2685 - 3623 OLD and RARE BOOKS
- One leaf w. hole (w. loss of a few words); nudity of halfnaked men and women on most of the ills. and on title-vignettes censured in (near contemp.) pen and ink; one map ("De Roode Zee") dam. in margin of image; some maps strengthened w. paper on verso along margins/ on folds; all vols. w. new endpapers and all w. a stamp on htitle ("Jette S. Magdalena [...]" partly illegible); occas. sl. fingersoiled in margin; maps occas. yellowed/ sl. browned. Nevertheless a good and extremely rare set.
= Cat. NHSM 107; Tiele 10; Sabin 5; Muller, America 1887. A very good and near complete (if not complete) set of the folio edition, of which even separate vols. are rare. Each set of two vols. is devoted to the collected voyages of the Portuguese, the Spaniards, the English and the other nations. Only the voyages of the Dutch are not incorporated into the work. Each voyage has a separate title and index. SEE ILLUSTRATIONS PLATE LXXXI.
- Sl. mediocre copy: lacks 4 plates; a few plates loose(ning)/ dam.; bookblock shaken; upper hinge (nearly) broken; yellowed and fingersoiled throughout; general title lacks upper corner. Vellum worn/ sl. dam. and stained/ darkened.
= Cf. Tiele 5. Contains 2 parts: 1. "Seer Aanmerkelijke Scheeps-Togten, Gedaan door Franciscus Pizarrus en Didacus Almagrus, Van Panama Na Peru. In den Jare 1526"; 2. "Staat-zugtige scheeps-togten en krygsbedryven ter handhaving van der Portugyzen Opperbestuur in Oost-Indien, door Don Lopo vaz de Sampayo, gedaan in 't Jaar 1526".
- New endpapers. Fine copy.
= Tiele 173; Gay 2808; Henze I, 304 ("zuverlässiger und vollständiger als die früheren Berichte über Ober-Guinea"); cat. NHSM p.204 and cf. Kainbacher I, p.153. The very rare first edition, divided in 22 letters, written from S. George del Mina, the main Dutch trading-station, where the author was chief merchant in the service of the West-India-Company from 1689-1702. Chief source for the knowledge of the Dutch slave-trade during the latter half of the 17th century and important for the history of the commercial rivalry with the English, Danes and Brandeburgers. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXXXI.
- New endpapers. Rebacked.
= First English edition. The ship Commerce struck near Cape Bojador on August 28, 1815. The whole crew reached shore but the inhabitants forced them back to the wreck. They repaired the ship and after their second landing near Cape Barba, the crew was captured and enslaved by the people of the Cape. Gay 2789; cf. Kainbacher I, p.113 (listing the German ed. 1817); Sabin 71398; Henze IV, p.618.
- Margins cut sl. short; first quire loosening (but holding on 1 cord); margins occas. restored/ strengthened w. paper.
= Rare German transl. of a Dutch treatise by Lutheran Franz Alard on the statutes of the Roman Church, first published Frankf. a.M., 1560. ADB I, p.172; VD17 1:676151Q (only 1 copy).
- Upper hinge weak; lacks free endpapers; scattered owner's annots.; 1 leaf w. sm. holes (printing flaw); occas. (sl.) foxed/ browned. Vellum soiled/ dam.
= Provenance: convent of San Vincenzo in Modena w. its stamp ("Bibliot C.R.S. Vinc. Mutinae") on title-p. and library ticket on spine.
- Fine. = Nijhoff/ Van Hattum 343.
ADDED: Soeteboom, H. Oud-heden van Zaan-land, Stavoren, Vronen en Waterland (...). Amst., W. Linnig van Koppenol, 1702, rev. ed., 3 parts in 1 vol. (of 2), 32,(4),199; (8),254; (16),176,(18)p., engr. title, 3 divis. titles, 14 plates, contemp. vellum, sm. 8vo.
- Without the 2nd vol.; owner's stamp on upper pastedown; some offsetting from plates. Remnants of ticket on spine.
= Contains Op- en Neder-gank van Stavoren; Vroonens Begin, Midden, en Eynde and De Soet-stemmende Zwaane van Waterland. Nijhoff/ Van Hattum 294; cat. Honig 201.
- Occas. (sl.) foxed. One vol. upper hinge broken, front cover and backstrip loose; all vols. trifle/ sl. worn along extremities.
= With contributions by i.a. N. Beets, W. Bilderdijk, J.M. Dautzenberg, L.J.A. Tollens, J.J.L. ten Kate, A. Winkler Prins, and J. van Lennep.
Holland. Almanak voor 1852-1855. Ed. J. van Lennep. Amst., Gebr. Kraay, 1852-1855, 4 vols., steelengr. plates, orig. (not unif.) gilt and blindst. cl., a.e.g., sm. 8vo. - AND 6 others: MUZEN-ALMANAK (1856 and 1858) and ALMANAK VOOR HET SCHOONE EN GOEDE (1852-1855).
- Each title-p. sl. soiled/ frayed; bindings trifle worn.
= One frontcover w. black stamped lion in the Dutch garden and another w. engraving of the coat of arms of Bloemendaal; 1 vol. with letterpress "De veldwachters van Bloemendaal (...) wenschen U veel heil en zegen in het Nieuwejaar" and another w. "De knecht van de buurt" on backcover. Provenance: the collection A.M. van den Broek.
- Lacks (at least) 2 lvs.; lacks first free endpaper; a few pages sl. stained; upper pastedown torn (partially repaired). Vellum (sl.) stained/ soiled.
= The title-p. states that the author is an Astronomist, and as such, the first part includes information on i.a. the phases of the moon. This copy also includes "Wacht Almanach des Borgerlyken Regiments der Stad Groningen, Voor den Jaare 1784. (...)" and "Bestellinge Der Generaliteits, Provintiale, ende voor yder lidt Particuliere Ambten van de Provintie van Stadt en Lande, voor den Jare 1784. (...)". Rare.
AND 1 other.
- Occas. sl. waterst. Boards sl. worn.
= Besides the usual calendar/ almanac part, the work contains several (biblical) sections which are all continuations of previous years, each with its own separate continued pagination, i.a. "Vervolg van de Rym-Bybel", "Vervolg van het Bybelsch Raadzel-Boekje", and "Vervolg van het Kort Begrip der geestelyke Land-beschryving". Cf. Waller 126 (almanac for 1784); cat. The Children's World of Learning 2559 (1770) and 2560 (1787 and 1790).
AND 1 other almanac.
- Upper hinge broken, otherwise fine. = Nijhoff/ Van Hattum 250.
- Owner's stamp and entry on first free endpaper and blank; sl. browned; partly trifle wormhold in blank margin; 2 plates w. false fold. Top of spine chipped; extremities sl. rubbed.
= Nijhoff/ Van Hattum 250.
- Sl. yellowed/ partly sl. browned; first quire and frontcover loose. Backstrip partly worn off.
= Nijhoff/ Van Hattum 250.
- Both vols. w. sm. portion cut out off title-p. and w. contemp. annot. on first free endpaper; otherwise contents fine. Bindings trifle worn; top of spine of vol. 2 (sl.) dam. A fine copy.
= Dekkers p.3. This legal handbook, used by judges and lawyers, was first published in 1642. It was reprinted frequently, each time with augmentations. It still is a very important resource for the practice of the history of Dutch law. According to Dekkers this is the 9th edition.
- New endpapers; occas. (unobtrusively) waterstained in outer blank margin. Binding fine.
= Tiele 26; Tiele, Mémoire 290; Muller, America 8; Sabin 127; Alden/ Landis 624/2; Klooster 6; De Backer/ Sommervogel I, p.35; Howgego A7 ("providing a complete analysis of the Amerindian world"); cf. Cox II, p.254f; cf. Arents 67; cf. Church 328. Important early account on the history of America, dealing i.a. with the early history of the Indians of Peru and Mexico. The work was first published in Latin in Sevilla, 1589 and first published in Spanish (Sevilla) in 1590. Acosta stayed as a Jesuit missionary in South and Middle America for a period of 17 years and "(...) was a careful and accurate observer of all that he saw, and his work is of great and intrinsic value. (...) His Historia Natural y moral de las Indias, a work of standard authority, attained great popularity, and was translated into nearly every European language. (...)" (Church). "Acosta's official duties obliged him to personally investigate a very extensive range of territory, providing him with a practical knowledge of the province, and of its aboriginal inhabitants. (...). Acosta was one of the first scholars to formulate a systemic theory of anthropology, suggesting a classification of different peoples into different types, and anticipating later theories of social evolution." (Howgego). SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXXXII.
- Duplicate stamp on first free endpaper and traces of ticket on upper pastedown; title-p. sl. (finger)soiled; preliminary leaves and final few leaves sl. waterstained in lower inner margin; partly sl. browned/ agetoned. Vellum warped; frontcover almost loose; lower joint starting.
= Tiele 26; Tiele, Mémoire 290; Muller, America 8; Sabin 127; Alden/ Landis II, 624/2; Klooster 6; De Backer/ Sommervogel I, p.35; Howgego A7 ("providing a complete analysis of the Amerindian world"); cf. Cox II, p.254f; cf. Arents 67; cf. Church 328. Important early account on the history of America, dealing i.a. with the early history of the Indians of Peru and Mexico. The work was first published in Latin in Sevilla, 1589 and first published in Spanish (Sevilla) in 1590. Acosta was a missionary in South and Middle America and stayed there for a period of 17 years. "(...) [he] was a careful and accurate observer of all that he saw, and his work is of great and intrinsic value. (...) His Historia Natural y moral de las Indias, a work of standard authority, attained great popularity, and was translated into nearly every European language. (...)" (Church). "Acosta's official duties obliged him to personally investigate a very extensive range of territory, providing him with a practical knowledge of the province, and of its aboriginal inhabitants. (...). Acosta was one of the first scholars to formulate a systemic theory of anthropology, suggesting a classification of different peoples into different types, and anticipating later theories of social evolution." (Howgego).
- Binding sl. soiled and rubbed.
= Landwehr, Dutch Books w. Col. Plates 253; Cat. NHSM, p.270; Sabin 11190; Howes C215; Howgego C63; not in Tiele. Henze I, p.518: "(...) Seine Travels erschienen erst 1778, erlebten dann aber schnell 23 Ausgaben und wurden eins der populärsten Reisewerke über N.-Amerikas. Neben der Beschreibung der Reise enthält das Werk reiche Beobachtungen über Sitten und Bräuche, Religion und Sprache der Indianer. Es findet sich darin wohl auch erstmals der Name "Oregon" als Bezeichnung des "Grossen West-Flusses", der "bei der Anian-Strasse in den Pazifik mündet."" SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXXXI.
- Occas. foxed. Paper over covers worn; backstrip sl. worn.
= Interesting work on the original inhabitants and their customs. Also contains a fine map titled "Kaart van Nieuw Vrankrijk en van Louisania" and several early references to the Niagara Falls. Sabin 31357; Alden/ Landis 688/120; Tiele 464. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXXXII.
- Binding a few sl. worn/ rubbed spots and partly sl. faded. Otherwise a fine copy.
= The first Dutch edition (2nd unchanged ed. 1751). Tiele 637; Sabin 38598; Howes L22; Alden/ Landis 731/128; Muller 863; Lipperheide Mb 6. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXXXII.