1459 - 1507 DUTCH HISTORY and TOPOGRAPHY
- Owner's entries on title-p. of both vols. Otherwise fine.
- Portfolio worn and sl. dam.; paper over frontcover partly torn off.
- Envelope sl. creased and partly restored w. scotch tape.
= Nice world exhibition souvenir. Eight plates devoted to pavilions concerning the Dutch colonies.AND 4 others, incl. 2 photogr. souvenir leporellos (both sl. defective) and a duplicate copy of the 1st work (envelope dam./ foxed).
- Some foxing; wr. restored w. modern paper.
AND 6 others, partly on the real estate profession, i.a. NIEUWE LYSTE VAN COURTAGIE VOOR DE MAKELAARS DER STAD AMSTELREDAM (Amst., 1747, contemp. wr., sm. 4to); T. STUART, De Amsterdamsche Makelaardij (...) (ibid., 1879, orig. gilt cl., thesis) and J. TER GOUW, Een nieuw boekje over den oorsprong en de afleiding van de Amsterdamsche straatnamen (ibid., 1896, orig. gilt cl.).
- Binding trifle worn.
= Contains a nice view of the Kloveniersburgwal with the 'Trippenhuis' and a curious circular panorama of Amsterdam and its environs.
- Two bookplates on prelim. lvs. (L. Peereboom and P. Tibbe). Dam. at top of spine.
- Title-p. and maps partly sl. foxed. Spine-ends and corners worn.
= Koeman II, Mee 1 (p.274, erroneously 16 maps, corrected in VI, p.208); Phillips 3073. "G.M. Mees, a lawyer and historian, was the first to produce a historical atlas of the Netherlands. In his atlas he has introduced for the first time a correct choropleth map of the Netherlands. The contents of the original Historical Atlas of 1865 is on a very high cartographical level. Mees, Eekhoff and Staring are considered the only three intelligent Dutch cartographers of the mid-nineteenth century." (Koeman VI, p.207-208).
- Maps splitting on folds and strengthened w. scotch tape. Binding sl. (water)stained; spine-ends worn.
= Rare, not in Koeman.
AND 10 other pocket atlases, mostly Dutch, ±1880-1950, i.a. SLEESWIJK'S ZAK-ATLAS VAN NEDERLAND (Bussum, n.d., fold. col. lithogr. maps, orig. cl., obl. 12mo. Three diff. editions) and KODAK ZAKATLAS VOOR TOERISME IN NEDERLAND (n.pl., n.d., fold. col. maps, orig. boards, obl. 12mo).
- Lower hinge broken. Binding rubbed and sl. dam.
= Contains i.a. the "Rivier en kanaal kaart van de Linge en de Zederi, met derzelver verlenging, ter uitwatering aan Steenenhoek, behoorend tot de beschouwing (...), en het daartoe dienend ontwerp om een Nieuwe Merwede van Hardinxveld tot in het Hollandsch Diep te vormen, ter bedijking van de Oude verlamde Merwede en die van den geheelen Biesbosch" (31x91,5 cm.).
- Sl. worn and rubbed along extremities.
Marken, J.C. Hoofdartikelen uit de fabrieksbode. Delft, Van Markens drukkerij, ±1806, 3 vols., 532; 528; 573,XXIX,(1)p., contemp. unif. giltlettered cl. International bridge of trade - Internationale handelsbrücke. Berlin-Charlottenburg, Unsere zeit, 1925, no pagination, orig. giltlettered mor., folio.
- Last 3 lvs. loose; owner's entry/ bookplate/ stamps on first lvs. Binding sl. rubbed along extremities.
- Occas. marginally waterst. Binding worn; spine dam. = F.M. 6137.
- Upper corner first page w. cut out stamp; p.18 and 19 formerly stuck together at one place, causing dam. in text. Spine worn and pasted over w. sl. later paper and w. archive ticket.
= The map, "Ducatus Geldriae et Comitatus Zutphaniae nova tabula" (Amst., Covens and Mortier, ±1725) and w. added strip of paper at the top w. letterpress "Kaart van het voormalig Gelderland (...)", shows in colours the inundations of the Rijn, IJssel, Lek, Waal and Maas rivers occurred early 1799, one of the 'disaster years' of that period. Indicated with letters and numbers in pen and red ink are the various dyke breaches. Colours, letters and numbers are explained in the main text.
- Lacks 7 plates. Bindings worn/ dam./ w. label on frontcover.
- Occas. sl. yellowed/ maginally sl. waterst. Binding rubbed/ sl. dam.
AND 1 other: Beschrijving van den Nederlandschen Watersnood, in Louwmaand van 1820 (ibid., 1820, without the map and the plates, contemp. hcalf).
- Lacks map 2 and 18; occas. sl. foxed. Binding sl. soiled; frontcover partly dam.
= "Kaart van 23 bladen, in kleurendruk, met register van dijkshoogten, vaste hoogtemerken en steenen peilschalen, houdende de uitkomsten der opnemingen, in 1872 gelast door de Staten van beide Provinciën" (title).
Idem. Register van dijkshoogten, vaste hoogemerken en steenen peilschalen (...). Ibid., idem, 1871, 118p., orig. (damaged) wr. - AND 1 other by the same: Graphische voorstelling van de waterkeerings-hoogte der Maasdijken (ibid., 1877, charts, orig. hcl., 4to).
- Lvs. (sl.) browned. Binding worn/ dam. = Rare maps.
AND 1 other by the same: Graphische voorstelling van de waterkeerende hoogte der Rijndijken van de polderdistricten in Gelderland (...) (ibid, 1872, charts, orig. hcl., 4to).
- Lacks 2 maps. Good, untrimmed copy. Sold w.a.f.
= Bierens de Haan 4954; Van den Brink p.269.
AND an incomplete copy of Naauwkeurige beschryving der overstroomingen, benevens derzelver treurige gevolgen zo buiten als binnen deze republiek in den jaare MDCCLXXXIV voorgevallen (Leyden/ Amst., 1785, modern hcl. Lacks map and plates).
- New endpapers; occas. sl. foxed (title-p. worse); table/ maps loose(ning). Paper over hinges sl. worn
AND 3 others, i.a. 1 similar report on "Den winter van 1875 op 1876" bound unif. w. the preceding (The Hague, 1876, 1 fold. map and 4 fold. tables).
= Gouda Quint p.112f; Bodel Nijenhuis 766.
Hoet, Jz., C. ten. Het Geldersch lustoord, of beschrijving van de stad Nijmegen en derzelver omstreken. Nijm., Wed. J.C. Vieweg en Zoon, n.d. (1825), 1st ed., XVI,158,(2)p., engr. title w. vignette, modern giltlettered green cl.
- First 5 leaves sl. darkened in lower margin. = Gouda Quint p.188; Bodel Nijenhuis 654.
Engelen, A.W. Wandelingen door Gelderland en aangrenzende Noord-Noord-Brabandsche, Limburgsche en Pruisische gewesten. Gron., W. van Boekeren, 1847, (4),331,(1)p., lithogr. title-p. w. title-vignette, frontisp. showing the "Ruine te Ravenburg", modern giltlettered burgundy cl.
- Owner's stamp of the "Vicomte de Faria" on first textp.