2990 - 3707 OLD and RARE BOOKS
82 3010 America Portlock N and Dixon G 
82 3010 America Portlock N and Dixon G 
82 3010 America Portlock N and Dixon G 
- Libr. stamps on recto and verso of title-p.; two plates bound too close to inner margin. Rebacked, recased and w. new endpapers. Otherwise a fine and complete copy.
= Tiele 878; Sabin 64395; cat. NHSM I, p.270; Howes 494; Hill I, 239. First Dutch edition of this work, first published London, 1789. Important account of a trade mission to the North-West coast of America, which contributed much to the knowledge of the Americas in Western Europe.
82 3011 Amersfoort Matthaeus A ed 
- Lacks the engr. view. Erroneous page numbering, but text complete; later owner's entry on first free endpaper. Vellum sl. darkened along extremities.
= Nijhoff/ Van Hattum 254; Bodel Nijenhuis 2496.
BOUND BEFORE: Leyden, J. van. Chronicon Egmundanum seu Annales Regalium abbatum Egmundensium. Ed. A. Matthaeus. Ibid., idem, 1692, (16),267,(1)p.
- Trifle yellowed in outer blank margin.
Matthaeus, A. De rebus Ultrajectinis et inprimis de bello cum Covordensibus, Tarantiis, seu Drentinis olim gesto auctoris incerti (...). The Hague, G. Block, 1740, (48),240,(4)p., contemp. blindst. vellum, 4to.
- Libr. stamp on title-p. Frontcover dampstained along outer and lower margin. Otherwise fine.
82 3012 Amersfoort Ordonnantie der stadt Amersfoort 
82 3012 Amersfoort Ordonnantie der stadt Amersfoort 
- Lower corner of title-p. and 1 textleaf torn off (affecting 1 letter on title-p.); contents loose(ning); first 4 leaves trifle dampstained. Otherwise fine.
= Contemp. annots. in pen and ink in margins. Extremely rare; not in Tiele. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXVIII.
AND 2 others, i.a. ORDONNANTIE DER STADT AMERSFOORT GEMAECKT IN 'T JAER ONS HEEREN M.D.XLIIII (Utr., 1643 ("Nae de copye (...) Anno 1554"), woodcut coat of arms on title-p., w. plain grey backwr. Lacks frontwr).
82/3013 Amsterdam and surroundings Handvesten ofte privilegien ende octroyen mitsgaders willekeuren costuimen ordonnantien en handelingen der stad Amstelredam 
82/3013 Amsterdam and surroundings Handvesten ofte privilegien ende octroyen mitsgaders willekeuren costuimen ordonnantien en handelingen der stad Amstelredam 
82/3013 Amsterdam and surroundings Handvesten ofte privilegien ende octroyen mitsgaders willekeuren costuimen ordonnantien en handelingen der stad Amstelredam 
- Occas. sl. foxed/ waterstained. All bindings heavily chafed and worn; two tickets at foot of spine (covered w. tape).
82/3014 Amsterdam and surroundings Reglement voor het makelaars gild 
- A few leaves sl. stained.
AND 1 others 19th cent. publication on the subject.
82 3015 Amsterdam and surroundings Schenk P 
82 3015 Amsterdam and surroundings Schenk P 
- Sm. libr. stamp on dedic. leaf; outer blank edge sl. stained throughout.
= Hollstein 1098-1197.
82 3016 Amsterdam and surroundings Wagenaar J 
82 3016 Amsterdam and surroundings Wagenaar J 
82 3016 Amsterdam and surroundings Wagenaar J 
- Vol. 2 lacks as usual p.181-182; 1 map and a few lvs. sl. waterst. (in blank margin). Bindings sl. rubbed. A fine set.
= EXTRA ILLUSTRATED copy, with 81 plates (incl. frontisp.) as usual and with 54 extra plates (numb. I-LXX, some lvs. w. 2 ills.) as called for in an extra binder's index in vol. 3. Nijhoff/ Van Hattum 311. As often without the fourth volume published 21 years after the third volume.
82 3017 Amsterdam and surroundings Wagenaar J 
82 3017 Amsterdam and surroundings Wagenaar J 
82 3017 Amsterdam and surroundings Wagenaar J 
- Vol. 2 lacks as usual p.181-182. Portrait of Wagenaar yellowed and loosely inserted (possibly from a another copy); plate 64 ("Het Oude zyds- Huyszitten-Aalmoesseniers-Huis") yellowed. A fine and attractively bound set.
= Nijhoff/ Van Hattum 311. As often without the fourth volume published 21 years after the third volume. SEE ILLLUSTRATION PLATE LXIX.
82 3018 Arabia Niebuhr C 
82 3018 Arabia Niebuhr C 
82 3018 Arabia Niebuhr C 
- Lacks 2 plates. Simple and sl. worn binding.
= 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. 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.
BOUND WITH: 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,(1)p.
- Last leaf mounted on pastedownn
82/3019 Arabian nights Arabian Nights Entertainments consisting of one thousand and one stories realted by the Sultaness of the Indies 
82/3019 Arabian nights Arabian Nights Entertainments consisting of one thousand and one stories realted by the Sultaness of the Indies 
- All vols. w. owner's stamp on title; one plate w. sm. inkstain. Paper over covers sl. rubbed.
= "Translated from the Arabian Manuscript into French, By M. Galland, (...) from which this translation is taken" (title). Rare edition.
82 3020 Architecture Anonymous 
= Interesting excercise(?) book, with numerous very precise drawings, ranging from (increasingly complicated) geometrical drawings (i.a. showing how to draw an ellipse with the use of two circles) to drawings of constructions of parts of buildings (such as a "Mansarde Kap", a "Hang-kapgebint" and a "Trap met verdreven treden", "Een Rijwielstandaard voor 12 en 6 Rijwielen" (dated "1906" and carrying the name of "M. Korstanje. Wemeldingen")), "Hekwerk Den Haag") and finally to drawings of (mostly, if not all) existing buildings (i.a. the "Kurhaus Egmond", "Groote Kerk te Pretoria", "Villa Oostwal Goes" and "Burgemeesterswoning te Baarn").
82 3021 Architecture d'Aviler C A 
- Old owner's entries on title-p. blotted out w. ink; fingersoiled; bookblock split(ting); a few lvs./ quires loose. Binding worn and dam.
= Cf. Millard 14 and 15 (other editions).
82 3022 Architecture Dietterlin W 
82 3022 Architecture Dietterlin W 
82 3022 Architecture Dietterlin W 
- Mediocre copy: lacks general title, portrait (as often) and 5 plates; several plates prob. from other copies (loosely inserted) and w. dam. margins; yellowed/ soiled and (water)stained. Binding worn and dam. Sold w.a.f.
= Millard III, 29 and p.25ff; Kat. Orn. Berlin 1942; cf. Cicognara 491. "What makes Dietterlin's decorative style so unique and important for architecture is two-fold: first, the very high artistic quality of the plates; and second, the way in which the painter (as he identifes himself on the title-page) attempts to interpret the Vitruvian and Serlian tradition of classical architecture in a private, lively, and imaginitive style that was, as one of his earlier biographers phrased it, "almost impressionistic", if not a forerunner to the German baroque". (Millard).
82 3023 Architecture Fleuret F 
82 3023 Architecture Fleuret F 
- Bookplate on upper pastedown; plates (sl.) foxed; final plates sl. waterst. in lower blank margin. Sl. rubbed/ worn along extremities.
= Rare work by Fleuret, professor of architecture at the École royale militaire in Paris, on his rediscovery of ancient Roman construction techniques and formulas for making artificial stone or concrete, and the methods of production used at his own manufactory in Pont-à-Mousson. Cf. Elton Engineering Books, Cat. 6 (1991), 211.
82 3024 Architecture Goetghebuer P J 
82 3024 Architecture Goetghebuer P J 
82 3024 Architecture Goetghebuer P J 
- Waterstain in lower margin; sl. foxed (mostly in margins); bookplates on upper pastedown. Corners worn; spine-ends and covers rubbed and w. chafed spots.
= Not in the usual reference works. With a later added lithographed portrait mounted on verso first free endpaper. Although the title implies the entire kingdom of the Netherlands, the main focus of the author lies on classicist buildings in the part of the kingdom that is now Belgium.
82 3025 Architecture Pozzo A 
82 3025 Architecture Pozzo A 
82 3025 Architecture Pozzo A 
82 3025 Architecture Pozzo A 
- The first part only. Lacks title-p.; 1st plate loose; sl. foxed and (finger)soiled. Binding badly worn. Sold w.a.f.
= Fowler 253 and Kat. Orn. Berlin 4726 (both Augsb. edition 1708-1711); cf. The Mark J. Millard Architectural Collection 103. In teaching perspective, Pozzo used examples of details from his own buildings including unexecuted projects. His ability to synthesize seemingly incompatible sources influenced the next generation of Italian architects. "(...) the crowning glory of the baroque art of illusion, of negating the distinction between the real and the imaginary or theatrical - the world of frescoes and quadratura painting, and of scenography, arts in which Pozzo excelled" (auction cat. Library of the late M.F.d.C., 1995, no. 253).
82 3026 Architecture Scamozzi V 
82 3026 Architecture Scamozzi V 
- (Sl.) browned/ soiled/ and partly waterst., also affecting the plates; pastedowns loose and stained. Binding darkened/ soiled.
= Not in Fowler. The engr. title w. the address of Hendrick Doncker, Amst., and a cartouche reading "WisConstich bewijs over de uytnementheyt der 5 Colommen, van de voornaemste meesters (door) Joost Vermaarsch in Leyden".
82 3027 Architecture Scamozzi V 
82 3027 Architecture Scamozzi V 
- Frontisp. loose, sl. frayed and soiled/ stained (mainly in margins); a few lvs. w. sm. wormhole; sl. foxed and thumbed/ soiled throughout; last 4 plates w. stain in lower margin, extending into image; endpapers loose and sl. dam. Binding darkened/ soiled.
= Cf. Fowler 299.
82 3028 Architecture Schübler J J 
82 3028 Architecture Schübler J J 
82 3028 Architecture Schübler J J 
82 3028 Architecture Schübler J J 
- Inner margin of frontisp. strengthened and lower blank margin waterstained; title sl. foxed.
= Rare work by Johann Jacob Schübler (1689-1741), important Nuremberg architectural theoretician, in which he shows the geometrical basis for exact architectonical designs. Kat. Orn. Berlin 4731.
82 3029 Architecture Schübler J J 
- Trifle foxed. Otherwise fine. = Beautiful plates of baroque chamber-stoves. Kat. Orn. Berlin 3836.