2806 - 3510 OLD and RARE BOOKS
- Lacks all maps; waterstained throughout. Binding heavily worn along extremities.
= Tiele 6; NHSM I, p.107. The second volume only of Van der Aa's rare collection of voyages, solely devoted to the travels of the Portuguese. Seven more volumes were published by Van der Aa (the first vol. on the voyages of the Portguese; 2 vols. on the voyages of the Spaniards; 2 vols. on those of the English and 2 vols. on the voyages of other nations). Sold w.a.f.
- Lacks 1 plate; 2 plates section torn off along fold; 5 plates w. (restored) tears, mostly along fold(s); general (h)title dam./ section torn off; occas. sl. waterst./ fingersoiled. Vellum heavily soiled. Sold w.a.f.
= Cf. Tiele 5 and Cat. NHSM p.107. Contains 6 travels in 5 parts: 1. Rampspoedige water-togt door Franciscus de Porras, Met eenige Muitelingen van Jamaica naa Hispaniola vrugteloos ondernoomen, In 't Jaar 1504 (...) Beneffens de Zee-Togt van Ferdinandes Cortes, in 't zelve Jaar gedaan naar Hispaniola (...); 2. Roem-rugte scheeps-togt van Francisco d'Almeida na Oost-Indien (...) in 't Jaar 1505; 3. Scheeps-togt van Pedro da Nhaya Na Oost-Indien, Met een Vloot van 8 Scheepen, in het Jaar 1505 (...); 4. Eerste scheeps-togt ter verdere Ontdekkinge van de West-Indien, door Jean Dias de Solis en Vincent Jamez Pinzon, gedaan naar Jukatan; in 't Jaar 1506 5. Scheeps-togt Van Tristano d'Acunha Na Oost-Indien, met een Vloot van 14 Scheepen, in het Jaar 1506.
- Final few leaves trifle wormholed in upper margin (touching the running title). Vellum duststained/ darkened.
= Rare.
AND 2 others, both incomplete, i.a. J. and C. LUYKEN, Spiegel van het menselyk bedryf (...) (Amst., 1704, ±80 (of 100) engr. plates, contemp. vellum. Contents partly dam. and/ or soiled; vellum soiled).
- Library stamp on titles; occas. (sl.) yellowed/ foxed. Frontcover of vol. 1 detached; all vols. joints split(ting); corners showing; all vols. w. dam. spots along edges.
- Lacks 4 full-p. plates and 1 map; large map of Africa doubled on folds; 1 map loose and 1 plate lacks left panel; hinges broken causing some wrinkling to the final lvs.; sl. wormholed throughout w. some closed holes in plates and some maps.
= The second revised and best edition (first 1668). Tiele 298; Gay 219; Mendelssohn II, p.119. The first large general description of the African continent. The work is based on the early accounts of the Portuguese and Spanish explorers, the English works by Purchass and Jarrick, the journals and descriptions of Dutch navigators like Van Noort, Van Neck, Linschoten, Spilbergen, but especially on unpublished reports and eye-witness accounts of Dutch merchants, visitors and soldiers. Very detailed on the West Coast, where the Dutch ivory-, gold- and slave-trade flourished and on Angola (Luanda was captured by a WIC fleet in 1647). On the settlement on the Cape only a cursory note is found, while the surrounding tribes are described in remarkable detail. The second part, devoted to the African islands, from Malta to Madagascar, includes an ample account of the French colonization of the latter. The work is famous for its splendid detailed maps and plates, i.a. engraved after drawings by Reinier Noomsz (Zeeman).
= With filled-in letterpress prize, awarded to Jacoba Jongerling by the Doopsgezinde Kerk te Alkmaar, dated 1755, 32 Maart. The plates are from a print bible, all views from the bible book Apocalyps.
ADDED: BIBLIA, dat is (...) (Amst., 1791, contemp. gilt mottled calf, a.e.g and dec. Lacks the silver clasps and catches)
- AlmanAc fine. Slipcase duststained and rubbed. = Grand-Carteret 1680.
AND 2 other almanacs: AURORA. Jaarboekje voor 1857/ (...) 1860 (both w. steelengr. plates and in orig. not unif. gilt mor., a.e.g. Both vols. title-p. and frontisp. dampstained, both occas. foxed).
- Yellowed/ occas. heavily browned; pastedowns loosening.
= Tiele 7; Cat. NHSM p.107. The first volume only of Van der Aa's rare collection of voyages, solely devoted to the travels of the Spaniards in the West-Indies and the Americas.
- Bookplate on upper pastedown and first free endpaper. Binding trifle rubbed along edges.
= Nijhoff/ Van Hattum 104, note. Rare.
- Hinges weak, otherwise fine.
= F.M. 5407a; Atlas van Stolk 3326; Landwehr, Dutch Books w. Col. Plates 240; Lipperheide Sm13 (12 plates only).
- Upper hinge broken; occas. fingersoiled. Binding rubbed/ sl. worn.
= With the bookplate of the artist Georg RUETER.
AND 3 others, i.a. C. VAN DER VIJVER, Wandelingen in en om Amsterdam (Amst., 1829, engr. plates, contemp./ orig.(?) hcl.).
- Sl. browned, mostly along margins. Backstrip dam. and partly loose(ning).
- Very fine, clean and crisp copy.
= The first 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. Our copy with extensive additions (from 1694-1729) in later pen and ink to the letterpress lists of the Heeren XXXVI, and to the list of the Schouten, Burgermeesteren, Schepenen, Rent-meesters of Tresaurieren, Weesmeesteren &c. (...)" and to that of the "Namen van de Secretarsissen der Stad Amstelredam" (from 1693-1766). Nijhoff/ Van Hattum 66/ 67; Haitsma Mulier/ Van der Lem 116. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LIII.
- Lacks 4 plates; most plates and a few text lvs. loose; title-p. vol. 2 frayed/ sl. dam. Joints splitting.
= The first 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 66/ 67; Haitsma Mulier/ Van der Lem 116.
- Lacks 22 plates. Binding worn. Sold w.a.f.
= Nijhoff/ Van Hattum 68. The second edition (first 1693-94) 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.
- Armorial plate loose; one plate vaguely dampstained in upper corners. Otherwise a fine and very clean copy.
= Nijhoff/ Van Hattum 75. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LIII.
- Recased (a bit too tightly); frontisp. fingersoiled, a few (closed) tears and strengthened along outer margin on verso; double-p. view of Amsterdam trimmed to/ just within the borderline, otherwise contents and plates are all fine. Good copy.
= Nijhoff/ Van Hattum 80. The only edition. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LIV.
- Trifle foxed. Boardedges rubbed.
- Later annot. on first free endpaper; trifle foxed.
- In this copy the plates are bound vertically, so without central fold. Without title leaf and accompanying textlvs., plates only; apart from a few plates (1 or 2 sl. browned, a few plates w. vague yellowish stain in margin), plates (very) fine. Outer corners, spine-ends and board-edges worn (away); chafed/ worn spots near spine on lower cover.
= Nijhoff/ Van Hattum 11. "De Atlas van Fouquet is ongetwijfeld de fraaiste serie afbeeldingen die van Amsterdam bestaan. In afwijking van de vroeger verschenen series staat bij Fouquet het afbeelden van de schilderachtigste punten van de stad op den voorgrond. Hoewel zijn prenten bijna alle op de traditioneele wijze genoemd zijn naar de torens, de poorten, de kerken en de andere groote gebouwen die er op zijn voorgesteld, zijn zij echter zoo op te vatten, dat zij het stadsgedeelte weergeven, dat het genoemde gebouw omgeeft. Op die wijze verschaft de Atlas van Fouquet een wandeling door de straten en langs de grachten van het Amsterdam der XVIIIe eeuw, het Amsterdam dat nog in ongerept bezit was van haar monumentale gebouwen en huizen, en den stratenaanleg uit het bloeitijdperk; hierbij werd ook in het oog gehouden het zoo pittoreske straatbeeld dier dagen weer te geven." (Cat. Oud-Amsterdam, F. Muller, 1912). SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LIV.
- Contents water-/ mouldstained in lower part of image throughout; 2 fold. plates w. sm. tear in inner margin (1x affecting image). Frontcover sl. warped and waterst.; joints worn and splitting at (dam.) foot of spine. Sold w.a.f.
= Nijhoff/ Van Hattum 11. "De Atlas van Fouquet is ongetwijfeld de fraaiste serie afbeeldingen die van Amsterdam bestaan. In afwijking van de vroeger verschenen series staat bij Fouquet het afbeelden van de schilderachtigste punten van de stad op den voorgrond. Hoewel zijn prenten bijna alle op de traditioneele wijze genoemd zijn naar de torens, de poorten, de kerken en de andere groote gebouwen die er op zijn voorgesteld, zijn zij echter zoo op te vatten, dat zij het stadsgedeelte weergeven, dat het genoemde gebouw omgeeft. Op die wijze verschaft de Atlas van Fouquet een wandeling door de straten en langs de grachten van het Amsterdam der XVIIIe eeuw, het Amsterdam dat nog in ongerept bezit was van haar monumentale gebouwen en huizen, en den stratenaanleg uit het bloeitijdperk; hierbij werd ook in het oog gehouden het zoo pittoreske straatbeeld dier dagen weer te geven." (Cat. Oud-Amsterdam, Fred. Muller, 1912).