1875 - 3189 OLD and RARE BOOKS
- A few pages waterstained/ soiled in lower margin (not affecting the plates); title-p. w. closed tear, yellowed, duststained and reattached; one plate (Duifduikers) closed tear, just touching image; occas. trifle foxed.
= Cat. NHSM p.900; Tiele 104; Ingalls 34/36 etc. De Jong's narrative of whalers in the Arctic, a classic of Dutch whaling literature. Extensively on the technique of catching whales, bears, sealions and herring fishery. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE CXXVIII.
- Modern annots. in pen on first free endpaper and title-p.; sl. waterst. in lower outer corner; occas. sl. foxed/ browned. Vellum sl. stained.
= First revised ed. of Wicquefort's Mémoires touchant les ambassadeurs (publ. Cologne, 1676).
- Sl. occas. yellowing; the fold. plan sl. browned. The second part ("Bijlage") without plates (cf. F.M. 5208). Very good copy.
= F.M. 5198 (the 4 fold. views of the first work). SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE CXXV.
- Contemp. owner's entry and annots. on first blanks; sl. foxed. Vellum sl. warped.
- Occas. waterstained in lower margin; large tear in fold. plate. Covers dam. due to acid-biting(?).
- Sm. stamp and sl. later owner's entries on prelim. lvs.; contemp. annots. in pen and ink thoughout.
= Knuttel 8789, 8790 en 8913. Only recently Johan de Witt was identified as the author, formerly the work was attributed to Pieter de la Court.
- Corners rubbed, otherwise fine.
= Hanou 61; Buijnsters, Spectatoriale geschriften 9; Buijnsters, Bibl. Wolff-Bekker 204 (doubting the authorship of Elisabeth Wolff-Bekker). Rare.
AND 1 other: J. SCHARP, Gedenkzuil van den Nederlandschen krijgsroem in Junij 1815 (The Hague, 1816, engr. title-p. w. vignette, large fold. map, portrait and 8 (fold.) plates, contemp. hcalf. Bookblock and map loose).
- Contents loose. Lacks backstrip.
= The first edition. Buijnsters 171; Waller 1885; Landwehr F234; The Children's World of Learning 3209.
Gellert, C.F. Fabelen en vertelsels, in Nederduitsche vaerzen gevolgd. Amst., P. Meijer, 1772-1774, 3 vols., (2),166,(6); 168,(4); (2),155,(5)p., engr. frontisp., 3 ident. title-vignettes and 137 (of 149) full-p. engravings by N. VAN DER MEER after J. BUYS, contemp. later unif. hcl.
- Lacks 12 plates.
= The first Dutch edition. Landwehr F105; cf. Bodemann II, 158, listing the edition published in 1781-1785 with the same ills.
- Bindings sl. rubbed; vol. pieces chipped/ partly lacking. = Buijnsters 190; Waller 1887; De Vries 286.
AND 1 other by the same: Historie van den heer Willem Leevend (ibid., 1784-1785, 1st ed., 8 vols., contemp. unif. hcalf. Sl. mediocre set: waterst./ partly mouldy. Bindings worn).
- Partly loose(ning). Backstrip partly worn away. Internally fine.
= Nijhoff/ Van Hattum 194; cat. NHSM p.319.
- Old owner's entry of "Daniel Hauchecorne" on title-p. and devotional title of final part; monogram of Daniel Hauchecorne ("DH") in pen and ink on both frontispieces; engr. bookplate of ACHATZ WILHELM, REICHSGRAFF VON DER SCHULENBURG on upper pastedown. Spine-ends sl. worn/ chipped.
= Gay/ Lemonnyer I, p.441.
- Two bookplates on first free endpaper in both vols.; a few fold. plates outer blank margins sl. frayed. First vol. w. sm. ticket on upper cover; binding both vols. trifle soiled.
(Heussen, H.F. van). Oudheden en gestichten van Zeeland (...). Dutch transl. H.V.R. (= H. van Rijn). Vol. 2 only. Leyden, C. Vermey, 1722, 2 parts in 1 vol., (4),56; 210,(14)p., 1 fold. engr. map, 7 fold. views, contemp. vellum.
- Lacks vol. 1. Bookplate on upper pastedown.
= Van Doorninck/ De Kempenaer, p.249; Haitsma Mulier/ Van der Lem 222.
- Bookplate on upper pastedown; 19th cent. owner's entry in pen and ink on first free endpaper; a few maps/ plates w. smaller blank margins (probably takenfrom another copy). Joints splitting; corners showing; spine-ends chipped. Contents very fine.
= With the often lacking 6 heraldic plates. Otherwise plates as listed in the binder's index. Verkruijsse 1046; Nijhoff/ Van Hattum 282. The topographic bible of 17th century Zeeland, with splendid plans and (panoramic) views. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE CXXVIII.
- Frontisp. cut trifle short in lower margin (just touching the publ. address); lacks the "Besluit tot de Zeel. Chronyk" (4p., normally bound at the end of the work); without the (often lacking) 6 armorial plates; occas. annots. in pen and ink in margins and occas. underlining and a few annots. in red pencil; fold. views generally w. defects (fraying and uststaining) in margins and (occas.) creasing on folds; specifically both the fold. views of Middelburg and panoramas of Zierikzee need flattening (the latter also w. browned false fold); fold. plan of Middelburg tears on folds and some surrounding creases; plan of Zierikzee chipped and browned in fold. margins; view of Ambachts-heerlykheyt (...) Oost-Cappelle chipped and browned in fold. margins; Het Raadhuys tot Zierikzee dam. in inner margin; lacks first free endpaper. Vellum duststained/ soiled; lower joint splitting at foot of spine.
= With the view of Popkensburg (not listed in the binder's index). Otherwise plates as listed in the binder's index. Verkruijsse 1046; Nijhoff/ Van Hattum 282. The topographic bible of 17th century Zeeland, with splendid plans and (panoramic) views.
- Bookplate and owner's stamp of J.P. and W.S. Duvekot on upper pastedown and first free endpaper; occas. sl. stained. Upper joint starting at top of spine; upper corner frontcover and top of spine strengthened w. vellum; binding worn.
= Haitsma Mulier/ Van der Lem 455c. Finely bound PRESENTATION COPY: Spoelder 3: "Het Goesse type 3 komt voor het eerst voor in 1777 op de in gemarmerd leer gebonden presentatie-banden die, blijkens de meegebonden en voorbedrukte opdracht, de 39 genodigden bij de viering van het tweede eeuwfeest (...)"; cf. Storm van Leeuwen, Dutch Decorated Bookbinding in the Eighteenth Century, IIb., p.706 and 707 (illustration C): "It was not made for prize bindings but for the presentation binding of the aforementioned Historie van de Satisfactie of 1777, to be used immediately afterwards for prizes from the Latin school. (...) The coat of arms was used well into the nineteenth century."