763 - 877 DUTCH HISTORY and TOPOGRAPHY
- First leaf browned. Portfolio worn.
= Architect Jan Molenschot participated in a designer contest for the Olympic stadion in Amsterdam, to be built for the 1928 Olympic Games. Molenschot did not win the contest, but his designs, photographed by Jos Goedknegt, were put on display in the Stedelijk Museum along with the other participants' designs in 1927-1928.
- Binding trifle scratched and dustsoiled.
= Facs. reprint of the ed. Amst., 1773.
Le Mirroir du Monde, ou, Epitome du Theatre. Ibid., idem, 1994, no pagination, num. col. maps, orig. hcl., obl 8vo.
= Facs. reprint of the ed. Amst., 1598
AND 7 others similar, almost all late 20th facs. reprints of 16th-18th cent. atlasses, i.a. of RIZZI ZANNONI, Atlas Geographique (ed. Paris 1762); ZAK-ATLAS VOOR DEN REIZIGER (...) (ed. Amst., ±1794) and Z. HEYNS, Den Nederlandtschen Landt-spiegel in Ryme gestelt (ed. Amst., 1599).
- The fold. map (Noord-Holland and Friesland) w. large tear along horizontal fold; 2 maps and 2 textlvs. w. (large) horizontal tear; all maps/ text lvs./ wr. w. dam. spots along vertical fold.
= Koeman III, Smu 1 A.
- The maps sl. stained/ foxed. Spine and corners chafed.
= Professional Papers of the Corps of Engineers of the United States Army No.22.
- Title underlined in red ink. Otherwise fine.
- Binding rubbed and stained; spine faded and w. paper ticket.
- Loose; sl. foxed; partly waterst. Wrappers soiled, loose and dam.
= Nice series of plates depicting the tombs of Willem van Oranje (2x, front and back), Hugo de Groot, Piet Hein, Maarten Tromp, Elisabeth van Marnix and Anthoni van Leeuwenhoek.
- Lacks the map, 2nd title-p. and final text leaf; foxed at the beginning and end. Binding worn; paper over boards partly loose(ning)/ lacking.
= Bodel Nijenhuis 3362. Very rare.
- Occas. sl. foxed. White stain on frontcover vol. 4; binding vol. 1 sl. stained and spine sunned.
= Nicolaas Pierson was president of the Central Bank of the Netherlands (1885-1891) and Dutch prime minister (1897-1901).
- Occas. sl. foxed; upper hinge broken. Backstrip loosening at top of spine; sl. worn along edges.
= Bodel Nijenhuis 2714.
Pars, A. Catti Aborigines Batavorum. Dat is: De Katten, De Voorouders der Batavieren, ofte de twee Katwijken, aan See en aan den Rijn. Met de Huisen te Britten en Sand. En van wegen de Naheid van Stoffe en Plaatsen, de Gedenkwaardigheden van het Dorp en Abdije van Rijnsburg. Leyden, J. du Vivie and I. Severinus, 1697, 1st ed., 64,(10),477,(1)p., engr. frontisp., armorial plate, 11 double-p./ fold. views and plates, a few text-engrs., contemp. calf, sm. 8vo.
- Lacks portrait of the author and free endpapers. Hinges weak (a few lvs. loosening); some plates sl. browned. Covers loose; binding sl. worn.
= Nijhoff/ Van Hattum 240.
AND 4 others (all in poor/ dam. bindings), incl. (P.J. AMESHOFF), Beschouwing van den tegenwoordigen toestand van Drenthe; in gemeenzame brieven (Amst., 1818, lithogr. map of Drenthe, contemp. wr.).
- One bifolium loose, otherwise a (very) fine copy. = Cf. Haitsma Mulier/ Van der Lem 155b.
- Sl. foxed. = F.M. 6137.
Beijer, J.C. Gedenkboek van Neerlands Watersnood in Februarij 1825. Tweede Stuk. The Hague, J. Immerzeel, 1826, 1 vol. (of 2), (4),433-807,(1)p., 2 fold. partially handcol. engr. maps, 1 fold. table, 4 fold. lithogr. plates by A. BOËNS, modern antique style gilt hleather.
- Without the 1st vol. (containing 1 plate); large portion cut from title-p. (w. loss of text).
= F.M. 6220. Rather early lithographed views of i.a. Scheveningen (2x) and Wolvega.
- Some lvs. sl. frayed; a few plates repaired w. tape (1x loose); occas. sl. foxed. Nevertheless a fine set.
- The map loose and w. some white stains. Frontcover loose; backstrip dam.
= Bierens de Haan 4364; Bodel Nijenhuis 1247.
- A few maps split on middle-fold; occas. maps loose(ning). Cloth sl. soiled; spine worn.
AND 2 fold. 20th cent. maps of Friesland.
- Covers sl. worn along extremities.
Elias, J.E. Het Geslacht Elias. De Geschiedenis van Een Amsterdamsche Regentenfamilie. The Hague, M. Nijhoff, 1937, XII,257p., plates, ills., orig. gilt clothbacked boards. - AND 8 others, i.a. P.M.H. WELKER, Urkunden und Aufstellungen zur Genealogie und Geschichte der familie Welcker (Numansdorp, 1907, plates, tables, orig. wr.); P.C. BLOYS VAN TRESLONG PRINS, Genealogische en heraldische gedenkwaardigheden in en uit de kerken der provincie Utrecht (Utr., 1919, plates, contemp. hcl.) and R.W.P. DE VRIES, Bibliothèque héraldique généalogique et topographique de feu le Chevalier J.F.L. Coenen van 's Gravesloot (Amst., 1918, (fold.) plates, orig. wr.).