2685 - 3623 OLD and RARE BOOKS
- First vol. leaf *8 skilfully restored in blank section and last few lvs. waterst.; both vols. lvs. partly sl./ trifle browned. Both vols. letterpieces (partly) worn away; extremities of bindings rubbed; upper joints starting/ splitting.
= Kunst op schrift 586; Arntzen/ Rainwater H69 (eds. 1604 and 1618); Chamberlin 2018; Bibl. Belg. M105; Van Someren I,212. From the library of Maria van Huerne de Schiervelde de Puyenbeke-De Schietere De Lophem (1764-1804) with her letterpress bookplate on upper pastedowns. She was married to the Belgian merchant, collector and mecenas Aybert Jozef van Huerne de Puyenbeke. And from the library of the Antwerp alderman, historian and bibliophile Jan Baptist Verdussen III (1698-1773), with his bookpate (small oval engraving showing an emblematic scene of 2 storks with the device "Pietas homini tutissima virtus" (also the printer's device of the Verdussen family from Antwerp)) on all 4 pastedowns. His book collection was sold in 1776.
- Both vols. a few owner's annots.; occas. sl. browned/ foxed; vol.1 htitle w. tear (closed w. sellotape). Vellum sl. stained.
= Kunst op schrift 586; Arntzen/ Rainwater H69 (eds. 1604 and 1618); Chamberlin 2018; Bibl. Belg. M105; Van Someren I,212.
- Sl. yellowed/ foxed throughout; 1 plate loose. All plates w. contemp. captions in pen and ink identifying the portrayed.
= Kunst op schrift 586; Arntzen/ Rainwater H69 (eds. 1604 and 1618); Chamberlin 2018; Bibl. Belg. M105; Van Someren I,212.
- Lacks the portrait of the author; partly sl. waterst.; w. remnants of sl. later owner's entry (dated 1640) on title. Joints sl. rubbed. Otherwise a fine copy.
= The rare first edition of the main text of this famous book, the first book to be published in the Netherlands on the theory and history of art. Bibl. Belgica M103; Simoni M21; Arntzen/ Rainwater H69. For commercial reasons the publisher issued copies with and without the second part listed on the title-p. "'d'Uytlegghinghe op den Metamorphoseon pub. Ovidij Naso (...)". Our copy consists of the main work only.
- Occas. trifle yellowed (1x browned). Top of spine trifle frayed. Otherwise fine.
= French translation of Mengs' Hinterlassne Werke (publ. Halle, 1786), consisting of various chapters on artists, art theory and a chapter on art techniques.
- Text vol. occas. sl. stained/ dogeared; plates fine. Bindings sl. worn along extremities; 1 vol. backstrip dam./ loosening.
= Bierens de Haan 3759 (1st ed., 1789); cf. Kat. Orn. Berlin 4740.
- Occas. trifle foxed. Spine-ends worn.
= Kunst op schrift 1100 note. Rare. Provenance: the collection A.M. van den Broek, with his bookplate on upper pastedown.
- Lacks 3 of the 4 "Onderwijsplaatjens" (containing the smaller educational illustrations of proportions and examples of i.a. faces and limbs). Wrappers duststained and both wr. restored in outer margin.
= Rare artist's manual. Not in Kunst op Schrift.
- Contents complete but occas. yellowed (incl. plates); vol. 4 sl. dogeared. Bindings badly worn/ dam. Sold w.a.f.
= Including the often lacking fourth vol. published in 1769. Kunst op schrift 243-245; Arntzen/ Rainwater H129.
Hoet, G. Catalogus of naamlyst van schilderyen, met derzelver pryzen, zedert een langen reeks van jaaren zoo in Holland als op andere plaatzen verkogt. Benevens een verzameling van lysten van verscheyden nog in wezen zynde cabinetten. The Hague, P.G. van Baalen, 1752, vol. 1 (of 3), XII,614,(36)p., contemp. wr., spine gilt.
- Vol.1 only. Contents loosening; llibrary cancel stamp on frontwr. Wrappers duststained; backstrip dam.
- Contents occas. sl. fingersoiled in margins. Vellum duststained.
= Interesting work on i.a. the discontent of the burghers in South Africa with the misbehaviour and abuse of power by Governor Willem Adriaan van der Stel. Also contains an extensive account of the war in the interior of Bantam and of the expulsion of the French from Siam. Tiele 153; Landwehr VOC 293; Cordier, Bibliotheca Indosinica p.889; Mendelssohn I, p.146. Complete copies are rare. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XC.
- Lacks the 2 maps and 3 plates. Prelim. lvs. vaguely stained in lower margin. Joints starting; backstrip, edges and corners sl. worn.
- Lacks engr. title and one half of the fold. map; contents partly soiled in margins; a few fold. plates sl. dam.; first few leaves frayed and mouldy; final 34 leaves stained in lower right corner, affecting text of index; otherwise occas. sl. fingersoiled. Binding worn/ dam. at spine-ends and corner and covers rubbed. Sold w.a.f.
= Tiele 990 (note); cf. Rouffaer/ Muller I, p.55 (ed. 1775); Mendelssohn II, p.279; Landwehr VOC, 284 (note). Modernised edition (first published 1676) of Wouter Schouten's popular voyage to the Dutch East Indies, containing the same plates as the first edition, but some re-engraved. Howgego S66: "Schouten was an observant traveller who explored inland into the environs of nearly every port-of-call, sometimes by himself or with a small group of comrades. His narrative, full of anecdotes as well as information gleaned about countries he had not visited, became particularly popular with readers in the eighteenth century, when it was republished in no fewer than seven editions."
- All vols. w. new endpapers; all but 1 vol. w. bookplate on first free endpaper; occas. sl. foxed/ browned (affecting a few maps/ plates); vol. 1 map "Het westelijk deel van het eiland Ceram" torn with loss of right half; partly sl. wormholed (trifle affecting 4 maps/ plates); vol. 2 w. owner's entry and gluestain on title-p.; vol. 4a one view w. vertical tear professionally restored; portrait of M. DE HAAN loosely inserted. Bindings sl. chafed; backstrips sl. sunned. A good/ fine set, complete with all the plates conforming to the binder's instruction in the last volume.
= Landwehr, VOC 467; Tiele 1121; Alt Japan Katalog 1570; Cordier, Japonica 426-428; Cordier, Indosinica 927-930; Cat. NHSM I, 502; Mendelssohn IV, p.594. One of the most extensive works and the main old source on the Dutch East Indies with many documents, partly lost by now. Also containing important descriptions of i.a. Cape of Good Hope, China, Japan and Ceylon and two early voyages to Australia with interesting maps. For the description of the history of Amboina, Valentyn used the unpublished and lost manuscript "Amboinsch Dierboek" by Rumphius. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XCI.
- Fine large complete set (57x38 cm. (binding)) of Blaeu's two townbooks of the Low Countries, nowadays rarely on the market in this near mint condition, with very wide margins (56x35,5 cm. (leaf)) and in attractive uniform contemporary bindings. Condition: fine/ very fine, w. the following unobtrusive points: very few sm. wormholes; one leaf lacks sm. part of upper left corner in blank margin; vol.1: a few thumbstained spots; vol.2: ±25 leaves sl. dampstained in blank outer margin. Bindings have some minor defects and corners are sl. bumped as usual; nevertheless in fine condition.
= Koeman Bl 68B and Bl 69B: "This second volume also shows some minor amendments, compared with the former edition of the 'Stedenboek'." A monument of Dutch cartography, the "Townbooks" of Blaeu show the Netherlands and present day Belgium in their full splendour, depicting in the plates both the fortifications of the towns and cities as well as the conglomerates of their buildings in detailed plans. SEE ILLUSTRATIONS PLATE XC.
- Stripped copy: lacks the 2 engr. titles, all the maps, and several textp. Partly w. receding waterst. in lower margin; 1 quire loose. Vellum binding fine; lacks ties.
= The 10th vol. of Blaeu's Atlas Maior, concerning Asia. Includes i.a. the account of the Jesuit missionary Martino Martini (1614-1661) of the geography, history and customs of the Chinese Empire and its inhabitants.
- Lacks almost all maps; the title-p., plates and charts present are all doubled w. Japanese; title-p. soiled and w. a few sm. brown stains.
= The charts present in part 2 are: "Caarte Vande Reede ende Haven van Medenblick, hoe men die (comende zoo vant Wieringer als Vriessche vlac) beseijlen mogen (...)"; "Nieuwe beschrijvinghe van alle de Eylanden en Gaten der Zee, die geleghen syn langs de custen van Vrieslandt Groeningerlandt, Embderlandt etc. van Vlielandt af tot de Elve toe (...)". Cf. Koeman IV, M. Bl.15 (J) (2) and 20 (the chart "Nieuwe beschrijvinghe (...)" shows several variants compared to the same chart in our lot 5465 of this sale (see the section Dutch topography. Maps, plans and views).
- General title-page restored in lower left corner and dustsoiled; all(?) maps doubled w. Japanese; lacks one chart (Koeman M.Bl. 33-III, no.86); Koeman M.Bl. 33-III, no.58 is present in 2 copies (one copy restored in outer blank margin); no.83 some brown stains; no.85 small restoration to outer blank margin; no.87 restored in lower blank left corner and in right margin; no.88 cut sl. short in lower left margin (affecting image); no.89 restored in outer right margin (w. sm. loss of image). Bound somewhat tightly.
= Koeman M.Bl 33-III. Contains the following charts: Koeman, M.Bl.28, no.1, 57-85 and 87-89. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XCII.
- Nine maps w. colour offsetting/ dam. from pages formerly sticking together; 1 map w. 2 tears on vertical fold/ in inner (blank) margin (1x closed w. sellotape); 1 map sl. inkstained. Binding (sl.) worn along extremities; spine-ends and letterpiece dam.; frontcover acid-bitten.
= Extensive dedication by Maastricht garrison commander jhr. M.J.N. van der Maesen (1758-1823) to his nephew Paul Schaetzen on first blank.
- Some maps w. sl. wear in blank margin(s) (occas. strengthened in inner margin) or lower outer corner. Binding rubbed (w. loss of gilt on both covers); lacks ties. Good copy.
= Philips 4270; Sabin 13805; NDB III,295. With the worldmap (Shirley 586 w. ill.), the 4 continents (for America see Burden 360), 29 Europe maps, 7 of Asia and 2 of Africa. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XCII.