2554 - 3406 OLD and RARE BOOKS
- TItle-p. sl. frayed (just touching vignette) and stained from manuscript annot. and red collector's stamp on verso, both shining through; preliminary leaves waterstained, final 3 plates waterstained in top inner margin and a few textleaves sl. waterstained; main text occas. dampstained/ (finger)soiled in margins; 4 plates w. red collector's stamp on verso (3x shining through (mostly sl.) on recto; one textp. w. closed tear (just touching text).
= Verhoeven/ Verkruijsse 1648-01; Buisman 210; Rouffaer/ Muller p.52; Landwehr, VOC, note (re-edition of the ed. 1746); Tiele, Mémoire 171; Tiele Bibliografie 159; cf. Cat. NHSM I, p.173; Howgego I, B131. Rare complete copy of the first revised edition, with new plates by S. Saverij. Very popular itinerary, often reprinted up to the nineteenth century. The voyage of Bontekoe became a byword for a voyage full of adversities. The ship caught fire after passing Madagascar and exploded when the flames reached the powder-room. The survivors continued their voyage in a shallop and after much suffering and many adventures they were rescued in Straits Sunda by a Dutch fleet under F. Houtman. The rest of the journal narrates Bontekoe's further experiences in Indonesia and China until his safe arrival in his hometown Hoorn. "Bontekoe's Journal (...) became one of the most popular books of its genre. Written in a simple, earthy language, it ran to thirty editions in the following fifty years and was translated into nearly every European language. At one time it was reckoned to be out-selling the New Testament." (Howgego B131). SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE CXXVI.
- Library stamps on title-p.; final 5 lvs. wormholed. Library stamp on frontcover; rubbed.
- Lacks the engr. portrait; last free endpaper w. sm. hole and lacks upper outer corner; occas. sm. defects. Frontcover sl. warped.
= Glasius p.181.
- Occas. trifle foxed; a few sm. waterstains in lower outer corner. Spine strengthened w. later vellum; covers sl. stained. Good/ fine copy.
= Nijhoff/ Van Hattum 50. The first illustrated edition.
- Some offsetting from turn-ins, otherwise internally fine. Leather over spine cracked; top of spine chipped; letterpiece worn off.
- A few sl. foxed/ sl. dustsoiled pages. Otherwise a remarkably clean copy, in equally fine bindings.
= Famous dictionary, Cf. Bibliotheca Lexicorum 123 (quoting Suchy 132): "Bruzen de la Martinière war ein französischer Geograph, der es im Laufe seines Lebens zu dem Titel "Königlich Spanischer Geograph" gebracht hatte. Er ließ sich, nach zahlreichen Reisen, in Holland nieder und widmete sich dort ganz der Vollendung seines umfangreichen Wörterbuches (...)."
- Lvs. browned; new endpapers. Spine-ends repaired.
= Very rare. Landwehr, VOC, 294. Account of the VOC-cartographer Jacob de Bucqouy, posted in Fort Lijdzaamheid (present day Maputo, Mozambique). This VOC post was a financial failure and on top of that the Dutch fort was raided by English pirates in 1722 and part of the VOC employees were taken as hostages. Part of the hostages and the pirate crew were dropped at Madagascar. The author spent 3 years on the island. After that he and others built a small vessel that reached Mozambique and the few survivors of that voyage found a ship that took them to Goa, India. He reached the Dutch VOC posts on the Malabar coast and was finally taken to Batavia, Dutch Indies. In Batavia he found employment as taxcollector and mathmatics teacher. In 1731 he took an appointment as a bookkeeper in Ligor, Siam (Thailand), where he was promoted to resident. In 1735 he ended his contract with the VOC and returned via Cape de Goede Hoop, South Africa to the Netherlands. De Bucquoy gives various lively descriptions of the places and people he encounters, i.a. Maputo bay, Madagascar, Goa, Cape Goede Hoop and life aboard a pirate ship. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE CXXVI.
- Interleaved; owner's entry on first free endpaper; sl. foxed. Spine worn; worn along extremities.
= Rare.
- Partly sl. wormholed, sl. affecting title and text; a few quires loose(ning). Vellum soiled.
= Rare.
- Bookplate on upper pastedown; title-p. sl. dam. (loss of letters and closed tears); partly w. (restored) dam., mostly in blank margins (occas. in text/ images); doublures foxed/ sl. stained.
= Cf. Bonacini 1689; cat. Jammes 40; Cohen, Suppl. 233. In this edition of the work, the breasts of the mermaids are covered. The baroque masterpiece of the Parisian calligrapher and engraver Louis Senault, lavishly embellished with ornamental and historiated initials, landscape vignettes, figurated en-têtes, culs de lampe, subtitles within ornamental borders etc. "Senault endavoured to preserve in his engraved books the full flavour of a contemporary manuscript" (PMM 98).
AND 1 other: K. VON ECKARTSHAUSEN, Gott ist die reinste Liebe (Vienna, ±1800, engr. frontisp. and title, contemp. gilt red mor., a.e.g., slipcase, sm. 8vo).
- Occas. sl. foxed; bookplate on upper pastedown. Lacks backstrip; covers and corners rubbed.
- Sl. yellowed; plan w. sm. tear on fold; new endpapers. Binding trifle worn along extremities; spine-ends sl. chipped.
= Sabin 72259; Hill 1477; Cox 1752: "This is on of the earliest, and certainly the fullest, work that had hitherto been published on the Hudson Bay territory. The author mentions in his preface that he had been "six years in the countries adjoining to Hudson's Bay." The territory was not properly opened up until after 1763, when Canada passed from French into Birtish possession, and British adventurers from the great lakes began to penetrate the country." SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE CXXVIII.
- Sm. libr. stamp on first free endpaper. Otherwise a fine copy.
- Vol.5 two plates foxed. Wrappers occas. sl. foxed/ stained; vol.5 backwr. loose. The pen and ink drawing is laid down on mount with a little sketch attached to the leaf in the right margin (where a portion of the original drawing was previously torn off). Upper joint of box sl. dam. at foot of spine; upper joint and top of spine sl. rubbed. Otherwise fine.
= Copy of the deluxe edition with handcol. etchings. One of the drawings included in the lot is the sketch for the illustration printed in vol.8 with the title "The Omnibus Brutes-, q.s[?]. which are they?" The other leaf w. drawings on recto and verso is a sketch leaf w. num. small pencil sketches. The autograph letter is dated "[...] 1846" and is an invitation to "My Dear [...?] I purpose doing myself the pleasure of breakfasting with you to morrow mo at 8 oClock [signed]." SEE ILLUSTRATIONS PLATE CXXVII.
- Lacks 2 plates (Boru, &c upset in a jingle and Tapp in the Sherrif's Prison); (traces of) 2 bookplates on upper pastedown; occas. foxed. Binding rubbed.
= Abbey, Life 282 (first ed. 1821).
- Both vols. hinges sl. weak; vol. I (water?)stained in upper (blank) margin, occas. touching text/ image; vol. II occas. sl. foxed. Covers heavily rubbed; sl. worn along extremities, especially spine-ends; vol. II frontcover stained.
= Cats STCN 8; Mus. Catsianum 6.
- Extensive contemp. annots. on upper pastedown; a few lvs. lack a sm. portion of outer blank margin, not affecting text; partly sl. waterst. in lower outer corner, not touching text; lacks large portion of final leaf ("Korten inhoud"). Vellum soiled.
= Cats STCN 35; Mus. Catsianum 224. Rare ed.
- New endpapers; partly waterst. = Mus. Cats. 25.
- One leaf lacks sm. part; the first work sl. yellowed. Vellum sl. dry.
= Ad 1: Cats STCN 204; Mus. Catsianum 163. Ad 2: Cats STCN 43.
- Fold. title reattached and 1 div. title reattached; occas. sl. (vaguely) waterstained, mostly in blank margins.
= Mus. Catsianum p.5-6; Cats STCN 225. The fourth part consists of "Lof-sangh op het geestelick houwelick van Godes sone".