Amsterdam (1768). Landwehr, Splendid ceremonies 256; Atlas van Stolk V, 4183; F.M. 4210.
"Afbeelding vande twee Blokhuizen op den Amstel voor Amsterdam, gebouwt in het jaar 1650." Engraving by B. PICART after P. NOLPE, 25,5x34 cm., w. engr. caption below. - AND 8 other engravings, i.a. of Maria de Medici visiting the Oudezijds Voorburgwal (by S. SAVERIJ, from C. BARLAEUS, Maria de Medicis, 1638/ 1639) and "Op de inwyding van den Nieuwen Schouwburg te Amsterdam, den vyftienden september" (by N. VAN DER MEER, from Historie van den nieuwen Amsterdamschen schouwburg, 1775).
- Formerly folded; duststains and soiled in outer margins and a brownish stain near upper right corner of image.
= Scarce. F.M. 4463-a.
- Sl. browned/ foxed.
= "Aankomst van Hunne Doorluchtige en Koningklyke Hoogheden (...) Aan de Haarlemmer Poort der Stad Amsteldam"; "Aankomst (...) aan het Stadhuis der Stad Amsteldam"; "Afbeelding van den Grooten Maaltyd, gegeven door de Ed: Achtb: Regeering der Stad Amsteldam (...) in Schepens-kamer"; "Zittingneming van Zyne Doorl. Hoogheid (...) in het Edel-Mogende Col. ter Admiraliteit te Amsteldam". Landwehr, Splendid ceremonies 256; Atlas Van Stolk V, 4183; F.M. 4210a (1, 2, 4 and 9).
Meer Jr., Noach van der (1741-1822). "De raadkamer op het stadhuis te Amsteldam (...)/ La chambre de conseil à lhotel de ville dAmsteldam (...)." Engraving after WILLEM KOK, 46,5x36,5 cm., title in Dutch and French caption below the image, Amst., J. de Jongh, ±1790.
- Sl. browned.
ADDED: Tanjé, Pieter (1706-1761). "Willem Carel Hendrik Friso." Engraving after GERARD SANDERS, 36x22,8 cm., "Societ. Bibliopol. Rotterod. Excudit", 1750.
- Sl. browned.
- Sl. dustsoiled, mostly in margins. = Proof before letters. F.M. 5134-a.
- Print w. flattened horizontal fold en a few miniscule holes. Text part w. waterstain below the printer's/ publisher's address.
= Our copy with a mansucript annotation in lower margin print "Fritzius fec" in pen and ink. Very nice and rare print, showing the menagerie at the inn of Jan Berentsz. Westerhof, a.k.a. "Blaauw Jan", at the Cloveniersburgwal in Amsterdam. At this popular small zoo, that existed between 1675 or 1695 and 1784, various kinds of (wild) animals, and human beings, were exhibited, such as the dwarf Wybrant Lolkes, "niet hooger dan 29 Duim", and the giant Cajanus, who was "8 Amsterdamsche voeten en 9 duim hoog". SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XLVII.
- Title strip cut off from top margin; sm. portion in centre of lower margin torn off (affecting sm. part (1x1,5 cm.) of image); approx. 15 restored/ closed sm. holes.
= Hameleers I, 45, 1st ed. (of 7).
AND two 18th historical plans of Amsterdam (1x dam.)
= Hameleers 99, 1st state (of 4); d'Ailly 253.
AND a view of Amsterdam by T. BOWLES: "A General View of the city of Amsterdam from the Tye." (±1760, browned/ folded).
- Address of Clement de Jonghe partly erased; agetoned and w. a few dustspecks; sm. closed tear in left edge.
= Rare. A never executed design for a church tower. The print is very similar to Hollar's famous print of the church tower of Antwerp. Orn Cat II 4052.
- Sl. stained; owner's entry on upper pastedown. Frontcover loose; title-piece lacks sm. portion in left margin.
= Hameleers 190.
AND 3 others similar, i.a. Gids en stratenplan van Amsterdam (ibid., 1928, orig. wr., sm. 8vo).
- Trimmed to the borderline; vaguely waterstained. = Rare.
= Anonymous copy after Bolswert with the composition mirrored. The Rijksmuseum owns another state of the print with a different address "Excusum in aedibus Cornelii Joannis" (according to them publ. by Claes Jansz. Visscher).
Idem (after). (The same view). Engraving, 23x32,4 cm., publ. by J. Hondius, 1614.
- Lower margin trimmed to the borderline; left margin w. sm. defects.
= With the building mirrored to Bolswert, but the figures not. From J. PONTANUS, Historische beschrijvinghe der seer wijt beroemde coop-stadt Amsterdam (1614).
Visscher, Claes Jansz. (1586-1652). "Bursa Amsterodamensis" (Bird's eye view of the Amsterdam stock exchange). Etching, 25,2x32,2 cm., "CJ Visscher fecit Ao. 1612" in the plate.
= Hollstein 418. From GUICCIARDINI, Beschryvinghe van alle de Neder-landen (Amst., 1612).
AND 2 other views of the stock exchange.
- Plate XI trimmed to the image and sl. nibbled by silverfish.
= Plates from the work Architectura moderna ofte bouwinge van onsen tyt (1621 or 1631). Plate XII (front façade of the Westerkerk) with the upper sections of the bell tower added in pen and brown ink on 17th century paper. This version of the tower was built in 1638. The original octagonal design by Hendrick de Keyser can be seen in plate XII.
AND 2 others by D. DANCKERTS: large interior views of the Amsterdam city Hall (Paleis op de Dam). - AND views (exterior and interior) of the Westerkerk by possibly Daniel STOOPENDAAL (uncut sidepanels of the 'Caart vande Sitplaat-sen inde Wester-Kerk'). - ADDED: a view of the façade of Trippenhuis by J. VINGBOONS and a large (dam.) façade view of Corvershof.
- Folded; sl. offsetting along edges; waterstain in lower left corner.
= One of 17 prints from N. LISTINGH, Nievv desseyn tot een Seer Groote, Stercke, en om te hooren, heel bequame Coupel-Kerck.
- Upper sheet waterstained in right margin of image and sl. waterstained in left blank margin; lower sheet lacks a small portion of the sky section in upper left corner.
= Very rare. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XLVIII.
- The 1st print w. vertical fold in text margin; dustsoiled. Second print in good/ fine condition.
= Second print, proof before letters (incl. a duplicate and a copy with the letters). Pendants, situated on Dam-square, one facing the Nieuwe Kerk, the other facing the Kalverstraat. Lively views. F.M. 5349a and 5405a.
AND 4 others, i.a. P. VAN LIENDER, "Overblijfselen der Kruytmakerije Sollenburg aan de Overtoomse Weg by Amsterdam, gesprongen den 14 Aug.1758".
- The 2nd print w. some translucent brown stains, mostly in margins; 2nd print trifle duststained in the margins.
= First print, proof before letters. Pendants, situated on Dam-square, one facing the Nieuwe Kerk, the other facing the Kalverstraat. Lively views. F.M. 5349a and 5405a.
"Afbeelding der Illuminatie van het Stadhuis te Amsteldam, by gelegenheid dat Hunne Doorluchtige en Koninklyke Hoogheden, de gemelde Stad met Hoogst-Derzelver tegenwoordigheid verëerden. Den 31 May, 1768."
Engr. view by S. FOKKE, 28x38,5 cm., Amst., J. Smit, 1768.
= Lively view. Landwehr, Splendid ceremonies 256; F.M. 4210 (6); Atlas van Stolk V, 4183.
AND 1 other from the same series.