2510 - 2895 OLD and RARE BOOKS from the library of P.J. Buijnsters and L. Buijnsters-Smets
= UNIQUE copy with the 6 original signed drawings (in pen and ink and brush and grey wash) for the engraved plates by DIRK JAN VAN DER LAAN (1759-1829) bound with. Immerzeel II, p.147: "Voor de plaatjes van enkele werkjes van zijn stadgenoot en vriend Feith, maakte de Heer van der Laan de teekeningen."
- Lacks endpapers; hinges broken but holding on cords. A fine copy.
= Buisman 558; cf. Muller 161 (Amst., 1720); cf. De Vries 86 (Amst., 1720); cf. Scheepers II, 614 (Amst., 1720).
- Letterpieces and vol. no. pieces sl. rubbed; vol. 1 top of spine sl. worn.
- A few plates sl. foxed. Binding rubbed/ sl. worn along extremities; paper over covers sl. worn/ a few chafed spots.
= Springer 68; Landwehr, Dutch Books w. Col. Plates 101. Generally nicely coloured Dutch garden atlas, with hundreds of illustrations, depicting buildings, cottages, follies, garden plans, furniture, sculpture, bridges, gates, leisure activities etc.
- Interleaved copy w. contemp. recipes in pen and ink for i.a. "Stoofvlees" and "Leverworst". Binding sl. worn. Otherwise a fine copy.
= Rare edition. Landwehr 30,10 and 34 (other editions); Bibl. Gastr. 177; Tol 30-32 (other editions); Ferro 45k; Waller 929; Oberlé 107; Horn/ Arndt 345/346. "Rond het midden van de achttiende eeuw doet een nieuw genre van kookboeken zijn intrede. Na de handboeken van de beroepskok verschijnt nu het aantekenboek van Mevrouw. Een overleden Mevrouw, gelieerd aan de hoogste kringen, laat haar collectie recepten na aan haar dienstmaagd; deze collectie, gecompleteerd met recepten van andere Mevrouwen en Juffrouwen van stand, worden volgens een bepaald systeem geordend en dan uitgegeven met de fraaie titel De Volmaakte Keuken-Meid. Die keukenmeid kan een Volmaakte Hollandsche, een Volmaakte Geldersche, een Schrandere Stichtse, een Welervarene Utrechtse of eenvoudig een Vriessche zijn. (...) De recepten kunnen overal vandaan komen; ze zijn vaak modern, maar soms ook eeuwenoud, van Franse zowel als Engelse komaf, origineel of gewoonweg uit een kookboek overgeschreven. De eerste in de rij is de Volmaakte Hollandsche keuken-meid. Het verscheen in Amsterdam in november 1745 bij Steven van Esveldt. (...).
- Usual occas. yellowing. Otherwise fine.
- Yellowed/ occas. browned; partly waterstained. Vellum sl. warped; lacks ties.
- From the library of Bob Luza w. his bookplate on upper pastedown. New endpapers. Vellum sl. darkened. A fine copy.
= Buisman 718; Waller 628; cf. Scheepers 418 (on the ed. Utr., 1790). Early Dutch edition with an interesting preface by the translators, discussing i.a. the reception of the work and the accusation that it was an apology for suicide.
- Libr. stamp and libr. ticket of the Bibliotheca Hageveldensis on first free endpaper. Lacks ties. Fine copy.
= BCNI 5566; Glasius I, 544.
- A few quires and plates (sl.) foxed. Frontcover of the first vol. darkened.
- Fine copy.
= Ter Meulen/ Diermanse 232, 913 and 1249: "L'ouvrage est en grande partie basé sur des manuscrits et des lettres manuscrites". The main old source for the study of Grotius in second edition.
- Fine copy.
= Tiele, Mémoire p.148-153; Tiele 716 "Herdruk der eerste uitgave [Amst., 1602], zonder het voorwerk, de woordenlijst en 't register. De platen komen hier in den tekst voor en zijn merendeels navolgingen, soms zeer verschillend, van de oorspronkelijke; alleen no. 15, 19 zijn latere afdrukken van dezelfde platen." First published in 1602, the work describes the voyage made by Pieter de Marees to Guinea in West Africa between 1600-1602 and was the first and most important Dutch description of the Gold Coast. The beautiful full-p. engravings as well as the interesting and accessible text of the work will certainly have given a strong impulse to the commercial interest in the area of the Dutch.
- Contents occas. trifle yellowed, otherwise fine (incl. all plates, plans and maps). First 2 bindings stained on front and backcover at upper end of both joints; final vol. covers sl. chafed and leather over frontcover darkened along outer margin; all vols. joints and corners rubbed.
= Contains maps of i.a. Haarlemmermeer, Rijnland, Gooiland, Delftland, Schieland/ Krimperwaard, Amstelland and Kennemerland and (profile) views of i.a. Amstelveen, Amsterdam, Delft, Gouda, Haarlem, Rotterdam and The Hague. Apart from plans of all the large towns in Holland, a number of plans of smaller cities are included, incl. Enkhuizen, Geertruidenberg, Gorinchem, Hellevoetsluis, Medemblik, Purmerend, Schiedam and Schoonhoven.
- Partly sl. waterstained in upper inner margin. Vellum sl. stained. Good/ fine copy.
= Gelli p.536; Thimm p.134; Landwehr, R. de Hooghe 39; Hollstein IX, 968-1038; Lipperheide Tg5. The original first, Dutch edition of this early manual of self-defence for gentlemen, with the splendid plates by Romeijn de Hooghe, etched in a fine and free manner, "one of the greatest illustrators of all times, (...) a last apotheosis of the grand Baroque Spirit before its dissolution" (Benesch). The book was published after the death of the Amsterdam wrestlingmaster Nicolaes Petter by his widow and his pupil Robbert Cars, who announces in the preface that he will continue to give wrestling lessons "op de Prince-gracht, in Gustavus-burgh".
- A fine large paper copy. (Heraldic) bookplates of Alfred Pfeiffer and F.C. Koch (1873-1957), and 2 ident. archive tickets w. gold border and crowned gold monogram "AP" or "PA" (w. resp. "1898" and "1899" in pen) on upper pastedown. Both joints starting; corners sl. worn; top of spine sm. restored spot.
= Landwehr, Splendid Ceremonies 227-228; Kat. Orn. Berl. 2967 and 2968; Lipperheide Sd 31; Vinet 642; Lotz, Feuerwerk p.105.
- Sm. libr. stamp on first free endpaper; old owner's entries on general title-p. (1x crossed out); first title-p. soiled; all parts occas. thumbed/ fingersoiled; final part partly sl. waterstained in lower blank outer corner. Vellum sl. creased.
= Very rare manual covering all aspects of 17th cent. housekeeping, with 4 attractive title-engravings. BMN I, 57.
- Upper hinge weak; 2 repaired tears in htitle; partly vaguely waterstained. Otherwise fine.
= Springer p.28-29; Landwehr, Ned. Kookboek 19,22. Charming, frequently reprinted work on gardening, garden architecture, husbandry, veterinary medicine, beekeeping and cooking. The first part on garden-architecture was written by Jan van der Groen, the gardener of the Prince of Orange. The other parts were written by Pieter Nylandt, wellknown Amsterdam physician and pharmacist. The second part deals with the work that has to be done each month in the garden. The third part is devoted to (veterinary) home-medicine, beekeeping and cooking, with 3 fine half-page title-engravings.
- Upper hinge broken but holding strong on cords. Joints split(ting); lacks ties.
= Landwehr, R. de Hooghe as book ill. 19; Scheepers I, 112.
- Owner's stamps on upper pastedown and letterpress title; partly (vaguely) waterstained, mostly in blank lower margins (occas. in blank upper margin); outer edges of first and final few quires fraying and sl. creased; pastedowns loose/ creased. Vellum over backcover sl. wrinkled; old paper ticket at foot of spine.
= Bibl. Belg. H 101.
- From the library (?) of the Grote Begijnhof in Mechelen with two contemp. annots. in pen and ink on verso first free endpaper: "[first sentence crossed out] begeynken op groet begeynhof tot mechelen woonende in sint Jans konvendt" and "desen boek hoet toe catharina de laet begijnten opt groet hoef in het sint jans convent". Leaf 41 in the first part lacks lower blank corner; bookblock shaken. Vellum stained and lacks ties.
= Belgica Typographica 5125.