1875 - 3189 OLD and RARE BOOKS
- First 40p. (incl. frontisp. portr.) badly stained; occas. soiled/ sl. stained; some lvs. w. wormhole in inner blank margin. Binding badly worn.
= Cf. Cat. NHSM p.136 and Tiele 42.
- Both vols. hinges weak; vol.1 one leaf torn over 15 cm; vol.2 occas. sl. foxed/ browned. Both vols. lack backstrip. Partly unopened.
= Cat. NHSM p.946; Dekkers p.9, 5; Cat. Handel in theorie en praktijk 803.
- All (sl.) yellowed. Fold. map in first work w. repaired tear. = Tiele 5.
AND: (Journael Van 't geen vijf Schepen, van Rotterdam, in 't Jaer 1598 den 27 Juny, na de straet Magelanes Varende, over gekomen is (....)) ((Amst., G.J. Saeghman, ±1663), 2 engr. and 2 wooduct ills., modern boards, sm. 4to. Lacks title; last textleaf dam. w. loss of text. Tiele, Mémoire 13f).
- Partly yellowed/ browned. Frontcover loose; binding w. some worn spots.
= Nice plates of sea-battles. Cat. NHSM p.844. The most important old source on the famous Dutch admiral.
- Lacks 1 single-p. plate; some textleaves browned; the large battle scene at "Kijkduin en Helder" is foxed. Upper joint splitting.
= Nice plates of sea-battles. Cat. NHSM p.844. The most important old source on the famous Dutch admiral. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE.
- Joints rubbed; upper joint starting at top of spine. Fine copy.
= Cat. NHSM p.844. The most important old source on the famous Dutch admiral.
- Lacks 2 plates; one leaf w. (ink?)stain; occas. sl. foxed; three plates sl. split at lower end of fold (but in fine condition). Binding rebacked w. modern vellum (the old vellum on frontcover loosening and dam.).
= Cat. NHSM p.844. The large battle scene at "Kijkduin en Helder" in fine condition. The most important old source on the famous Dutch admiral.
- Bookseller's ticket on upper pastedown. Upper joint split; binding worn. Contents fine.
= Dechales's text outlines, with ample illustrations, the practical principles of navigation and includes an introductory chronological bibliography on the subject in the preliminary leaves. Included are references to Simon Stevin, Snell, Fournier, Riccioli, Schott, Zamorano, Apianus and García de Céspedes. Rare. Bell D93; Houzeau & Lancaster 10717.
= Cf. Tiele 5.
- Pastedowns browned. Backstrip dam.
= Rahir 372; Willems 385; Ter Meulen/ Diermanse 545. Also contains Boxhorn's Apologia pro navigationibus Hollandorum.
- Both (sl.) yellowed. = Tiele 5.
- Lacks 2 fold. plates; all vols. w. modern bookplate on first blank; some (sl.) occas. foxing. Paper over covers partly rubbed/ chafed; top of spine vol. 1 chipped.
= Fine set (the 2nd work with the rare fifth part). F.M. 4435; Arpots 243 (w. annot. that the portraits were issued separately after the publication of the work).
- Endpapers sl. frayed; upper hinge split; occas. soiled/ (water)stained (first and last lvs. somewhat worse). Binding stained.
= Cat. NHSM II, p.1021; Waller gives a 5th ed. of the orig. work, 1725.
- Fine, clean copy.
= Originally part of the 8vo edition of J.J. STRUYS, Voyages en Moscovie (...).
- Occas. trifle foxed/ yellowed. Spine worn/ sl. dam. and split(ting); wr. frayed; frontwr. lacks portion of lower corner and w. sm. mounted ticket.
= Roggeveen's journal, after the copy in the West Indian archive. Tiele 934; Cat. NHSM I, p.123; Henze IV, p.642ff; Sabin 72767; Mendelssohn II, p.243.
= Knuttel 19334 and 19536.
- Occas. sl. yellowed.
= The second and third of in total 12 vols. published up to 1780. Compilation of numerous important legal and official proclamations, ordinances, of interest for whaling and herring fishery, VOC and WIC affairs, maritime law, etc. Cat. NHSM p.347.
- Browned. Wrapper dam.
= Knuttel 9245; Tiele 5366; cat. NHSM I, p.415f. "Belangrijk stuk, waarschijnlijk van staatswege uitgegeven. De laatste Missive, waarvan de titel spreekt, is van Johan de Witt zelven, gericht aan den Pensionaris Vivien en gedagteekend den 17 Aug. 1665. Men weet dat de Witt dezen tocht als Gedeputeerde mededeed en zelf de bewuste ontdekking maakte." (Knuttel).
- Later endpapers; a few quires yellowed; 2 plates trimmed to/ just inside the border. Vellum duststained; frontcover prob. reattached (vellum over upper joint partly split).
= Cat. NHSM p.844. The most important old source on the famous Dutch admiral.
- Upper hinge partly split; partly w. waterstain in lower blank margin/ part; wormhole in lower margin; lvs. yellowed/ sl. browned. Upper joint splitting; vellum soiled.
= Van Eeghen/ Van der Kellen 219; Klaversma/ Hannema 866. Includes the often lacking frontispiece and 6 fine fold. plates of sea battles.