ASHER Rare Books & Antiquariaat FORUM
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Asher Rare Books & Antiquariaat Forum
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Highlights from the Autumn Catalogue 2014,
with a supplement of books on the Dutch in Japan & a selected bibliography
35
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published on the occasion of the
amsterdam antiquarian book, map & print fair
friday 3 october 2014 - 14.00-19.00
saturday 4 october 2014 - 10.00-18.00
Passenger Terminal Amsterdam
Piet Heinkade 27, 1019 br Amsterdam
Jointly offered for sale by:
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The Netherlands
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The Netherlands
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Rare and attractive atlas of the Low Countries, with the first Leo Belgicus map in its second state
1. AITZING, Michael von. Belgici Leonis chorographia das ist ein newe landt beschreibung des Belgischen
Lewen, in XVII Provincien des gantzen Niderlandts außgetheylet.
(Colophon: Cologne, Franz Hogenberg), 1587. Small 20 (28.5 x 19.5 cm). With engraved title-page, large folding
engraved Leo Belgicus map (39 x 46 cm), 8 double-page engraved portraits and 17 numbered double-page engraved
maps. Contemporary limp sheepskin parchment.
€ 26.500
Rare first edition, in German, of a small atlas devoted primarily to the Low Countries, with a splendid folding map
representing the Low Countries in the form of a lion: the first “Leo Belgicus” map in its second state. In both the
present second state and the first state of 1583, the “Leo Belgicus” map gives a numbered list of what the present titlepage calls the seventeen provinces of the Low Countries, still a fluid concept at this time. Aitzing’s map and atlas may
have established the idea of the seventeen provinces.
In very good condition, with 2 small tears in the folding map, slightly affecting the border but not approaching the
map image, and some marginal water stains in the last few leaves. Binding somewhat worn. A rare and attractive atlas
of the Low Countries.
Koeman, II, p. 103 note; VD 16, E 4777 (3 copies, at least 1 lacking folding map); WorldCat & KVK (3 copies, at least 1 lacking folding map); for the lion
map: V.d. Heijden, Leo Belgicus 1.2 (1 copy in the present atlas).
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With 12 coats of arms in colours, gold and silver, including the Count Palatine Friedrich Kasimir of
Zweibrücken and Countess Amelia, Princess of Orange and Countess of Nassau
2. [ALBUM AMICORUM]. Album amicorum.
Strasbourg, Basel, 1625-1627. Small 80 (9 x 15 cm). Manuscript album amicorum on paper, with entries and mottos in
Latin, French and German. With 25 manuscript entries in ink interspersed through the album, including 12 with coats
of arms finely drawn and brightly coloured with gouaches, gold and silver. Contemporary orange velvet, gilt and richly
gauffered edges.
€ 7.500
Album Amicorum of an young nobleman from the
Palatinate, probably from the Strasbourg court of
Friedrich Kasimir (1585-1645), Count Palatine of
Zweibrücken, and his Countess Amelia (1581-1657),
youngest daughter of the Dutch Prince of Orange
William the Silent and his third wife, so she also bore
the titles Princess of Orange and Countess of Nassau.
They had married at Heidelberg in 1616. The Thirty
Years’ War forced the Protestant Count and Countess
to leave their castle Landsberg in Alsace in 1621, so
their court was in Strasbourg when the album was
made. Their only surviving son, Friedrich Ludwig (16191681), was only five to seven years old when the entries
were written, so the album likely belonged to a young
nobleman at their court who studied at Strasbourg
University. He would probably have been born in the
first decade of the century. He also visited Basel. The
first entries in the album, on a single page separated
from the others by several blanks, are by the Count and
Countess themselves, each includes the coat of arms,
beautifully drawn the date 1625, and a motto. These
probably predate the further entries, the dated ones
ranging from September 1625 and May 1627, mostly from
Strasbourg and probably by his fellow students. A few in
October 1626 are dated from Basel.
In very good condition, with only occasional minor
foxing. The binding is rather worn, so that only patches
of the velvet pile remain and the woven fabric itself is
worn through in a few places along the edges.
Rare pocket-atlas of the “Batavian Republic”, with 9 hand-coloured maps
3. [ATLAS - NETHERLANDS]. Nieuwe zak-atlas der Bataafsche Republiek, volgends derzelver tegenwoordige
verdeling in departementen en ringen.
Leiden, David du Mortier and Son, 1800. Narrow 80 (16 x 6.5 cm). With 9 hand-coloured folding engraved maps
(ca. 16 x 20 cm). Contemporary red half sheepskin, sprinkled sides.
€ 2.500
First and only edition of a rare pocket-atlas of the Batavian Republic, the successor of the Republic of the United
Netherlands, founded in 1795 with the armed support of the French Republic and lasting only until 1806. The atlas
contains 9 folding maps: a general map of the Batavian Republic (dated 1799), and 8 maps of the “departments” Eems,
Ouden IJssel, Rhine, Amstel, Texel, Delft, Dommel, and Schelde and Meuse. The maps are reduced versions of the maps
published in Mortier’s Nieuwe zak- en reisatlas der Bataafsche Republiek (1799).
Binding shows some light wear. In very good condition.
V.d. Heijden, De kaart van Nederland in de Franse tijd 19 (4 copies); Koeman, III, Mor, du 1; STCN (2 copies); for the earlier maps: Egmond, Covens &
Mortier 81-90.
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no. 3
no. 4
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Rare print series by celebrated marine painter Ludolf Bakhuizen
4. BAKH UIZEN, Ludolf. d’Y Stroom, en zeegezichten.
Amsterdam, “1701” [= ca. 1751]. Foolscap oblong 10 (33 x 42 cm). Engraved calligraphic title-page (16.5 x 23.8 cm),
mezzotint portrait of Bakhuizen (18.5 x 14.4 cm), probably by Jacob Gole, with a 4-line Latin verse by Joan van
Broekhuizen printed from a separate plate, and 10 etched plates, the first with a 6-line Dutch verse by Bakhuizen
printed from a separate plate. The first plate measures 19.7 x 25.9 cm, the others ca. 17.5 x 23.5 cm. Loose sheets inserted
in modern portfolio. Untrimmed, leaving all deckles intact.
€ 19.500
Very rare third state of a remarkable maritime
print series by Ludolf Bakhuizen (or Backhuysen,
1630-1708), one of the leading marine painters of
the Dutch Golden Age. After the calligraphic
title and the portrait of Bakhuizen follow
an impressive personification of the city of
Amsterdam, showing the Maid of Amsterdam
riding in Neptune’s triumphal chariot, with in the
background the 64-gun man-of-war Amsterdam
(built in 1688) and the shipyard and depot of the
Dutch East India Company, and below, a 6-line
verse celebrating the Dutch overseas trade. The
other plates show coastal, harbour, river and sea
views, including the IJ (Amsterdam), the Maas
(Rotterdam) and a family picnicking on the shore
of a river, with a wide variety of ships and boats,
from large men-of-war to small rowboats, on
calm seas and in violent storms.
Bakhuizen was already a celebrated marine
painter when, at age 71, he turned his hand to
etching, producing the present evocative plates, the only prints he ever produced.
Slightly foxed, a few light insignificant water stains, otherwise in very good condition. An important series of
maritime views, of high artistic quality, here unbound and wholly untrimmed.
De Groot & Vorstman, Zeilschepen 110-115; Hollstein (Dutch & Flemish), pp. 54-57, 1-10; STCN (1 copy); WorldCat (3 copies); Wurzbach I, pp. 42-43; for
the paper: Gaudriault, p. 262.
Four fine engraved series of models of architectural ornamentation
5. BARBET, Jean. Livre d’architecture d’autels, et de cheminees.
“Paris”, sold by Cornelis Danckerts in Amsterdam, 1641. Series of 20 numbered engravings, including the title-print, Barbet’s
dedication to Cardinal Richelieu, a note to the reader and 17 finely designed and engraved altars and chimney pieces.
With: (2) MI TELLI, Agostino. [Model cartouches.] All[e]r[!] Ill[ustrissi]mo. Sig[no]r: Fran[ces]co: Maria
Zambeccari.
[Paris?], Rousel, “1636” [=ca. 1641/42?]. Series of 16 numbered engravings, including the title-print (with no title) and 15
large ornamental, cartouches, many with grotesque masks.
(3) RABEL, Daniel. Cartouches de diferentes inventions, tres utilles a plussieurs sortes de personnes.
Paris, Francois l’Anglois dit Ch(i)artres, [ca. 1645?]. 2 series of engravings, each with an engraved title-print with an
elaborately decorated cartouche plus 12 numbered cartouches with scenes. Plate 1 in each series is signed by [Daniel]
Rabel (ca. 1578-1637) in Paris as artist and engraver. The title-prints name the publisher Ch(i)artres. 4 works in volume.
20 (32 x 20 cm). Contemporary vellum.
€ 6.500
Four series of models for architectural ornament, bound together in contemporary vellum.
Ad 1: First printing from the Danckerts plates of a series of ornamental designs for altars and chimney-pieces, richly
and beautifully executed with decorative carvings, sculpture and paintings in the influential styles popular in France
under Louis XIII. In 1630 Jean Barbet, draughtsman and engraver, signed a two-year contract with the publisher
Melchior Tavernier to make the drawings for the present series. Tavernier published it at Paris in 1633, engraved by
Abraham Bosse. Cornelis Danckerts copied the series in mirror image.
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Ad 2: Paris edition, with imprint “Rousel exc.”, of a
beautiful series of large ornamental cartouches, originally designed by Agostino Mitelli, Italian architect and
engraver. The present Paris edition has 16 plates, all containing cartouches.
Ad 3: Two series of very refined and beautiful cartouches, but instead of blank cartouches as in ad 2, these all
surround beautifully engraved scenes. They are printed
from the plates of the first edition in their second state.
The first series puts more emphasis on people and
their activities within the landscape, and the second
on the often mountainous landscapes themselves.
Some of the cartouches are fantastic and bizarre, with
sometimes grotesque real and imaginary creatures, such
as the elephant heads in plate 1 of the first series, their
trunks curling around to form the lower corners of the
cartouche. Daniel Rabel, French artist and engraver, also
published model series of costumes, birds and insects.
His present cartouches are fine examples of style and
fashion in Louis XIII’s France.
From the library of Lunsingh Scheurleer. In very good
condition, with only an occasional minor smudge or
marginal stain, and with ample margins. The boards are
somewhat bowed and the vellum slightly stained, but
the binding is generally also very good.
Ad 1: BAL 187 note; Fruling, Ornament prints 9099-9100 note; ad 2:
Fuhring 1115-1137 note; ad 3: Berlin Kat. 309; Fruhling 1040-1051 (lacking
title plate) & 1052-1064; Le Blanc III, p. 263, Rabel 3 (one series only).
Dutch edition of Barrow’s Travels in China
6. BARROW, John. Reizen in China, ...
Haarlem, François Bohn, 1807-1809. 3 volumes. 80. With 10 engraved plates (6 folding, 1 double-page), the double-page
plate with 2 portraits hand-coloured, 4 leaves with engraved music, and several woodcut and engraved illustrations in
the text. Original publisher’s boards.
€ 950
First Dutch edition of Barrow’s Travels in China. The
author was George Staunton’s private secretary and part
of Macartney’s mission to China (1792-1794). Barrow’s
narrative “contains a number of descriptions of Chinese
artefacts and novelties as well as some first-hand information not found in Staunton” (Hanotiau). The account
opens with an essay on China’s treatment of foreign
travellers and includes a noteworthy description of
Beijing and the Imperial Palace, as well as observations
on China’s history, manners and customs. Among the
illustrations are 6 fine views and portraits after William
Alexander; other plates show musical instruments and
artillery. Engravings in the text show additional music
and there is a woodcut of a Chinese character.
With an owners’ inscriptions and bookplate . With a
water stain in the first few leaves of vol. 1, but further
in very good condition and wholly untrimmed. The
paper spines are lost or damaged, but the bindings are
otherwise good.
Cordier, Sinica, col. 2390; Saalmink, p. 136; cf. Hanotiau, Western
Travellers 50 (English ed.); not in Tiele.
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Pieter Bast’s celebrated map of Amsterdam in bird’s eye view
7. BAST, Pieter. Amstelodamum urbs Hollandiae primaria, emporium totius Europae celeberrimum.
Amsterdam, Claes Jansz. Visscher, [ca. 1618]. Large engraved map of Amsterdam in the form of a bird’s eye view
(scale: 1:2200), printed on 4 sheets (94 x 82.5 cm as assembled).
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Calligraphic prayerbook by French master writer
in a fine binding.
With the title across the head, the crowned coats of
arms of the province of Holland (upper left) and city of
Amsterdam (upper right), the latter above a scrollwork
cartouche with a Latin dedication by Herman Allard
to the Amsterdam burgomasters. At lower right a key
to 150 numbered buildings, bridges, streets, canals etc.
At the foot, right of the centre, a 32-point compass and
a cartouche, surmounted by Neptune, with a 12-line
Latin text above a scale of 50 Roman passus and Bast’s
signature (“Petrus Bastius fecit”). The foreground with
dozens of ships of all sizes and classes, many under sail.
Mounted on linen.
€ 46.500
8. BERNY DE NOGENT, Pierre-Jean-Paul.
Exercice du chretien a l’usage de Rome avec des
reflexions des sonnets chretiens et des sentences de
l’ecriture sainte. Dedié à Madame Chalut de Vérin.
France [Paris?], 1753. Small 80 (15 x 9.5 cm). With the
title-page set in a decorative black painted border
containing the crowned arms of Chalut de Vérin (?),
all other leaves set in decorative woodcut borders in
pink and green. Early 19th-century gold-tooled black
morocco, richly gold-tooled covers with pointillé
tooling, gold-tooled spine, gilt edges. Preserved in black
morocco pull-of case (Riviere & Son).
€ 4.500
One of the most renowned and influential plans of
Amsterdam, first published in 1597 and here with all
four sheets in their final states, updating Cornelis
Anthonisz’s woodcut view of 1544. It “functioned
as the standard groundplan of Amsterdam for the
critical period to 1625, the year of Balthasar Florisz van
Berkenrode’s celebrated groundplan. During these three
decades prior to 1625 Amsterdam evolved from a provincial emporium to a world capital. It became the most
significant mercantile and banking centre of northwest
Europe and the wealth it generated was immense. …
Bast recorded the appearance of Amsterdam at a singularly momentous point in its history. … Bast’s print is no
mere representation; it is a portrait” (Keyes, p. 6).
The first edition of 1597 was followed by Herman
Allard’s edition of 1599, which entailed several considerable alterations, including the addition of the title and
Allard’s dedication to the burgomasters. After Pieter
Bast’s death in 1605, Claes Jansz. Visscher probably
acquired the copperplates of the plan, producing a
new edition ca. 1606 in which the medieval walls were
replaced by a “gracht” (large canal) encircling the city on
the landward side. The present edition includes several
additions, the two most important being Hendrick de
Keyser’s famous stock exchange, finished in 1611, and
the key to 150 numbered buildings, streets, bridges,
canals, etc. Under number 100 it lists “d. niewe waegh”
(the new weigh house). The “waag” or weigh house was
moved into what had been one of the city gates, the Sint
Anthonispoort (Saint Anthony’s Gate), in 1617-1618. So
the present edition of the plan was probably printed in
or after 1618 but before 1625, the year in which Balthasar
Florisz van Berkenrode published a new plan, superseding Bast’s.
With some old tears repaired, mostly along horizontal
and vertical lines where the map had been folded over
the years before it was mounted, a few spots and light
browning, overall in good condition.
A fine calligraphic manuscript by the French writing
master Pierre-Jean-Paul Berny de Nogent, “ein ausgezeichneter Calligraph, der es in seiner Kunst sehr weit
brachte” (Nagler). Born in Chartres in 1722, he studied
law before entering the military. After taking part in
several campaigns, Berny retired and established himself
as a writing teacher and founded a writing academy in
Brussels. He seems to have acquired his calligraphic
skills while in Paris in the 1750’s, and his earliest works
are lineographic portraits dated 1751. Interestingly, in
the 1770’s he corresponded with Benjamin Franklin and
dedicated a manuscript on governance to him, titled
L’Oeil du Maître, today held in library of the American
Philosophical Society.
The present manuscript, containing prayers and devotional texts, is dedicated to Elisabeth Varanchan Chalut
de Vérin, former chamber maid to the dauphines and
wife of the future farmer general Geoffroy Chalut de
Vérin, who frequently received Benjamin Franklin at his
Paris residence between 1779 and 1783.
1 preliminary leaf missing. Some slight browning. With
two bookplates. In very good condition.
D’Ailly, Plattegronden 96; Bodel Nijenhuis, De Leidse graveur Pieter
Bast, pp. 93-96; Hofman, Hist. plattegronden van Ned. steden, vol. 1
(Amsterdam), pp. 27-28 (with facsimile); Hollstein (Dutch & Flemish)
I, 7; Keyes 7; cf. Burger, “Amsterdam in het einde der zestiende eeuw.
Studie bij de uitgaaf van den grooten plattegrond van 1617”, in: Jaarboek
Amstelodamum XVI, pp. 1-101; not in IKAR.
Mortimer L. Schiff Library (Sotheby’s 1938) 1362; for Berny: Nagler I, p.
457; for other work by Berny: Hutton Collection (Sotheby’s 1972) 9.
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With 154 plates showing the mechanisms of mills,
waterworks, etc.
9. BÖCKLER, Georg Andreas. Theatrum machinarum novum,
exhibens aquarias, alatas, iumentarias, manuarias; pedibus, ac
ponderibus versatiles, plures, et diversas molas.
Cologne, Paul Fürst, 1662. 20. With engraved title-page by V.
Sommer and 154 numbered engraved plates (ca. 25 x 19 cm) by
Balthasar Schwan and Eberhard Kieser. Contemporary mottled,
tanned sheepskin, gold-tooled.
€ 6.950
First Latin edition of Böckler’s remarkable Theatrum machinarum,
translated by Heinrich Schmitz. The large plates show mills, pumps
(some using an Archimedes screw), fountains and other hydraulic
machinery, paper mills, flour- and sawmills, and even a fire engine
made by Johann Hautsch in 1658 and a hand mill for making ink
for copperplate printing. The machines are powered by wind, water,
animals and humans. Some have weights so that they can run on their
own once wound. The paper mill shows one man at the vat holding a
paper mold, another pressing sheets, sheets hanging to dry, reams tied
up for shipment, and in a side panel the water wheel and reams being
transported on a donkey’s back. There is a stamper in the foreground,
and another plate gives a more detailed view of another stamper.
With ca. 1800 letterpress bookplate and library stamps. The ink has browned the paper in a few letterpress leaves, but
otherwise in good condition, with only a few small marginal worm holes and marginal defects. The binding has some
damage but is structurally sound. A well-illustrated work on mills and waterworks by a leading German engineer and
architect.
BLC German (17th cent.) B1599; Honeyman 359 (defective); Horblit Lib. 132; Thorndike VII, p. 618; VD 17, 23:296774F (2 copies).
Rare set of beautiful views of a journey to India, by way of Egypt and Arabia
10. BROUGHTON, Frances and William Alfred DELAMOT TE. Views of the overland journey to India
from original sketches.
London, Charles Chabot, [1847/48]. 12 tinted lithographed plates on unwatermared wove paper (28 x 38), including
a title-page and 11 views. All lithographs printed from a zinc plate by William Alfred Delamotte after drawings by
Frances Broughton. Original publisher’s lithographed wrappers. Kept in modern brown cloth portfolio.
€ 9.800
A very rare set of beautiful views of an overland
journey from England to India, by way of Egypt
and Arabia. Including a view of the entrance to the
natural harbour of Aden, showing its mountains,
two armed Arabs, a building complex, and a
steamer and two smaller ships on the water, a
caravan through the desert, awaited by a group of
Arabs, and the harbour of Suez.
“[I]n the early years of the nineteenth century he
[Delamotte] was one of a group of pioneering
younger British artists that included Constable and
Turner, who sketched landscape in the open in oils”
(ODNB). He was active as the drawing-master at
the Royal Military College.
A few minor spots and slightly browned along the
edges, otherwise in very good condition.
Abbey, Travel 522; WorldCat (3 copies); for Delamotte: Luke
Herrmann, “Delamotte , William (1775-1863)”, in ODNB (online ed.).
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A rare pocket atlas for officers, with 25 maps
11. CLEYNHENS, Bernardus. Accuraat geografisch kaart-boekje of zak-atlas van het keyzerryk en geheel
Duytsland, de Oostenrykse Nederlanden, …
Haarlem, Bernardus Cleynhens, [ca. 1747?]. Small 80 (16 x 10 cm). With 25 double-page engraved maps (2 overview maps),
and an engraved plate with 8 scales, all hand-coloured, partly in outline. Half textured red cloth (ca. 1860?).
€ 5.000
A surprisingly rare pocket atlas illustrating the theatre of the “tegenwoordigen” (present) war, probably meaning the War of the
Austrian Succession (1740-1748) but possibly the Seven Years’ War (1756-1763). The title-page notes that it is suited for officers,
travellers and lovers of geography to carry in a pocket. The text (in Dutch) gives a geographic description only of “Duytsland”
(Germany), including Austria, Bohemia and a few other areas,
whereas the maps also cover the Low Countries, the English
Channel, northwest France and to the east as far as Warsaw,
Krakow and Belgrade. The 23 detail maps were designed so
that they could be assembled with the key map to make a
single wall map, whose cartographic image would measure 53
x 90 cm.
With a contemporary owner’s, bookplate, embossed stamp
and library labels. With the text leaves somewhat browned,
not affecting the maps or the plate with scales, and the first 2
leaves slightly worn, but generally in good condition. A rare
pocket atlas from the War of the Spanish Succession.
Koeman I, Cle 1; STCN (2 copies); WorldCat (2 copies).
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273 coats of arms 1266-1753, including the Governors of the Dutch East Indies 1610-1743
12. [COAT OF ARMS - LOW COUNTRIES]. [Armorial of the Bishopric of Liège and of officials of and
associated with the Low Countries].
[Utrecht or vicinity?, ca. 1740-ca. 1753]. 20 (33 x 21.5 cm). Manuscript armorial with 273 coats of arms (plus 7 with names
and information but with the arms left blank), nearly all coloured and (where appropriate) with gold and silver, the
dated ones ranging from 1266 to 1753. Contemporary blind-tooled sprinkled calf.
€ 7.500
A manuscript armorial with 273 coats of arms, mostly of governmental or ecclesiastical officials, in several chronological series,
nearly all coloured and with gold and silver where appropriate.
Most of the manuscript captions give the dates the people were
instated in the positions noted. It was produced beginning ca. 1740
with some additions to 1753, possibly in Liège but more likely in the
Netherlands (perhaps in or near Utrecht).
Of special interest are the arms of the Governors of the Dutch East
Indies 1610-”1740” [recte 1743?]). These are followed by the arms of the
Teutonic Knights of the Order of Jerusalem, associated with Utrecht,
1266-1753, plus the arms of the Order itself and 2 related ones. The
last and longest series gives the arms of the representatives at the
Congress of Utrecht (1712-1713) which negotiated the transfer of the
Southern Netherlands from the Spanish Habsburgs to the Austrian
Habsburgs. Many of these representatives were not from the Low
Countries.
With bookplate and library stamp. In good condition, with some
early repairs to the corners or backs of a few leaves. The boards are
warped and the hinges cracked, with a few small defects on the back
board, but the tooling remains clear.
Hand-coloured devotional prints series after Maerten de Vos
13. COLLAERT, Adriaen. Vita Iesu Salvatoris, varijs
iconibus ab Adriano Collart expressa.
[Antwerp], Adriaen Collaert, [ca. 1600]. Small 80 (13.5 x 8.5 cm).
With engraved title-page highlighted with gold, and 35 numbered
engraved plates, crudely coloured by a contemporary hand and
highlighted with gold. All illustrations with captions from the
New Testament below. Modern sheepskin parchment.
€ 3.850
Rare first and only edition of a devotional prints series by
Adriaen Collaert illustrating the life of Jesus Christ, all plates
coloured by a contemporary hand and highlighted with gold.
Adriaen Collaert (ca. 1560-1618), a scion of a well-known
family of engravers and print publishers, was active in Antwerp
at the end of the 16th and beginning of the 17th century. He
published a follow-up to the present series with similar illustrations as Passio et resurrectio D.N. Iesu Christi.
With the modern bookplate of John Landwehr on paste-down.
Title-page reinforced, thumbed throughout in the lower right
corner, a few other minor stains, and the leaves cut short, occasionally shaving the plates. With all illustrations highlighted
with gold and somewhat crudely hand-coloured.
New Hollstein, The Collaert Dynasty I, 106-141 (6 copies), cf. 142-165 (followup); Poortman, Bijbel en Prent IIa, p. 24; Wurzbach I, p. 315, no. 10.
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3 Princes of Orange, with much information on the Dutch in Brazil
illustrated with 80 double-page plates beautifully hand-coloured
14. COMMELIN, Isaac. Fredrick Hendrick van Nassauw Prince va[n] Orangien zyn leven en bedryf.
Amsterdam, Jodocus Janssonius, 1651 (colophon: printed by Paulus Matthijsz., 1651). With an engraved title-page, a
full-page engraved portrait of Frederik Hendrik, and 34 double-page (or in 2 cases larger folding) engraved plates. All
beautifully coloured by a contemporary hand and most highlighted with gold.
With: (2) [ORLERS, Jan Jansz., and Isaac COMMELIN]. Wilhelm en Maurits van Nassau, Princen van
Orangien, haer leven en bedrijf, of ‘t begin en voortgang der Nederlandsche oorlogen.
Amsterdam, Johannes Janssonius, 1651. With an engraved title-page, full-page engraved portraits of William and of
Maurits, Maurits’s full-page engraved coat of arms, and 46 double-page (or in 2 cases larger folding) engraved plates,
mostly maps, plans and bird’s-eye views of cities, fortifications and battles. All beautifully coloured by a contemporary hand and most highlighted with gold. 2 complementary works, each with 2 parts in 1 volume. 20 (32 x 21.5 cm).
Uniform contemporary or near contemporary gold- and blind-tooled vellum. Ties lacking.
€ 125.000
First editions of two complementary
works, in matching format, similar layout
and beautifully and extensively illustrated,
devoted to the lives, history and military
careers of the three most important
stadtholders and Princes of Orange to
the time of publication, including a great
deal of information on the Eighty Years’
War and the Dutch conquests, trade and
commerce in the Americas in general and
Brazil in particular. In the present copy
the engraved title-pages, portraits, coat of
arms and illustrations are all beautifully
coloured by a contemporary hand, most
of them highlighted in gold. The three
protagonists are William the Silent of
Nassau (1533-1584), leader of the Dutch
revolt against Spain and spiritual father
of the independent Dutch Republic that
took form soon after his assassination,
and his two sons Maurits (Maurice)
(1567-1625) and Frederick Hendrik (15841647) who succeeded him as Princes of
Orange and Dutch head of State.
Something must have gone wrong with
the printing or colouring of Maurits’s
portrait, for one can see that the portrait
was printed on the leaf, but another print
from the same plate has been pasted
over it as a cancel.With a small tear in
the foot of one map and water stains
at the foot of the leaves in both works,
but otherwise in very good condition.
The bindings have cracks in the joints.
Beautifully coloured copies of two magnificently illustrated works on the Princes
of Orange and Dutch activities in Brazil
and elsewhere.
Ad 1: Alden & Landis 651/53; Borba de Moraes, p.
19; ad 2: Alden & Landis 651/110; Borba de Moraes, pp.
634-635.
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pp. 12-13: no. 14
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A great source for Russian history and foreign relations
15. [COYET T, Balthasar]. Historisch verhael, of beschryving van de voyagie, gedaen onder de suite van den heere
Koenraad van Klenk, extraordinaris ambassadeur ... aan zijne zaarsche majesteyt van Moscovien.
Amsterdam, Jan Claesz ten Hoorn, 1677. 40. With etched frontispiece and 6 etched folding plates by Romeyn de
Hooghe. 19th-century boards.
€ 9.500
First edition of a valuable account detailing a Dutch embassy to Russia (1675-1676). The objective was to gain Russian
participation in the anti-Swedish and anti-French alliance, and Koenraad Klenk, with his expert knowledge of Russian
language and culture, was the ideal choice to lead the embassy. The mission was subsidized with more than 50,000
guilders, an extraordinary amount which was even exceeded during the journey. Although the embassy was well received
and the Russians were showered with gifts, Klenk failed to persuade the Tsar to enter into war with Sweden. The six
impressively evocative plates by Romeyn de Hooghe are typical examples of his rich allegorical imagery.
Final leaves restored, with the missing text supplied in manuscrip, some soling, binding worn. An excellent source for
the history of Russia and its foreign relations during the reign of Tsar Aleksei Mikhailovich.
Adelung II, pp. 359-360; Landwehr, De Hooghe Book Illustrator 46; Muller, Bibl. Neerlando-Russe 200; Tiele, Bibl. 602; Verkruijsse, Romeyn de Hooghe
1677.04.
A Jesuit refutation of Descartes’s vortex theory, presented as a novel of space travel
16. [DANIEL, Gabriel]. Reize door de wereld van Deskartes.
Rotterdam, Barent Bos, 1700. 80. With 16 astronomical woodcuts in the text. Contemporary mottled calf.
€
750
First Dutch edition of Daniel’s philosophical and satirical novel, augmented
with a translation of Pierre-Daniel Huët’s brief history of Cartesianism. Part
of the work was translated by Pieter Rabus, who also prefaced it with a poem.
It was originally published in French as Voiage du monde de Descartes (1690) and
attempts to refute Decartes’s vortex theory of planetary motion, discussed in
his Principles and later superseded by Newton’s theory of gravity. It describes a
voyage past the moon to “the space beyond the universe”. This makes it not only
an interesting example of the strife between science and religion, but also an
entertaining and pioneering work of science fiction.
Some browning and staining. Binding shows some wear; paste-downs not
pasted down; hinges weak. Otherwise in very good condition.
Buisman 437; STCN (5 copies); Thijssen-Schoute, pp. 551-552.
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A set of 12 uniform erotic gouache drawings of couples in luxurious interiors ca. 1815
17. [EROTICA - DRAWINGS]. [Album of
erotic drawings].
[France?, ca. 1815?]. 40 (26 x 21.5 cm). A matching set
of 12 erotic drawings (image area about 20 x 16 cm)
in coloured gouaches. Each is drawn on thick paperboard and mounted on the album leaves. 20th-century
red goatskin morocco.
€ 35.000
A matching set of 12 skilfully executed erotic gouache
drawings in numerous colours, each showing a naked or
(more often) partly undressed young man and woman
engaged in manual, vaginal or oral sex. Each is set in
an interior (in at least most cases domestic), most of
them richly furnished. Though the drawings depict
several different men and women, some of them seem
to appear in more than one drawing. One drawing
appears to show a home library, another includes a case
full of books and two others have an open book lying on
the floor. Another has the woman sitting on the man’s
lap before a writing desk with a quill pen in her hand.
These may be intended to suggest that the man is the
young lady’s tutor and they got distracted from their
lessons. The clothing suggests couples from fairly high
social standing. The clothing, architectural decoration,
furniture, clocks, lamps, vases, etc., much of it in Empire
Style, suggest a date around 1815, perhaps in France.
The drawings are in good condition and the binding fine.
Scarce work on comets by Galileo’s successor, prompted by the spectacular comet of 1618
18. GLORIOSO, Giovanni Camillo. De cometis dissertatio
astronomico-physica publice habita in gymnasio Patavino anno
domini MDCXIX.
Venice, Giovanni & Variscvo Varisco, 1624. 40. With
numerous woodcut illustrations in the text (mostly diagrams).
Contemporary limp sheepskin parchment.
€ 22.000
Rare treatise on comets by Giovanni Camillo Glorioso (15721643), who succeeded Galileo in the chair of mathematics in
Padua in 1613. As the author explains in his preface, the publication was prompted by the appearance of the spectacular and
unusually bright comet of November 1618, which was still visible
in January 1619. Dedicated to Marino Gethaldo and divided
into 5 “books”, it treats the astronomical theories of Copernicus,
Brahe, Kepler, Galileo and others. “This scarce work is replete
with curious information, and we find in it the mention of a sort
of telescope (or perspicillum), used, it is said, by Pope Leo X at
the beginning of XVIth century ...” (Libri Catalogue).
Some contemporary underscoring. In very good condition and
with generous margins. Binding soiled, wrinkled and with a
tear in the spine. An important treatise of comets, by Galileo’s
successor at the University of Padua.
Catalogue of the ... celebrated library of M. Guglielmo Libri (1861), 3087; De La
Lande, p. 187; Riccardi I, col. 615; not in Houzeau & Lancaster.
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Very rare Dutch edition of “one of the most influential early books on China”
19. GONZ ÁLEZ DE MENDOZ A, Juan. De historie
ofte beschijvinghe van het groote rijck van China.
Amsterdam, Cornelis Claesz [printed by Jacob Cornelisz
Vennecool, Delft], “1595” [= 1596/99]. 80. Modern polished tan
calf, gold-tooled spine.
€ 12.500
Very rare second edition in Dutch (dated in the same year as
the first) of Juan González de Mendoza’s very popular work on
China, “one of the most influential early books on China to be
published in Europe” (Reed & Demattè). It offers a detailed
description of China together with lengthy accounts of several
recent missionary voyages.
“The book’s first section is a survey in three sections that introduces China’s history, antiquities, architecture, populace, religious
beliefs and ceremonies, agriculture, military organization, and
government. … Mendoza’s volume also contains descriptions of
Japan and the Philippines and a chronicle of Spanish missions in
the New World” (Reed & Demattè).
The tight binding means that the inner ends of the lines of text
run deep into the gutter, but the innermost letters can be seen.
With underscoring and annotations in the margins of the first
half of the book and a small hole in H4 with the loss of a couple
of letters. In good condition.
STCN (2 copies); Typ. Batava 2129; WorldCat (4 copies); cf. Cordier, Sinica, col. 16;
Löwendahl 13; Reed & Demattè.
First English edition of a medical treatise on Spanish fly
20. GROENVELT, Joannes. A treatise of the safe, internal
use of cantharides in the practice of physick.
London, Jeffrey Wale, John Isted, 1706. 80. 19th-century tanned
half sheepskin, tree-marbled paper sides.
€ 4.500
First English edition of a treatise on the medicinal use of
Spanish Fly (Lytta vesicatoria, traditionally classified in the
family Canthardiae). Joannes Groenevelt (1648-1715/16)) was
a Dutch-born physician, practising in London from 1675
on. Greenfield strongly advocated the use of Spanish fly,
primarily for the treatment of gout and bladder and kidney
diseases. One of his patients accused him of malpractice
and Groenvelt was fined and sent to Newgate prison, but
obtained permanent freedom through William III’s general
pardon in 1691. He published the present treatise on the use
of Spanish fly as a vindication of his methods. It includes a
laudatory poem by Bernard Mandeville, detailed descriptions
of the various medicinal uses of Spanish fly, followed by
medical observations and several recipes.
In good condition, water stain in lower margin, some
browning. Boards slightly browned.
Blake, p. 187; ESTC T64914; for the author: Cook, “Groenevelt, Joannes (bap.
1648, d. 1715/16)”, in: ODNB (online ed.).
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First edition of a devotional emblem book with an engraved title-page drawn by Rubens,
splendidly bound for the Abbot of Kremsmünster Abbey
21. HAEF TEN, Benedictus van. Regia via crucis.
Antwerp, Balthasar Moretus (Officina Plantiniana),
1635. 80 (18 x 11.5 x 4 cm). With engraved title-page
showing Christ, Saint Teresa of Avila and 2 unidentified men and 38 full-page emblematic engravings.
Richly gold-tooled calf (ca. 1665), each board with the
arms of (apparently) Abbot Placidus Buechauer (16111669) of Kremsmünster, gilt and elaborately gauffered
edges.
€ 6.500
First edition (first issue), the only edition in the original Latin, of a lovely devotional emblem book with an engraved
title-page and 38 engraved emblems, all on the theme of the holy cross, all engraved by Cornelis Galle the elder (15761650), at least the title-page after a drawing by Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1648).
The history of the present copy is unusually interesting and well documented. The first documented owner was Jakob
Adalbert Schrenk(1634-1674) best known as a composer of church music. The 1650 inscription on the title-page shows
that when he was 15 or 16 he gave it to Gotthard Freyd, then also at Kremsmünster. The book found its way to the
Abbot at Kremsmünster, Placidus Buechauer (1611-1669), who had it splendidly bound before his 1669 death.
With water stains at the head of one quire and the half-title speckled with ink(?), but generally in very good
condition. The binding shows a few small wormholes, minor cracks or small abrasions and lacks the ties, but is still
very good, with the tooling well preserved.
Funck p. 328; Landwehr, Emblem Books Low Countries 271; Praz, p. 361; STCV 6843143.
18th-century manuscript map of part of the Lek River
22. HAT TUM, Dirk van. Kaarte en aftekening van het rivier vak beneeden het Tienhovense Veer met de
aanleggende krib, en rijswerken.
[Netherlands], August 1792. Manuscript map in pen, ink and colour washes on paper (52.5 x 73.5 cm), with a compass
rose (north below right), the names of the regions, and a scale (100 Stichtse roeden = 184 mm, giving a scale of about
1:2000) below left.
€ 1.950
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Large manuscript map of part of
the Lek River, near the village of
Tienhoven. The map was surveyed
and drawn by Dirk van Hattum, the
official surveyor of the water board of
the Lekdijk Benedendams. In his map
Van Hattum suggests the construction
of a hydraulic works to improve the
navigability of part of the river and
simultaneously protect an elementary
river groyne downstream. Besides the
extent, nature and ownership of the
lands, including the remains of former
floodgates, much attention is given to
the location, structure and improvement of the levee.
With some small tears along old folds
and along the edges, and some minor
soiling, but still generally in good
condition.
An ill-fated gold mining expedition to Sumatra
23. HESSE, Elias. Ost-Indische Reise-Beschreibung, oder Diarium, was bey der Reise des ... Bergk-Comissarii, D.
Benjamin Olitschens, im Jahr 1680. von Dressden aus, bis in Asiam auf Sumatras, denckwürdiges vorgegangen.
Dresden, Michael Günther (printed at Pirna, “mit Stemelischen Schriften” that is, by Johann Heinrich Stremel), 1687.
(2) KRECKWITZ, Georg. Totius Principatus Transylvaniae Accurata Descriptio. Das ist: Ausführliche
Beschreibung des gantzen Fürstenthumbs Siebenbürgen.
Nuremberg and Frankfurt, Leonhard Loschge, 1688. With double-page engraved frontispiece by Daucher, folding map
(ca. 20 x 27 cm), 8 portraits, and 8 views. 2 works in 1 volume. 120. Contemporary vellum.
€ 3.500
The first edition of a rare travel account,
dealing mainly with Sumatra and the
mining operations of the VOC (Dutch East
India Company) there. Elias Hesse accompanied the engineer Benjamin Olitzsch on
his ill-fated expedition to the goldmines
of Sillida (Sumatra). Rich in detail, it is an
important record of a tragic gold mining
expedition that resulted in a substantial
financial setback for the VOC. Included
are descriptions of Java, Batavia, and the
Malabar Coast (India).
It is bound with a comprehensive account
of Transylvania, known in German as
“Siebenbürgen”. The work includes views
of Brasov (Kronstadt), Cluj-Napoca
(Klaussenburg), Bistrita (Bistritz), Sibiu
(Hermannstadt), Sighisoara (Schäßburg),
Sebes (Mühlbach), Oradea (Großwardein),
and Medias (Medwisch), and 8 portraits of
important Transylvanian rulers.
Some stamps on flyleaf. Browned throughout and ad 2 lacking “Bericht an den Buchbinder” (R8), but otherwise in
good condition, the map reinforced. Hesse’s narrative of a gold mining expedition to Sumatra.
Ad 1: V. Gelder, Oost-Indisch avontuur, p. 177; Landwehr & V.d. Krogt, VOC 316; VD 17, 39:131486T (3 copies); ad 2: Apponyi 1354; RMK III/2, 3505; VD
17, 3:300791T (7 copies).
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Prayerbook by and for Christoffel van Holsit-Oest, father of a future Burgomaster of Maastricht,
with a manuscript copy of a lost printed prayerbook
24. [HOLSIT-OEST, Christoffel van]. [Prayerbook with calendar of feast days and almanac].
[Maastricht, 1542?]. Manuscript in Dutch, with 2 attractive decorated circular figures for determining the Sunday letter
and golden number, 7 large decorated initials and hundreds of smaller initials, the whole executed in several colours.
With: (2) [PRAYERBOOK - DU TCH]. [Prayerbook].
[Antwerp?, 1589 or soon after].
Manuscript in Dutch, with a skull, crossed bones and sarcophagus drawn in black, red and yellow; numerous 3-, 2- and
1-line uncial initials in red; numerous headings, opening and closing words in red. 2 manuscripts in 1 volume (12 x 8.5
cm). 17th-century vellum.
€ 14.500
Ad 1: A manuscript prayerbook on vellum, with an
18-page calendar of feast days, an astrological table
and a double-page perpetual almanac. It appears to
be a very personal document made by Christoffel
van Holsit-Oest for his own use, for in the calendar
he records a birth and three deaths in his family that
appear to be an integral part of the manuscript. The
year of birth for the future burgomaster Winand van
Holsit-Oest and years of death for his grandparents
were previously unknown, but the exact match with
the date of death of his aunt Joanna, 16 January 1542,
makes the identification almost certain, since Johan
IV van Holsit-Oest is not known to have had any
other grandson named Winand. The choice of saints
written in red in the calendar of feast days suggests
that the manuscript was produced in Maastricht,
for they include Saint Servatius, Patron Saint of
Maastricht and Saint Lambert, who was Bischop of
Maastricht (17 September).
Ad2: A manuscript prayerbook on paper, at least partly
copied from a printed prayerbook that is not known to
survive (edited by Simon de Planen and published by the
widow of Guillaem van Parijs, Antwerp, 1589). The USTC
records De Planen only in three editions of one prayerbook:
Dit is een devoter meditacie op die passie ons (liefs) Heeren. The
prominence given to prayers to Saint Bridget and Saint Anne
in the present manuscript may mean that it was intended for
the use of a woman.
With an 18th-century(?) owner’s name, an ink stamp and
a bookplate. Trimmed, slightly shaving the text at the
fore-edge of a couple leaves, but otherwise in good condition.
The sewing is slightly loose and the binding soiled. A ca.
1542 manuscript prayerbook recording the birth of the future
burgomaster of Maastricht, compiled by his father, with a ca.
1589 prayerbook documenting a lost printed edition.
Ad 1: for the Van Oest/Holsit genealogy: www.genealogieonline.nl/stamboomreijnaerdts-speth/120710.php and /120705.php; ad 2: for printed prayerbooks edited
by Simon de Planen: Cat. v.d. bibliotheek der Maatschappij van Nederlandsche
Letterkunde (1847), I, p. 185 (= USTC 441877?); USTC 401093, 408751, 411096.
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The rights and duties of women in sex, love and marriage
25. KORNMANN, Heinrich. Sibylla trig-Andriana, seu virginitate, virginum statu et jure tractatus novus et
jucundus …
Including:
-De Annulo triplici: usitato, sponsalitio, signatorio: ...
-Linea amoris sive commentarius in versiculum glossae, ...
The Hague, Adriaan Vlacq, 1654.
With: (2) BOETHIUS. De consolatione philosophiae, libri v. ex
vetustissimis libris a Th. Pulmannus.
Leiden, Officina Plantiniana, Franciscus Raphelengius, 1590. With
Plantin’s woodcut compasses device on title-page. 2 editions in 1
volume (the first in 3 parts). 120. 17th-century overlapping sheepskin
parchment.
€ 1.500
Rare first complete Netherlands edition of three curious Latin
works on women, love and marriage, by Heinrich Kornmann. The
first treats the rights and duties of women and their conduct in
matters of sex, the second is about the commonplace of the five
stages of love (sight, conversation, physical contact, kissing and
consummation) and the third is devoted to rings, including engagement rings. Kornmann refers to a wide variety of sources, including
classical authors and church fathers. He defends women’s rights to
some degree, but also repeats superstitious beliefs such as that a tree
is injured by a virgin’s plucking its first fruit. He further discusses
incubi and succubi, astrology and the colour of women’s cloths (preferably blue, pink, green and white).
It is bound with Theodoor Pulman’s edition of Boethius’s classic
Consolation of philosophy, published by the famous Officina
Plantiniana.
With an early owner’s inscription and two stamps, Endpapers with extensive manuscript annotation. The Boethius
with some browning, otherwise in very good condition. Binding rubbed and slightly soiled.
Ad 1: Bibl. Med. Neerl. p. 72; Caillet 5829; Gay-Lemmonyer III, cols. 1113-1114; STCN (5 copies); ad 2: Adams B2295; BMC STC Dutch p. 37.
no. 26
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91 hand-coloured engraved botanical plates:
the first book with engravings after Pierre-Joseph Redouté
26. L’HÉRITIER , Charles-Louis. Stirpes novae, aut minus cognitae, quas descriptionibus et iconibus illustravit …
Paris, Philip-Dionysius Pieres, “1784”-”1785” [= 1785-1791]. 6 parts in 1 volume. 10 (51 x 35.5 cm). With a general titlepage, 6 part-titles and 91 engraved plates (2 double-page). All in contemporary or near-contemporary hand-colouring,
protected by tissue guards. 19th-century green half sheepskin, red edges.
€ 48.500
First and only edition of a
sumptuous botanical work and
Redouté’s first publication: of the
91 hand-coloured plates 54 are after
drawings by the young Redouté,
then not yet 25 years old. “The book
is splendid in its spacious descriptions, its charming exotic plates, its
implications for taxonomic history;
and fascinating as an imposing
piece of eighteenth-century bookmaking ...” (Hunt). In Stirpes novae
(New herbs), Charles L’Héritier
de Brutelle (1746-1800) describes
a great number of new taxa, many
of which grew in his own garden,
the gardens of his friends and in
the Jardin du Roi. He had ample
means and engaged the young
botanical artist Pierre-Joseph
Redouté (1759-1840) to draw the
majority of the plates. The two
developed a close friendship and
L’Héritier taught Redouté the basics
of plant taxonomy and dissection.
The friendship proved a determining factor in Redouté’s career and
enabled him to fully develop his
extraordinary talents.
Bookblock in good condition, with
some light spotting. Professionally
restored binding.
De Belder 215; Cat. Redouteana 1; Cleveland 555;
GFB, pp. 64-65; Hunt 673; Johnston 555; Nissen,
BBI 1190; Pritzel 5268; Stafleu & Cowan 4484.
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Life in Queensland, with illustrations reproduced photographically
27. MARCET, Edouard. Australie un voyage a travers le bush.
Geneva, Jules-Guillaume Fick, 1868. 80. With 20 separately printed woodburytype illustrations: photomechanical
reproductions of drawings, 10 full-page, mounted on inserted leaves of heavy paper as plates, and 10 smaller, mounted
on the text leaves. Contemporary polished green gold-tooled calf, marbled endpapers, gilt edges. Rebacked in green
cloth with the original backstrip laid down.
€ 3.750
First edition, in the original
French, of Marcet’s
fictional narrative of life in
Queensland, remarkably
illustrated with mounted
photomechanical reproductions of drawings made
by the fine but short-lived
woodburytype process.
Edouard Marcet was a Swiss
settler in Queensland, who
also published two factual
accounts of life in the colony.
The present work includes
descriptions and illustrations
of dramatic encounters
between settlers and the
aborginal people. It further
describes Queensland’s
natural history, including
the platypus, which is shown
in two illustrations. Several
of the drawings reproduced
are signed by the artists: G.
Liquier, perhaps meaning the French artist Gabriel Liquier (1843-1887), later known for his caricatures, and the Swiss
landscape artist Etienne Duval (1824-1914). A Swedish translation, adapted for children, was published in 1870.
In very good condition, with only some spotting. Binding expertly rebacked and with some scratches and discolouration, but otherwise also very good. A fascinating fictional account of life in Queensland, illustrated by drawings reproduced by the remarkable woodburytype process.
Bibl. of Australian lit. III, p. 305; Boom & Rooseboom (eds.), A new art: photography in the 19th century, B265; Ferguson 12251.
Collected works of a famous architect, with 271 double-page engraved plates
28. MAROLOIS, Samuel. Mathematicum opus absolutissimum: …
Including:
(1) MAROLOIS, Samuel. Geometria theoretica ac practica: …
Amsterdam, Janssonius, 1633. With 47 double-page engraved plates, numbered 1-42 and 1-5.
(2) MAROLOIS, Samuel. Artis muniendi, sive fortificationis, pars prima: …
Amsterdam, Janssonius, 1644.
(3) MAROLOIS, Samuel. Fortificationis, sive artis muniendi, pars secunda.
Amsterdam, Janssonius,1644. With 40 double-page engraved plates.
(4) VREDEMAN DE VRIES, Joannis. Architectura: …
Amsterdam, Janssonius,1633. With 30 double-page engraved plates by Henricus Hondius after the designs by
Vredeman de Vries, one dated 1601.
(5) MAROLOIS, Samuel. Opticae, sive perspectivae, pars prima: …
Amsterdam, Janssonius 1633. With 80 double-page engraved plates, some by Henricus Hondius, incl. 6 views of
buildings in Rome (nos. 54-59) in roundels, after the drawings by Petrus Stephanus.
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(6) VREDEMAN DE VRIES, Joannis. Perspectiva theoretica ac practica.
Amsterdam, Janssonius, 1633.
Including:
(7) VREDEMAN DE VRIES, Joannis. Perspectivae pars II: …
Amsterdam, Janssonius, 1632. With 49, 24 (+ 1) numbered double-page engraved plates depicting geometrical and
mathematical figures on perspective.
Amsterdam, Johannes Janssonius, 1638 [altered in manuscript to 1658]. 7 parts in 2 volumes. 20. The general title printed
letterpress on a slip of paper pasted over the 1638 engraved title-page of the French edition, 7 letterpress part-titles,
with all together 271 double-page engraved plates, partly by Henricus Hondius. Contemporary blind-tooled calf, new
endpapers.
€ 15.000
Complete works of Samuel Marolois (1572-1627), including the works of his predecessor Jan Vredeman de Vries (1527-ca.
1606/08) that were edited with numerous additions by Marolois. Marolois was a French mathematician, who published
in the Low Countries and taught Henricus Hondius. Here all the works are edited, corrected and revised by Albert
Girard, who also revised the
mathematical works of Simon
Stevin. Marolois’s Geometria
presents a thorough pictorial
course of all aspects of
geometry and its application
to measurement, proportion,
surveying, perspective, etc. His
Fortificationis, first published
at The Hague in 1615, represents the most outstanding
text book, richly illustrated,
on the Dutch art of fortification at the beginning of
the 17th century. Vredeman
de Vries’s Architectura, originally the third volume
of his Perspectiva, gives a
pictorial course in the basic
rules of architectural design,
with plates by De Vries and
his most gifted pupil and
successor, Hendrik Hondius
(1573-1650). The text consists
mainly of the explanations of
the plates.
In good condition, with the
lower outside corner of the
first part of the second volume
frayed, without affecting the
text; some minor water stains
and foxing. Bindings worn but
skillfully repaired. Rare early
editions of Marolois’s works,
issued with a general titlepage and in a contemporary
binding.
STCN (4 copies); WorldCat (4
copies); ad 1: cf. Bierens de Haan 3027;
ad 2: Bierens de Haan 3026; Jähns, p.
1094; Cockle 821; ad 3: cf. Fowler 191;
Bierens de Haan 3024; ad 4: Fowler
434; ad 5: Bierens de Haan 3031; ad 6
& 7: Vagnetti EIIIb3; cf. Fowler 432.
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The extremely rare complete set of 1008 mostly ornithological coloured plates
29. MARTINET, François Nicolas and Edme Louis DAUBENTON. [Planches enluminées].
[Paris, Panckoucke, ca. 1780-ca. 1783 (engraved ca. 1765-ca. 1783)]. 10 volumes. Imperial 40 (33.5 x 25 cm). With 1008
numbered, finely hand-coloured engraved plates (973 showing birds) drawn and engraved by François Nicolas
Martinet, including 2 plates (showing coral) printed in red. The non-ornithological plates depict butterflies and moths
(22), beetles (6), corals (4), stick insects (1) and reptiles & amphibians (3). All are beautifully coloured as published.
Contemporary red roan (sheepskin).
€ 110.000
Complete set of the rare and splendid, mostly ornithological coloured plates by François Nicolas Martinet,
originally issued in Daubenton’s Planches enluminées,
published by Panckoucke in 48 parts containing 24
plates each from ca. 1765 to ca. 1783. Although produced
at George Buffon’s instigation with the idea that they
could illustrate some copies of his Histoire naturelle des
oiseaux, 1770-1786, the separate publication of the plates
began before the first parts of Buffon’s text appeared.
Since not enough sets of the coloured plates were
produced to accompany all copies of Buffon, a different
set of 262 black and white plates was also produced for
it. Even copies that include the present coloured plates
often omit the 35 non-ornithological plates, so complete
sets of the 1008 plates are rare.
Each volume with bookplate and library stamp on the
first plate and the back of the last plate in each volume.
In very good condition (most plates fine), with a small
tear running into the background image in plates 1 &
2 and spots, minor foxing, very slight browning or pin
holes in a half dozen plates. Only slightly trimmed.
Binding slightly rubbed and with minor scuffs or cracks,
but still good. A rare complete set of the 1008 coloured
plates made to accompany Buffon’s birds, including the
35 non-ornithological plates.
Anker 76; Fine bird books, p. 69; Nissen, IVB 158; Ronsil, p. 76; Zimmer,
pp. 104-105.
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Splendidly bound history of France written by the king’s historiographer
30. MEZERAY, Francois Eudes de. Abregé chronologique de l’histoire de France. ... Divisé en six tomes.
Amsterdam, Abraham Wolfgang, 1673-1674. With engraved frontispiece-title in the style of Romeyn de Hooghe and
full-page engraved portrait of Louis XIV by A. Zylevelt in volume 1, 61 engraved portraits of French rulers in text.
With: (2) MEZERAY, Francois Eudes de. Histoire de France avant Clovis.
Amsterdam, Abraham Wolfgang, 1688. 120. With engraved frontispiece-title in the style of Romeyn de Hooghe.
2 works in 7 volumes. 12mo. Uniform polished, crushed, gold-tooled red morocco by the leading Brussels bookbinder
charles de samblanx (1855-1943).
€ 2.750
Splendidly bound set of this chronological history of
France written by the French historian François Eudes
de Mézeray (1610-1683), first published in 1667-1668.
The history begins with the reign of Faramond and ends
with that of Henry IV. The supplement treats France’s
origin and history before the reign of Clovis. The Abrégé
went through at least 15 editions between 1668 and 1717.
‘’Édition la plus recherchée de l’Abrégé de Mezeray’’
(Willems).
With slight browning to a leaf or two in some volumes,
but generally in fine condition. Bindings fine. A classic
history of France.
Willems 1876 (ad 1 & 2); Verkruijsse, Romeyn de Hooghe 1688.04 (ad 2).
First English edition of a classic on the 16th-century French military
31. MONLUC, Blaise, Seigneur de. The commentaries of Messire Blaize de Montluc, Mareschal of France.
London, Andrew Clark for Henry Brome, 1674. 20. With engraved frontispiece full-length portrait of the author.
Contemporary blind-tooled mottled calf. Expertly rebacked in similar blind-tooled calf.
€ 1.500
First English edition of Blaise de Monluc’s own detailed account of his career, beginning as a foot-soldier and finally
becoming Marshal of France, providing a military history of France from 1521 to 1576. He also provides “divers instructions” for anyone wishing to bear arms with “any eminent degree of honor” and “prudently” fight in wars. It therefore
also serves as a practical handbook of military techniques and tactics. The present translation is by Charles Cotton
(1630-1697), an English poet who dedicated the work to Philip, Earl of Chesterfield and Lord Stanhope, and also
contributed one of the preliminary verses. Blaise de Monluc
(1501-1577) began his career as
an archer and foot soldier in the
reign of King Francois I (14941547), who played a major role in
bringing Renaissance culture and
technical knowledge to France,
inaugurating its golden age.
With two engraved bookplates.
With a couple small abrasions on
the frontispiece, but otherwise in
very good condition, with only
some minor defects. The binding
has been rebacked and the
boards show some restorations. A
colourful and insightful account
of military actions, tactics and
techniques in Renaissance France.
ESTC R37642; Wing M2506; cf. Sloos,
Warfare and the age of printing 03051.
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Montaigne’s essay in a renowned Dutch translation
by Jan Hendrik Glazemaker
32. MONTAIGNE, Michel de. Alle de werken van de heer
Michel de Montaigne … bestaande in zijn proeven.
Amsterdam, Herman van den Berg, 1692 (colophon: printed by
Hendrik Harmenszoon, 1672). 40. With an etched frontispiece by
Laurens Scherm. Contemporary vellum with new endpapers. € 4.500
An acclaimed Dutch translation by Jan Hendrik Glazemaker of
Michel de Montaigne’s deservedly famous essays. One of the essays
is devoted to the “cannibals” of the New World and presents a highly
idealized characterization of the Native Americans, governed by the
laws of nature and still unspoiled by the vices of modern civilization,
surpassing “all the pictures with which the poets have adorned the
golden age, and all their inventions in feigning a happy state of man”.
The translation does not lack Montaigne’s longest and most influential essay, on the 15th-century Catalan scholar Raymond of Sabunde,
which expresses his extreme and perplexing scepticism, summed up in
his motto “What do I know?”.
In very good condition, with modern annotations in pencil, some browning, slip with manuscript note on endpaper,
joint of the front board cracked, but the binding still good. Montaigne’s essays in a rare Dutch edition.
Muller, Pop. proza 115; WorldCat (2 copies); for the frontispiece: Hollstein (Dutch & Flemish) XXIV, p. 193, 69.
Extremely rare practical guide for future boatswains, with large folding plate engraved ca. 1700
33. [MOOLEN, Symon van de]. De
volmaakte bootsman, vervattende hoe men uit
een gegeven scheeps lengte de voornaamste
scheeps deelen zal vinden, de bemasting, het
kerven van ‘t staande en lopende touwerk, en
verder het geene in ‘t toetakelen der scheepen
van nooden is ...
Amsterdam, widow of Gerard Hulst van
Keulen, [1818]. 80. With large folding plate
(43 x 52.5 cm). Later red half cloth, later
endpapers. € 2.250
Extremely rare fourth(?) edition of De
volmaakte bootsman (“The complete
boatswain”), with the folding plate printed
from the original copperplate probably
engraved for the lost first edition ca. 1700.
It is a practical guide for future boatswains
by Symon van de Moolen (1658-1741), who
published several works on astronomy and especially eclipses and
astronomical instruments from 1698 to 1705
and taught mathematics and navigation in Amsterdam. It covers the names, location and measurements of all main
parts of a ship, the masts, the rigging, etc. (with numbers referring to the large engraved folding plate) and includes
nine “charters” for various kinds and sizes of ship in the Dutch navy: tables giving the materials needed to build the
ship, with their dimensions, including materials for the rigging and masts. The book ends with an appendix describing
77 numbered European, Jerusalem crusaders’, Maltese and Turkish maritime flags. All editions are extremely rare.
With the 20th-century bookplate of G.C.E. Crone. Title-page detached and reattached, 1 leaf with a corner torn off,
some minor restorations to the folds of the plate, the title-page and the introduction. Good copy of an extremely rare
work.
NCC (1 copy); Saakes 6 (1818), p. 395; WorldCat (2 copies, incl. that noted in NCC); not in Crone Library.
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28 subtly coloured views of Prague plus a folding map and folding panorama
34. MORSTADT, Vinzenz. Ansichten von Prag.
Prague, heirs of Peter Bohmann, [1826-1832]. A complete series of 28 etched and engraved views of Prague (unnumbered), including the title-print, all subtly coloured in watercolour, as published.
With:
(2) [MAP - PRAGUE]. Neuester Grundriss von Prag. Zweite verbesserte Auflage.
Prague, Alois Borrosch, 1830. Folding lithographed(?) map (23.5 x 24 cm).
(3) MORSTADT, Vinzenz. Panorama von Prag, aufgenommen in Gloriet des Gräflich Schönborn’schen Gartens
am Laurenzberg.
Prague, Borosch & André, [1835]. Engraved folding panorama (13 x 71 cm; plate size 16 x 74 cm). Oblong 40 (19.5 x 25 cm).
Contemporary half green sheepskin, spine with gold and blind fillets.
€ 8.500
A lovely book containing a rare complete set of
subtly hand-coloured views of Prague, drawn
from life by Vinzenz Morstadt (1802-1875), a
Bohemian jurist and judge, who was also a very
fine amateur painter. The present views were
published just as Prague was beginning to flourish
again as a cosmopolitan city with many cultural
and historical attractions for tourists. The book
includes all of the city’s leading architectural
and other sights, shown in daily life with people
engaged in various activities in the streets and
on the river. They are naturally coloured and the
clouds delicately rendered.
The series is preceded by a detailed folding map
of the city and followed by a folding panorama
of the city drawn by Morstadt. Nagler indicates
that it was published in the first instalment (1835)
of a series published under the title, Prag im 19.
Jahrhunderte: eine Auswahl der schönsten Ansichten.
So the various elements in the present book were
all published in the years 1826 to 1835.
With contemporary bookplate of André de
Préau in Paris. With very faint browning or
foxing, and the title of the city map shaved, but
otherwise in very good condition. Binding very
good, with only slight wear at the extremities.
An extensive series of beautifully coloured views
of Prague.
Bobins Collection 443; Engelmann, Bibliotheca geographica
(1858), p. 780; WorldCat (1 copy, with only 22 ll.); for the
panorama: Nagler (1840), p. 509.
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Prints series of the naval battles of René Duguay-Trouin and Jean-Bart,
including a double-page map and a print of Rio de Janeiro
35. OZ ANNE, Nicolas-Marie. Recueil des combats de Duguay-Trouïn [= Les campagnes de Duguay-Trouin].
Paris, Yves Marie le Gouaz, [1774]. Engraved print series with XV plates (2 double-page) and 7 leaves with engraved
text on both sides. Lacking a half-title present in some copies.
With: (2) OZ ANNE, Pierre. Recueil des combats de Jean-Bart, chef d’escadre sous Louis XIV, suivis de l’abrégé de sa vie.
Paris, Yves Marie le Gouaz, 1806. With 19 numbered engraved half-page plates by Le Gouaz after Ozanne. 2 works in 1
volume. 20 (41.5 x 29 cm). Contemporary half green sheepskin parchment, marbled sides, yellow edges.
€ 8.500
Ad 1: Rare engraved print series
depicting the naval battles of René
Duguay-Trouin (1673-1736) from the
year he went into the French navy
under Louis XIV in 1692 to the end
of the War of the Spanish Succession
in 1711. It includes the capture of Rio
de Janeiro in 1711, with a double-page
map and a view of the battle. DuguayTrouin had begun as a privateer but
in the navy he fought both privateers
and the Dutch and English navies.
The print series was drawn by Nicolas
Ozanne, engraved by his sister Jeanne
François Ozanne and published by her
husband Yves Marie Le Gouaz. The
maps were engraved by Drouet.
Ad 2: Rare first edition of Yves Marie
Le Gouaz’s finely engraved series
sea-battle prints from the career of the infamous French privateer, Jean-Bart (1650-1702), after drawings by Ozanne.
They include a title-print showing a fishing boat before the entrance to the port at Jean-Bart’s native Dunkerque,
seventeen views of his conquests of Dutch, Spanish and English ships from 1675 to 1696, and a view of his Channel
crossing in a small row boat after escaping from an English prison in 1689.
The first work lacks the engraved half-title. otherwise both works in very good condition, with only some minor
foxing, and a small water stain in 1 letterpress leaf.
Ad 1: Borba de Moraes, p. 273; Bosch 244; Polak 7235; Rodrigues 908; not in Sabin; ad 2: Cohen-De Ricci, col. 778; Polak 7240 & supp. 10707; WorldCat (3
copies).
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With the Shroud of Turin in a two-colour folding woodblock plate:
1st edition of a 16th-century bestseller
36. PALEOT TI, Alfonso. Esplicatione del lenzuolo ove fu involto il Signore, & delle piaghe in esso impresse col
suo pretioso sangue confrontate con la Scrittura profeti e padri. Con la notitia di molte piaghe occulte, & numero de’
chiodi. Et con pie meditationi de’ dolori della B. Verg[i]ne.
Bologna, heirs of Giovanni Rossi, 1598. 40. With an engraved title-page, a full-page engraving and a folding plate (10
x 39 cm) printed in two colours (reddish brown and yellow-ochre) from woodblocks with the heading and key letters
printed letterpress. Contemporary limp sheepskin parchment.
€ 8.500
First edition of an apologetical work by Alfonso Paleotti
(1531-1610), archbishop of Bologna, on the Holy Shroud
of Turin. It quickly turned into a bestseller, for the same
publisher reprinted it a year later and further editions
appeared in 1602 and later.
The engraved title-page has an architectural border with
the arms of the dedicatee, Pope Clement VIII, at the head
and putti holding instruments of the Passion. The engraving
on †4 shows the author kneeling before the Shroud of
Christ held aloft by putti, with a view of Bologna in the
background. The large folding two-colour bookblock plate
depicts the Shroud of Turin. The first block in yellow-ochre
shows the double image of the body of Christ (head to
head) and the edges of the spread-out cloth that had been
wrapped around his body. The second block in red shows
the blood of his wounds. The plate is keyed to the text with
Roman capitals (A-O) printed in black.
With contemporary owner’s name, Claudia Marescoti, on a
front end-leaf (detached). The printers slightly slurred the
foot of the copperplate title-page. Lacking the final blank.
Binding somewhat loose, with holes and tears on and near
the spine. With an occasional marginal tear (one repaired)
or hole, and a few leaves very slightly foxed, but still in good
condition and with large margins.
BMC STC Italian, p. 48; L. Fossati, Un’ opera sulla Sacra Sindone best-seller
del cinquecento (www.shroud.it/Fossati8.pdf ); Mortimer (Italian) 351.
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First carto-bibliography
37. PAULLI, Simon the younger. Orbis terraqueus in tabulis geographicis et
hydrographicis descriptus, ...
Strassbourg, “ïn officina libraria editoris” [= bookshop of the compiler Paulli],
1670. Small 80 (18 x 11 cm). Boards (ca. 1700?), red sprinkled edges.
€ 5.000
First and only edition of the first carto-bibliography, systematically listing over
2200 maps and sea charts, mostly arranged geographically. The structure is clearly
presented in the hierarchical table of contents, which divides the book into three
main parts, each with its own pagination and series of quire signatures. The first
part covers maps of the ancient world, sacred and secular. The second part gives
the main catalogue of geographical maps, briefly covering the world and the arctic
before continuing with Europe, arranged by countries and sub-divided by duchy,
province, department or county, followed by Africa, Asia and America. It covers
maps by the 16th and 17th century’s leading publishers of atlases and single-sheet
maps, including Ortelius, Hondius, Blaeu, Janssonius, Visscher, Sanson, De Wit,
Danckerts and Allard, but also includes maps from more fugitive sources like local
histories. The last part describes some 130 sea charts, pilot guides and sea atlases,
mainly by Goos, Van Loon and Theunis Jacobsz.
With a marginal stain in the corner of the first 2 quires. Binding somewhat rubbed
and hinges reinforced. Good copy of a rare pioneering work of carto-bibliography.
Besterman, WBB 1157; Koeman, Collections of maps and atlasses in the Netherlands, p. 29; Meurer, “Orbis
terraqueus ...”, in: Imago mundi, 36 (1984), pp. 64-65; Phillips, List of works relating to cartography, p. 70.
Early lives of saints, with a stunning full-page woodcut by Urs Graf
38. PETRUS DE NATALIBUS. Catalogus sanctorum & gestorum eorum ex diversis voluminibus collectus: ...
(Colophon: Strasbourg, printed by Martin Flach, 1513). 20 (22.2 x 32 cm). Title-page with a woodcut decorated initial
and a 4-piece woodcut border by Hans Wechtlin, 1 full-page woodcut by Urs Graf, hundreds of woodcut decorated
uncial initials. Set mostly in rotunda gothic types. Contemporary blind-tooled pigskin over wooden boards, in a panel
design, with 2 brass clasps on leather straps with brass catchplates and anchorplates.
€ 7.500
Early edition of an influential collection of lives of the saints,
first published in Vicenza in 1493, the principal work of
Petrus de Natalibus (ca. 1350 or earlier-ca. 1400/06), Venetian
Bishop of Equilio. “A very valuable work with a wide circulation. In his arrangement of the various lives he follows the
calendar of the Church. The splendid woodcut (19 x 15.5 cm)
by Urs Graf (ca. 1485-1528?) in Switzerland shows Christ’s
Ascension, with the Apostles before him, attributes of the
four Evangelists in the corners, and God at the head. He
gives an extremely expressive rendering of the faces of Christ
and the Apostles in the tradition of Albrecht Dürer.
With a 1596 owner’s inscription and ca. 1700 engraved
armorial bookplate on the front paste-down and ca. 1800
library stamps on the title-page, all from the Waldaufstiftung
in Hall (near Innsbruck in Tirol): “Waldaufficæ fundationis/A[nn]o 1596 Halae”, “Fundationis Baldauficæ” and “Ritte
v. Baldauf ’sche Stifts-Bibliothek”. Binding rather severely
rubbed, but the rolls and lettering can still be made out.
Some worming in the first and last few leaves; occasional
browning and water stains. Fine Strasbourg print; Urs Graf ’s
splendid woodcut shows the Ascension of the Christ.
Adams N45; BMC STC German, p. 644; Ritter 1856; VD 16, P1881.
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Portuguese classic of practical navigation, with 36 maps and nautical charts
39. PIMENTEL, Manuel. Arte de navegar, em que se ensinão as regras praticas, e os modos de cartear, e de
graduar a Balestilha por via de numeros, e muitos problemas uteis aì navegação, e roteiro das viagens, e costas
maritimas de Guineì, Angola, Brazil, Indias, e Ilhas Occidentaes, e Orientaes ...
Lisbon, Miguel Manescal da Costa, 1762. 20 (30 x 20.5 cm). With 21 engraved plates (1 folding), 1 nearly full-page
engraving of a compass rose and about 10 woodcut diagrams in the text. Contemporary or near contemporary tanned
sheepskin, richly gold-tooled spine, new endpapers.
€ 7.000
Third edition of a detailed
Portuguese handbook
of navigation, primarily
concerned with navigation in
the Portuguese colonies and
former colonies in America
(including Brazil), Africa and
the East and West Indies. It
includes 18 numbered plates
containing 36 nautical charts,
maps of islands, city plans,
etc., most from these regions,
and unnumbered 3 plates (1
folding) showing instruments
(quadrants, sundials, etc.). The
author’s father Luís Serrão
Pimentel (1613-1679) wrote
a handbook of navigation in
1673, but it remained in manuscript until Manuel Pimentel
(1660-1719) published it posthumously in 1681. This and
his 1699 revised edition were shorter than the present work and had only 2 plates. In 1712, however, Pimentel greatly
expanded it and added numerous plates, bringing the book more or less to its present form.
With bookplate. Some marginal tears and worm holes restored in the foot margin at the beginning and end, but
otherwise in very good condition. Somewhat worn at the hinges and with some scratches on the back board, but
binding otherwise very good. A practical Portuguese handbook of navigation that remained a standard work into the
early 19th-century.
Borba de Moraes, p. 672; Rodrigues 1899 note; Sabin 62883 note; cf. Bosch 144.
A kind Muslim, an English mummy snatcher and John Smith before Pocahontas
40. [PURCHAS, Samuel], John SANDERSON, Henry TIMBERLAKE and others. Seer gedenckwaerdige
vojagien, van Johan Sanderson, Hendrick Timberly, en Capt. Johan Smith, door Europa, Asia en America. …
Amsterdam, Joachim van Dyck, 1678. 40. With engraved title-page, letterpress title-page with a woodcut floral ornament,
4 folding engraved illustration plates (including 1 with 4 small views). 18th-century half vellum.
€ 4.500
First and only Dutch edition of an account of the voyages of three English merchant adventurers: John Sanderson in
the Levant, Egypt and Constantinople (Istanbul), presented here as 1671-1676 but in fact describing travels in the years
1584-1602; Henry Timberlake in Jerusalem (1601); and the young John Smith in the Ottoman Empire (ca. 1598-1604)
before his more famous voyage to America. All three are loosely translated from the relevant accounts in Purchas his
pilgrimes, London, 1625, but the accounts of Sanderson and Timberlake are written in the first person. The present
publisher added some texts from other sources, and the frontispiece and other illustrations, etched and engraved in
a style sometimes reminiscent of Romein de Hooghe, are also new. Timberlake, though Protestant himself, shocked
more narrow-minded Protestants by his accounts of the kindness of a Muslim Moor journeying from Fez to Mecca,
who had joined his ship at Algiers and secured his release when he was arrested in Jerusalem.
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Slightly browned and
with the title-page backed,
apparently to strengthen
it after a library stamp
on the back was erased,
minor and mostly marginal
smudges or spots and
a small marginal tear,
but otherwise in good
condition and with
generous margins. Lacking
the final blank leaf. The
dedication was supposed to
precede the publisher’s note
to the reader, but is here
bound after it. The binding
is rubbed and tattered,
with most of the title-label
gone. First Dutch edition
of a fascinating account of
English merchant adventurers in the Levant, Egypt
and the Ottoman Empire:
Indiana Jones ca. 1600.
Alden & Landis 678/140; Sabin 78871; STCN (6 copies); Tiele, Bibl. 955.
Indispensable guide to Dutch iconology in Rembrandt’s day, with 196 woodcuts
41. RIPA, Cesare. Iconologia, of uytbeeldingen des
verstands: … Om uyt te drucken, en te vinden, ‘t begrip van
alle sinnebeelden, invallen, devijsen of sinteykenen. …
Amsterdam, Dirck Pietsz. Pers, 1644. 40. With engraved allegorical frontispiece and 196 emblematic woodcut illustrations
(ca. 8.5 x 6 cm) in the text by Jan Christoffel Jegher. Parchment
(ca. 1725?).
€ 2.750
First Dutch edition, newly and extensively illustrated, of a
famous encyclopaedia of iconology, the Iconologia of Cesare
Ripa (1560- 1645). It describes about 650 symbolic human or
semi-human figures, illustrates nearly 200, and was intended as
a guide for all kinds of artists, writers, orators and amateurs. In
the present 1644 edition the Amsterdam publisher, bookseller
and poet Dirck Pietersz. Pers (1581-1659) translated and edited
Ripa’s text and Castellini’s additions and made further additions
of his own. He also included 196 woodcut illustrations cut for
this edition based on a selection of those in the 1630 edition. It
was in this form that Ripa’s work was best known to artists in
the Dutch golden age and it remained in use by painters and
designers for the decorative arts far into the 18th century.
With water stains throughout, serious in the first few and last
few leaves, and marginal tears or restorations in a few leaves, but
still in good condition and with large margins. The binding is
uniformly abraded but structurally sound. An important source of
knowledge and inspiration for artists of the Dutch golden age.
Landwehr, Emblem books Low Countries 683; Praz, p. 474.
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First edition of an Italian work on physics in the wake of Galileo’s trial
42. ROSSET TI, Donato. Antignome fisico-matematiche
con il nuovo orbe, e sistema terrestre.
Livorno, Giovanni Vincenzo Bonfigli, 1667. 40. With
66 woodcut diagrams and other illustrations in text.
Contemporary limp sheepskin parchment, with 2 fastenings
made from loops of braided cord on the front cover but only
traces of thongs on the back.
€ 7.500
Rare first edition of a handbook of physics, including optics,
mechanics, fluid dynamics and cosmography, illustrated with
numerous woodcut diagrams and other illustrations in the
text. It was written by Donato Rossetti, professor of natural
philosophy at Pisa, in the wake of Galileo’s 1633 trial for
promoting the heliocentric theory of the solar system. Rossetti
later became tutor in mathematics to the Duke of Savoy and
professor of mathematics at Turin. The book is a refutation of
Geminiano Montanari’s Pensieri fisico-matematici (Bologna
1667). In the period shortly after Galileo, experimentalists like
Montanari (1633-1675) engaged in a battle against the more
mystical views of scientists such as Rossetti.
With an early Italian owner’s inscription on the title-page. In
very good condition, with only a couple small marginal holes
in the title-page. The parchment has a couple stains and a
couple holes in the spine, but is otherwise very good.
BMC STC Italian, p. 796; Poggendorff II, col. 700; Riccardi I, R-col. 394;
Thorndike VII, p. 583; not in Honeyman.
Newly edited works on rhetoric, in Aire-sur-la-Lys prize binding
43. RU TILI US LUPUS, Publius and 15 others (François PITHOU, ed.). [Antiqui rhetores Latini.] ...
Omnia ex codd. manusc. emendatiora vel auctiora.
Paris, Adrien Périer (ex officina Plantiniana), 1599. Large 40. Set in roman types with incidental italic, Greek and
Hebrew. Contemporary gold-tooled calf with 18th-century restorations, with the arms of Aire-sur-la-Lys (an eagle)
flanked by “S.P.Q. ... Arien[sis]”. Rebacked with the original backstrip laid down.
€ 2.950
First edition of a collection of 15 classical and mediaeval school texts
on the art of rhetoric, in a rare 16th-century French prize binding from
Aire-sur- la-Lys, in the French department Pas-de Calais, on the border
of French Flanders and Artois. Although most of these works had been
published before in some form, the present collection was based on an
unpublished manuscript. It therefore provided an independent source
for these works as well as bringing them together in one convenient
volume for students. The manuscripts edited here came from the library
of the celebrated French lawyer, humanist and scholar François Pithou
(1543-1621), a pupil of Cujas and later attorney-general at Troyes. He is
believed to have edited the texts himself for the present publication.
With 2 owners’ names and 2 bookplates. In very good condition and
only slightly trimmed, leaving generous margins, with marginal water
stains in a few leaves, reaching the text in 1 quire. Binding rebacked,
with the original backstrip laid down, slightly rubbed and with superficial cracks, traces of 2 pair of leather ties. A 1599 collection of works on
rhetoric, taken from a previously unpublished manuscript.
Adams R448; BMC STC French, p. 256; for Pithou: NBG XL, cols. 345-346.
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Collection of treatises concerning trilobites, from the library of King Johann of Saxony
44. TILESI US, Adolph von [=Wilhelm Gottlieb
T ILESI US von TILNAU]. Naturhistorische Abhandlungen
und Erläuterungen besonders die Petrefactenkunde betreffend[.]
Kassel, Johann Christian Krieger & Co., 1826. Royal 40 (31 x
21 cm). With 8 numbered hand-coloured lithographed folding
plates. Contemporary red grained gold-tooled sheepskin, richly
gold-tooled spine.
€ 12.500
First and only edition of an early work on fossilized invertebrates
by German naturalist and draftsman Wilhelm Gottlieb Tilesius
von Tilenau (1769-1857). The main work consists of 9 treatises
concerning trilobites, a well-known fossil group of extinct marine
arthropods. The book discusses and illustrates other species as well.
It includes 10 detailed and colourful plates, many with numerous
figures, illustrating the specimens mentioned in the text, all lithographed after drawings made by Tilesius himself.
With the crowned J owner’s stamp of King Johann of Saxony
(1801-1873), reigned 1854-1873, on the title-page (Lugt 1405), and
a deaccession stamp on the reverse with a hand-written identification number. In very good condition, with the leaves fresh
and crisp, with only some minor foxing on the leaves to which
the folding plates are attached. Some minor wear to the upper
right corner of the front board and a small tear at the top of
the spine, but binding otherwise in very good condition.
BMC NH, p. 2115; Nissen, ZBI 4140 (erroneously dated 1827); Vosmaer, Bibl. of
sponges, p. 21; Ward 2174; William Patrick Watson, Catalogue 7, no. 104 (1996).
Transcripts of official documents of the district Het Vrije van Sluis in Zeeland
45. [VRIJE VAN SLUIS]. Keuren van ‘t Vrye en ‘t Leenhof tot Sluys in Vlaanderen. Anno 1743.
[Sluis (in Zeeland), 1743]. 20 (33 x 21 cm). Manuscript written in Dutch, in brown ink on paper, with the coat of
arms of the district Vrije van Sluis on the title-page coloured by a contemporary hand in opaque gouaches and gold.
Contemporary tanned sheepskin, gold-tooled spine.
€ 2.500
A manuscript compiled in 1743, at least partly by Adriaan Reynesteyn (b.
ca. 1700?), born, married and living in Sluis, transcribing ten extensive
manuscripts (and adding two indexes) containing official documents of the
district known as Het Vrije van Sluis, in southwestern Zeeland on what is
now the Dutch-Belgian border. The manuscripts transcribed range in date
from 1542 to 1695 and record the district’s statutes, ordinances, regulations
for the division and inheritance of land, rules of litigation, remuneration
of district officials for various services, and feudal, customary and common
law. At the end of each section, the compiler gives the date and source of
the original manuscript, the name of the registrar who signed the original
and often the names of the burgomasters and other officials. One notes
that Adriaan Reynesteyn made the present copy on 29 October 1743 and
many, but not all, appear to be in the same hand.
On 5 pages the last letter or number of some lines has been shaved, but
can still be read. Otherwise in very good condition, with only some small
worm holes in the head of the gutter margin in the first few quires. The
binding is scuffed and has a few tears. A wealth of important material for
the history of the district Het Vrije van Sluis in Zeeland.
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Bo oks on t he D utc h in Japan
An attack on a Dutch steamer by a rogue daimyo
46. CASEMBROOT, François de. De Medusa in de Wateren van Japan, in 1863 en 1864.
The Hague, Gebroeders Van Cleef, 1865. 80. With 5 tinted folding lithographed maps. 19th-century half cloth, with
the original publisher’s wrappers pasted on front and back board.
€ 5.000
On 11 july 1863, the Dutch steamer
Medusa was attacked by the
ships and batteries of the daimyo
of Chôshû, while crossing the
narrow Strait of Simonoseki. The
Chôshû were resentful of the
official policy to welcome foreigners in Japan and attacked the
Dutch ship. Although the crew
and its commander François de
Casembroot(1817-1895), bravely
fought back, Medusa was struck
twenty times and four members
of her crew were killed. The
following year this incident lead
to the so-called Shimonoseki
Campaign in which Dutch,
French, British and American
ships retaliated and secured a safe passage for foreign shipping through this important stretch of water.
Casembroot’s account of the incident and the following campaign was published in 1865 and by popular demand
reprinted in the same year.
A few spots, the map with a small tear, half-title browned, otherwise in very good condition.
Tiele, Bibl. 234; Cordier, Japonica, col. 579; Cat. NHSM, p. 480.
Originally owned by the ship’s first mate
47. CASEMBROOT, François de. De Medusa in de wateren
van Japan, in 1863 en 1864 ... Tweede druk, met een plaatje en twee
kaartjes.
The Hague, Gebroeders Van Cleef, 1865. 80. With lithographed
frontispiece, showing the steamer Medusa in the Strait Simonoseki,
and 2 large folding maps showing the battle formations near Japan,
all 3 lithographed by S. Lankhout. Original publisher’s lithographed
wrappers.
€ 3.500
Second edition of an account of the attack on the Dutch steamer
Medusa by a Japanese fleet at the entrance of the narrow Strait
of Simonoseki and the consequent campaign to maintain a free
passage for trading. The account was written by captain-lieutenant
in the Royal Dutch Navy, François de Casembroot (1817-1895),
commander of Medusa.
Back of frontispiece with 20th-century bookplate of G.J. v.d.
Weijer, who states in a note on inside back wrapper that the
volume once belonged to one of his ancestors, who served as First
Mate aboard Medusa. The frontispiece slightly foxed. Spine slightly
damaged, otherwise in very good condition.
Cf. Tiele, Bibl. 234 (1st ed.); Cordier, Japonica, col. 579 (idem); cf. Cat. NHSM, p. 480
(idem).
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The opening of Japan to the West
48. DOREN, Jan Baptist Jozef van. De openstelling van Japan voor de vreemde natiën in 1856. Volgens zoowel
uitgegevene, als niet uitgegevene bronnen. Opgedragen aan zijne excellentie den heer minister van staat J.J. Rochussen,
oud gouverneur-generaal van Nederlandsch-Indië.
Amsterdam, J.D. Sybrandi, 1861. 80. With lithographed frontispiece by G.J. Scheurleer. Contemporary half sheepskin,
decorated paper sides, Spanish-marbled endpapers.
€ 1.750
First and only edition of this scarce account
of the opening of Japan to the West. The work
gives a detailed history of the Russian, French,
English and American attempts to force Japan to
open its ports to foreign ships. The present work
was partly based on unpublished sources and
gives interesting details on the political relations
between Japan and the Netherlands, the reform
of the Japanese administration and monetary
system, as well as the geography, industry and
culture of Japan.
Faint library stamps on half-title, spine with
manuscript shelfmark. Some faint spotting. Spine discoloured and slightly damged at head and foot, binding shows
some wear, otherwise in very good condition.
Cordier, Japonica, col. 555; Hesselink, “333 Years of Dutch Publications on Japan”, in: Studies in the History of Western Science in Japan vol. 9, V-A2 37; not
in Wenckstern.
A Dutch commander’s Japanese diary with a large lithographed map
49. H UYSSEN VAN KAT TENDYKE, Willem Johan Cornelis. Uittreksel uit het dagboek van W.J.C. Ridder
Huyssen van Kattendyke, Kapitein-Luit. ter zee, gedurende zijn verblijf in Japan in 1857, 1858 en 1859.
The Hague, W.P. van Stockum (printed by Giunta
d’Albani), 1860. 80. With large folding lithographed map (67 x 54.5 cm) depicting the west
coast of Japan and Kiusiu, by E. Spanier after
H.O. Wichers. Original publisher’s printed stiff
paper wrappers.
€ 5.500
Author’s presentation copy of the first and only
edition of a description of Japan by the Dutch
naval commander Willem Johan Cornelis
Huyssen van Kattendyke (1816-1866), recording
events of his service in Nagasaki and surroundings in 1857, 1858 and 1859. It is a revised excerpt
from his diary, with a lithographed map by H.O.
Wichers, based on the maps and measurements of
Von Siebold and recent measurements by Huyssen
van Kattendyke’s colleagues. It describes the last
years of Japan’s sakoku policy.
With the author’s presentation label on the inside
of the front wrapper: “Present-Exemplaar van
den Schrijver”. Library stamps and labels on front
cover, flyleaf and title-page. Book block detached,
spine damaged, repaired with clear tape. With
some occasional minor spots, but otherwise internally still a good copy.
Cat. NHSM, p. 478; Cordier, Japonica, col. 552; map not in
Walter; for the author: NNBW V, col. 254.
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Maarten Gerritsz. de Vries’ journey to the north of Japan (1643)
With accompanying information by Von Siebold
50. LEUPE, Pieter Arend. Reize van Maarten Gerritsz. Vries in 1643 naar het noorden en oosten van Japan.
Including: SIEBOLD, Philipp Franz Balthasar von. Aardrijks- en volkenkundige toelichtingen tot de ontdekkingen
van Maerten Gerritsz. Vries, met het fluitschip Castricum a[nn]o. 1643.
Amsterdam, Frederik Muller; [The Hague], Koninklijk instituut voor taal-, land en volkenkunde van Nederlandsch Indië,
1858. 2 parts in 1 volume. 80. With lithographed folding plate with reproductions of six signatures and a folded lithographed reproduction of the original map of Maarten Gerritsz. de Vries, coloured in outline. Modern black cloth with
original publisher’s front wrapper pasted on front board. Untrimmed, preserving deckles and point holes.
€ 4.950
First edition of a transcription of the original 17th-century manuscript ship’s log of the ship Castricum under the
command of Maarten Gerritsz. de Vries, on its journey to the north of Japan to discover the coast of Tartary. Included
is a geographical and anthropological commentary written especially for this publication but also separately published
in the same year, by the well-known Philipp Franz Balthasar von Siebold (1796-1866), a German physician and botanist,
sent to Dejima ( Japan) in service of the Dutch and the first European allowed to teach Western medicine to the
Japanese. An English translation of Siebold’s part was published in 1859.
The log kept by Cornelis Jansz. Coen gives a day to day account of the exploratory voyage to Tartary under the
command of De Vries and on account of Anthony van Diemen, the governor in Batavia. Since they were not yet sure
whether Japan was connected to the continent they chose a route along the east coast of Japan. The log starts 4 April
1643 when they set off from Ternate (Moluccas) with two ships, the Castricum and the Breskens, and ends 18 November
1643 in Taiwan. The editor Pieter Arend Leupe also added transcriptions of several 17th-century documents related to
the voyage.
Title-page and its conjugate detached and shaved, last quire, the map and the plate detached, otherwise in good
condition and untrimmed.
Cat. NHSM, p. 180 (cf. p. 236 for separate Siebold edition); Cordier, Japonica, col. 356; Nipponalia 2086; Tiele, Bibl. 1183; Walter, Japan a cartographic
vision, pp. 38-39.
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Dejima’s pictorial heritage
51. LEVYSSOHN, Joseph Henry. Bladen over Japan. Met eene afbeelding van Decima.
The Hague, Belinfante, 1852. 80. With large folding lithographed bird’s eye view of Deshima (32.5 x 46), with the Dutch
flag hand-coloured. Original publisher’s printed wrappers. Untrimmed and with the bolts unopened.
€ 8.500
First edition of an important historical work on Japan, mainly on Dutch-Japanese relations and especially Dejima
by Joseph Henry Levyssohn (1800-1883) who stayed at Dejima as “opperhoofd” from 1845 to 1851. During his term
of office Levyssohn mediated the repatriation of American Sailors who had drifted onto the Japanese coast and the
Japanese negotiations with the American and French warships which arrived. Upon returning home, he published his
memoirs Bladen over Japan, in 1852, with the plan of Dejima showing its new design for the entrance of the Captain’s
house and the absence of the warehouse no. 15 at the southern coast.
The work includes a history of Dutch-Japanese relations, notes on Levyssohn’s time as “opperhoofd’’, official papers
and notes on the North-American and Japanese trade relations, and a some remarks on the so-called “gold islands” in
Japanese waters. It concludes with an extensive, 39-page bibliography on Japan.
Spine damaged and some sewing supports broken, splitting the bookblock, otherwise in good condition, untrimmed
and with the bolts unopened.
Alt Japan Kat. 838; Cordier, Japonica 507; not in Nipponalia.
An account of Japan during the late Tokugawa Shogunate
52. LINDAU, Rudolf. Japan. Eene reisbeschrijving.
Leiden, De Breuk & Smits, 1865. 80. With lithographed title-page including a tinted lithographic view of a Japanese
house and 6 people, after a photograph (protected by a tissue guard, tipped in). Later half cloth with contemporary
boards.
€ 4.950
Rare first and only Dutch edition of Lindau’s description of Japan, translated from the French edition published
at Paris in 1864. Lindau discusses Nagasaki (including Dejima), Manchuria, Edo and Yokohama, with extensive
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remarks on Japanese politics and culture, including a detailed account of a
sumo wrestling match. Writing during the so-called “Bakumatsu” (the late
Tokugawa Shogunate), the author devotes three chapters to the Japanese
political associations and networks after Commodore Matthew Perry signed
the 1854 Treaty of Kanagawa.
Lindau (1829-1910), a German-born diplomat, travelled extensively in
Japan from 1859 to 1862, partly in the Swiss diplomatic service. Parts of the
present work first appeared in Revue des deux mondes. The present Dutch
edition contains a preface by Nisi Sioesoeke, a Japanese military officer
and law student at Leiden University, who testifies that Lindau’s work, in
sharp contrast with those that came before, is largely “very accurate and in
agreement with the truth”, though he notes it is “not entirely free of errors
on political matters” and the rendering of some Japanese words with the
Latin alphabet.
Inside front board with remains of a leaf with manuscript notes of a reading
circle, half-title with owner’s inscription. Some browning and soiling, corner
of half-title torn off. Spine slightly damaged. Overall still a good copy.
Hesselink, 333 years of Dutch publications on Japan V-B 118; NCC (8 copies); Wenckstern, p. 47;
WorldCat (4 copies); cf. Cordier, Japonica, cols. 554-555 (French edition); for the author: NDB XIV, p. 575.
Account of the Japanese Empire around 1850
53. POMPE VAN MEERDERVOORT, Johan Lidius Cathrinus. Vijf jaren in Japan. (1857-1863). Bijdragen tot
de kennis van het Japansche Keizerrijk en zijne bevolking.
Leiden, Van den Heuvel and Van Santen, 1867-1868. 2 volumes. 80. Each volume with tinted lithographed frontispiece,
further with large folding lithographed map of Japan and the Chinese coast, printed in two colours, 12 full-page
plates, lithographed by P.W.M. Trap (10 colour-printed and finished by hand). Original publisher’s blind-blocked and
gold-tooled purple cloth, marbled edges, green ribbon marker.
€ 5.000
First edition of a rare and famous account of the Japanese Empire during the years in which Japan slowly and cautiously
opened up to the West. Much attention is paid to the relations between Japan and the European nations from the 15th
century to the 1850s, when Japan concluded treaties with the Kingdom of the Netherlands, England and the United States.
It is written by the Dutch Government physician at Japan, Jhr. Johan L.C. Pompe van Meerdervoort (1829-1908), who lived
in Japan for more then five years.
The beuatifully coloured plates show
Japanese costumes. It concludes with
the complete texts of the treaties
concluded by Japan after Perry’s
expedition: with the United States of
America (March 1854), with GreatBritain (October 1854), and finally
with the Kingdom of the Netherlands
(November 1855 and August 1858).
The work is dedicated to the Japanese
Emperor Minamoto IJemotsi.
Some faint library stamps, spines
with manuscript shelfmark. First
frontispiece detached and reattached, front flyleaves pasted down,
some sewing supports of 2nd
volume broken. Spines discoloured,
corners bumped, otherwise in good
condition.
Cordier, Japonica, col. 588; Landwehr,
Coloured Plates 395; Lipperheide 1563; Tiele,
Bibl. 873.
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Se l e ct e d Bibl io g rap hy
Comprehensive Luyken bibliography
54. EEEGHEN, P. van and J. Ph van der KELLEN.
Het werk van Jan en Caspar Luyken … met 56 platen.
Deel I[-II].
Amsterdam, Frederik Muller & Co., 1905. 2 volumes.
With 56 plates. Contemporary half morocco, goldtooled spine.
€ 300
First edition of the comprehensive catalogue of engraved
portraits of Dutchmen, published as a continuation of
Frederik Muller’s Beschrijvende catalogus van 7000 portretten van Nederlanders.
Some minor foxing on first few leaves, spine faded; very
good copy.
Comprehensive bibliography of work of the well-known
Dutch 17th-century draughtsmen and engravers Jan and
Caspar Luyken.
A few occasional spots, bindings slightly rubbed along
the extremities. Very good untrimmed copy.
Classic bibliography of atlases
published in Netherlands
58. KOEMAN, C. Atlantes Neerlandici. Bibliography
of terrestrial, maritime and celestial atlases and pilot
books, published in the Netherlands up to 1880[-1940].
Amsterdam, Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, 1967-1985. 6
volumes (incl. supplement). Blue cloth (volume 6, as
usual, somewhat darker blue).
€ 950
Catalogue of van Hulthem’s enormous library
55. H ULTHEM, Charles van (A. VOISIN,
cataloguer). Bibliotheca Hulthemiana ou Catalogue
méthodique de la riche et précieuse collection de livres
et des manuscrits.
Ghent, J. Poelman, 1836-1837. 6 volumes. 80. With lithographed portrait of Charles van Hulthem as frontispiece.
Contemporary half goatskin.
€ 2.500
Including the supplement volume.
Spines slightly faded and some marginal rubbing along
the extremities, one volume with the hinges cracekd.
Very good set.
Bibliography of the Plantin Press
First edition of the auction catalogue of the enormous
library of the Belgian collector Charles Joseph
Emmanuel van Hulthem (1764-1832), containing 31,686
books and 1016 manuscripts.
“These notes are not, as is usually the case, lifted from
obvious and readily available sources …” (Taylor).
With library stamp (“Libro di F. Lecaldano”) on titlepages. Foxed and the binding with the sides rubbed.
Otherwise a good set.
59. VOET, Leon. The Plantin Press (1555-1589). A
bibliography of the works printed and published by
Christopher Plantin at Antwerp and Leiden.
Amsterdam, Van Hoeve, 1980-1983. 6 volumes. Blue
cloth.
€ 1.100
“This bibliography tries to give a description of all the
works printed and published by the Golden Compasses
of Christopher Plantin at Antwerp and by his officina at
Leiden, from the beginning till the death of the archprinter on 1 July 1589, with reference to his correspondence and archives” (Introduction).
Fine set.
Taylor, Book catalogues, pp. 246-247.
Printmaking in Antwerp
56. STOCK, Jan van der. Printing images in Antwerp.
The introduction of printmaking in a city: fifteenth
century to 1585. Translated from the Dutch by Beverly
Jackson.
Rotterdam, Sound & Vision Interactive, 1998. Black
cloth, with dustjacket.
€ 175
The library of the Dutch National
Maritime Museum
60. [VOORBEIJ TEL CANNENBURG, W.,
(foreword)]. Nederlandsch Historisch Scheepvaart
Museum: Catalogus der bibliotheek.
Amsterdam, Nico Israel, 1960. 2 volumes. Original blue
cloth.
€ 150
First edition of the English translation.
Fine copy.
Comprehensive catalogue of engraved
portraits of Dutchmen
Some very minor rubbing to the extremities, otherwise
in very good condition.
57. SOMEREN, J.F. van. Beschrijvende catalogus
van gegraveerde portretten van Nederlanders.
Amsterdam, Frederik Muller & Co., 1888-1891. 3 parts in
1 volume. 80. Contemporary green cloth.
€ 225
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