2685 - 3623 OLD and RARE BOOKS
- A few textleaves at the beginning misbound; partly (mostly sl.) waterstained in lower right corner of maps and textpages..
= Koeman, Col 5. Second Dutch edition (first published in 1635), with the text enlarged. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XCIII.
- Maps exceptionally good/ fine; first endpapers, title, table of contents and first 3 worldmaps w. brown stains in upper blank margin; a few maps w. tiny tear along middle fold. Binding dam.
= Koeman II: p.50, C: "With atlases of this category, we can no longer speak of a regularly produced edition. Copies with 100, 200, up to 600 maps of various composition are known (...) Messrs. Covens & Mortier collected hundreds of different maps from various publishers to bundle them up in atlases of a diversified composition. Their 'Nieuwe atlas' was often assembled by order of the collector. The register was always handwritten. The title-p. was never dated. Among the names of the publishers of these maps are the Netherlanders: P. Schenk, G. Valk, H. de Leth, F. de Wit, et al. and foreign map-makers including Homann and d'Anville, The atlases belonging to this category were sold by Covens & Mortier during 1730-1794 and even later by their successors." Contents in order of appearance: Mappemonde (fold. map by J. CONDET after G. DELISLE, Covens & Mortier, ±1730); Hemisphere Oriental/ Hemisphere Occidental/ L'Hemisphere Septentrional/ L'Hemisphere Meridional (4 maps by (J. CONDET after) G. DELISLE , Covens & Mortier and sons, 1720-1800); Carte d'Europe (Covens & Mortier and sons, 1817); Les Isles Britanniques (map by G. DELISLE, Covens & Mortier, ±1730); Regni Angliae et Walliae Principatus Tabula (Covens & Mortier, ±1740); Exactissima Regni Scotiae Tabula/ Hiberniae Regnum (2 maps, N. Visscher/ P. Schenk, 1700); Carte des Courons du Nord/ Seconde Carte des Courons du Nord/ Carte du Royaume de Danemarc/ Carte de Moscovie/ Partie Meridionale de Moscovie/ Carte de France/ Carte de Picardie Septentrionale/ Partie Meridionale de Picardie/ Carte de la Champagne/ Partie Meridionale de Champagne/ Carte de Normandie (11 (1x fold.) maps by G. DELISLE, Covens & Mortier, ±1730); Duché et Gouvernement General de Bretagne (F. de Wit, ±1700); Gouvernement general de l'Isle de France (F. de Wit/ Covens & Mortier, ±1730); Carte de la Beauce du Gatinois/ Carte particuliere d'Anjouet de Touraine/ Carte des Provinces du Maine et du Perche (3 (2x fold.) maps by G. DELISLE, Covens & Mortier, ±1730); Le Gouvernement general de Languedoc (map by N. SANSON, Covens & Mortier, ±1720); Partie Orientale du Gouvernement General de Languedoc (Covens & Mortier, 1745); Partie Septentrionale du Duche de Bourgogne/ Partie Meridionale du Duche de Bourgogne (2 maps by G. DELISLE, Covens & Mortier, ±1730); La Franche comté divisée en Trois grands Balliages (in 2 parts, H. Ialliot, 1695); Le Gouvernement General de Guienne et Gascogne (Covens & Mortier, ±1740), Le Gouvernement General du Dauphiné (F. de Wit, Covens & Mortier, ±1750); Carte de Provence (map by G. DELISLE, Covens & Mortier, ±1730); Nieuwe Algemene Kaart der Verenigde Nederlanden (fold. map by J.L. VAN BEEK en G. KONSÉ, Mortier, Covens en zoon, 1814); Nova Imperii Germanici (map by G. DELISLE, Covens & Mortier, ±1730); Marchionatus Brandenburgi et Ducatus Pomeraniae (F. de Wit, Covens & Mortier, ±1750); Partie Meridionale du Cercle de Haute Saxe (Covens & Mortier, ±1760); Circulus Saxoniae (F. de Wit, Covens & Mortier, ±1750); Le Cercle de Westphalie (H. Ialliot, 1695); Partie Orientale du Cercle de Franconie/ L'electorat de Mayence (2 maps by I. CONDET, Covens & Mortier, ±1730); Partie Septentrionale de la Souabe/ Partie Meridionale de la Souabe/ Le Cours du Rhin au dessus de Strassbourg/ Le Cours du Rhin depuis Strassbourg/ Le Cours du Rhin depuis Worms (5 maps by G. DELISLE, Covens & Mortier, ±1730); Le Cercle de Baviere (map by I. CONDET, Covens & Mortier, 1745); Circuli Austriaci (F. de Wit, Covens & Mortier, ±1720); Ducatus Carintiae et Carniolae/ Circuli Austriaci (...) Tirolis (2 maps, F. de Wit, Covens & Mortier, ±1720); Mappa Totius Regni Bohemiae (Covens & Mortier, ±1745); Sups. et inferioris Ducatus Silesiae/ Carte Generale du Marquisat de Moravie/ Le Marquisat de Haute Lusace/ Le Marquisat de Basse Lusace (4 maps, Covens & Mortier, 1741); Novae Helvetiae (map by G. DELISLE, Covens & Mortier, ±1730); Regni Prussiae et Prussiae Polonicae (F. de Wit, Covens & Mortier, ±1720);
La Pologne (map by G. DELISLE, Covens & Mortier, ±1730); Novissima Regnorum Portugalliae et Algarbiae (F. de Wit, Covens & Mortier, ±1720); Nova Regni Hispaniae/ Nova Italiae Descriptio (2 maps by G. DELISLE, Covens & Mortier, ±1720); Dominii Veneti in Italia (fold. map, F. de Wit, Covens & Mortier, ±1720); Estats de l'Eglise et de Toscane (in 2 parts, Covens & Mortier, ±1720); Le Royaume de Naples/ Partie Meridionale du Royaume de Naples (2 maps, Covens & Mortier, ±1720); Carte de l'Isle et Royaume de Sicile (map by G. DELISLE, Covens & Mortier, ±1730); Carte de l'Isle et Royaume de Sicile (map by G. DELISLE, Covens & Mortier, ±1730); Insula Corsica (Covens & Mortier, ±1720); Carte nouvelle de l'Isle et Royaume de Sardagne (map by N. SANSON, Covens & Mortier, ±1710); Le Royaume de Hongrie/ Carte Particuliere de la Hongrie/ Accurata Totius Archipelagi et Graeciae Universae Tabula (3 maps by G. DELISLE, Covens & Mortier, ±1730); Carte d'Asie (Covens & Mortier, ±1745); Carte de la Turquie de l'Arabie et de la Perse/ Carte de Perse (2 maps by G. DELISLE, Covens & Mortier, ±1730); Carte d'une Partie des Indes Orientales/ Carte d'une Partie de la Chine (2 maps by I. CONDET, Covens & Mortier, ±1745); Magnae Tartariae Tabula/ Carte d'Afrique/ Carte de la Barbarie de la Nigritie de la Guinée/ Carte de l'Egypte de la Nubie del' Abbissinie/ Carte du Congo et du Pays des Cafres (5 maps by G. DELISLE, Covens & Mortier, ±1730); Algemeene kaart van de Colonie de Kaap de Goede Hoop (fold map by F. VON BOUCHENROEDER, Covens & Mortier en Zoon, ±1800); Carte d'Amerique (map by I. CONDET, Covens & Mortier and sons, ±1800); L'Amerique Septentrionale (Covens & Mortier, 1757); Carte Generale des Treize Etats Unis de l'Amerique Septentrionale (Covens & Mortier and sons, ±1800); L'Amerique Meridionale (fold. map, Covens & Mortier, 1757); Carte de la Terre Ferme du Perou, du Bresil et du Pays des Amazones/ Carte du Paraguay, du Chile, du Detroit de Magellan (2 maps by G. DELISLE, Covens & Mortier, ±1730) and Carte Generale de la Polijnesie Australe (Covens & Mortier and sons, 1808). SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XCIII.
- Title-p. browned; occas. (mostly sl.) foxed. = Rare. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XCIV.
- Final map splitting on one fold; several maps strengthened on fold. Backstrip rubbed.
= Koeman II, Lat 1a, note. Early edition (first published in 1734), frequently reprinted throughout the 18th century.
- Contents fine. Paper over covers sl. worn.
= Koeman I, Baa2. All maps bear the annotation: "A Deventer chez Jean de Lat et Almelo chez Jacob Keizer". SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XCIV.
- Stripped copy: lacks engr. title and all the maps; text complete. Partly sl. mouldy/ stained (1 leaf heavily brown stained); a few lvs. sl. creased. Binding worn/ dam.
= Phillips 601. Koeman IV, Ren 3.
Wytfliet, C. (Histoire universelle des Indes occidentales et orientales, et de la conversion des Indiens). Douai, F. Fabri, 1611, 3rd French ed., 3 parts in 1 vol., (6),108,(8); (10),66; 54,(4)p., 2 engr. titles, contemp. vellum, 4to.
- Stripped copy: lacks all the maps and engr. title of first part; text complete. Pastedowns detached and w. tickets; partly sl. wormholed/ waterst. in lower margin. Vellum sl. wrinkled; lacks portion of frontcover.
= Third French edition of the first atlas of the Americas (orig. Latin ed. Leuven, 1597). Also includes G.A. MAGINI's descriptions of the Indies and Japan. Phillips 4459.
- Lacks the printed index-leaf (index supplied in contemp. manuscr.); one map vaguely mould-stained ("Rhynland"). Backstrip professionally restored. Maps in (very) fine condition and colouring.
= Koeman, Tir 4. Fine and complete world atlas, with many unusual, detailed maps, "excellent in style and exactness" (Koeman). The printed title still with "1744", from earlier editions of the atlas, containing 50 to 100 maps only. Contents: 1 worldmap in 2 hemispheres and 3 other (partial) worldmaps; 5 continents (2x diff. Africa); 34x Europe (incl. fine plans w. surroundings of London, Paris and Creveld); 36x The Netherlands; 13x Asia (incl. fine maps of i.a. Ceylon, India and Japan); 3x Africa; 14x America (incl. nice plans w. surroundings of New Orleans and Quebec, of the island Martinique, of the Caribbean). SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XCV.
- Occas. sl. waterstained in blank margins. Otherwise fine.
- First ±220p. of vol.1 waterstained in upper half; vol. 2 (sl.) browned and/ or foxed along margins.
= Rare edition of John Callander's Terra Australis Cognita (first publ. Edinb., 1766-1768). Cf. Sabin 10053; Hill 240. This edition contains the extracts of forty-one travel journals, partly not published in English before and includes the voyages of i.a. Hawkins, Spilbergen, Le Hermite, Pelsaert, Narborough, Dampier, Vlaming, Frezier, Roggewein, Anson, Ulloa and Byron.
- Several maps with reduced blank margins and partly cut to/ just inside) the plate mark (probably due to the fact that the were taken from variously sized copies and rebound or because of frail blank margins). One map (no.VII) yellowed in lower margin in the longitude strip, but not affecting the map; tear of 4,7 cm. in lower margin of map no.VIII (affecting the blank section of the map); map no.XI w. tear at top end of two folds (3,5 and 6,5 cm.); a few maps (sl.) creased; most maps and all botanical plates have a vague false central vertical fold. Nevertheless a good/ fine copy with the large General Map in fine condition. Corners (sl.) bumped.
= Hill 614; Kroepelien 438; Nissen BBI 673; Ferguson 576; Tooley, Mapping of Australia, pp.77-79; cf. Wantrup 67. This copy of Flinders' Atlas consist of several different editions of the maps: all maps except no. 5, 7, 8, 9 and 12 have the stamp of the Hydrographical Office (indicating later editions). And the following maps are also later emended editions of the the original maps: map I (General Chart of Terra Australis), publ. in 1829; map X publ. w. additions to 1826, map XI publ. in 1824 and map XIII publ. in 1824. The importance of Flinders' A Voyage to Terra Australis cannot be overstated. His circumnavigation of Australia and the surveying that he did over a period of 9 years resulted in very detailed charts of the (entire) coast of Australia, which were used for many years after they were first issued. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XCV.
- Fold. plan w. large horizontal tear and doubled w. cloth; lacks the binder's directions, but with the often lacking "List of the Encouragers of this Work" (here bound directly after the erratum page) and with the rare blank leaf bound at the end of "An Account of the Origin of Sliding Keels" (which was intended to be replaced by the list of subscribers which grew steadily during the printing process); several scattered libr. perforation stamps on textp.; plates foxed and/ or waterstained (Cockatoo plate stained); most textp. duststained and or foxed.
= With vague signature of possibly Alex. McLeay[?] (New South Wales colonial secretary). Ferguson, I, 375; Wantrup p.149ff.: "(...) Grant was the first navigator to pass through Bass Strait from the West and he discovered the Victorian coastline west of Bass's discoveries of 1797 and 1798. (...) In June and July of 1801 Grant and the Lieutenant-Governor, William Paterson, explored the Hunter River in the Lady Nelson. (...) Shortly after he returned from this trip Grant requested that he be returned to England. Governor King approved his application and Grant departed from the colony on 9 November 1801, arriving back in England in April 1802. The following year he published an account of his voyage which included the first chart of the newly discovered Victorian coast." SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXXXIX.
- Trifle yellowed. Otherwise fine.
= Extremely rare first (and only?) Dutch translation of John Oxley's Journals of two expeditions into the interior of New South Wales ... 1817-1818 (first publ. London, 1820). Ferguson 835; cf. Wantrup, p.180-184: "(...) "the foundation work in the field of Australian inland exploration and the first detailed description of the interior of New South Wales." SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XCVI.
- Fine copy.
AND a sl. incomplete copy in mediocre condition of D. HEINSIUS, Lof-sanck Van Jesus Christus den eenigen ende eeuwigen Sone Godes: Ende zyne andere Nederduytse Poemata (Amst., 1650, engr. ills., 19th cent. hcl. Lacks 2 leaves; soiled).
- First few quires of first part trifle dampstained in lower corner. Corners sl. rubbed.
= Rare. Remarkable binding. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XCVI.
- Plates and 3 textlvs. repaired/ margins strengthened with tape; 1 plate left margin dam. w. loss of sm. portion of the image; last part unobtrusively wormholed in blank margin. Rebound w. use of orig. calf.
- Backcover loose.
= On the so called "Brest Affair", in which the Dutch States General failed to send a flotilla to the French naval base in Brest, a scandal which was exploited by the patriot faction. Knuttel 20368.
Pleydoye in der zaake van G.T. van Paddenburg, Boekverkoper en Boekdrukker te Utrecht (...). Utr., G.T. van Paddenburg, 1783, (8),178p., contemp. hcalf w. mor. letterpiece. - BOUND WITH: Grondig en volledig Register over de ses eerste deelen van de Post van den Neder-Rhijn. Ibid., idem, 1786, 312p.
= Concerning the patriot periodical De Post van den Neder-Rhijn, published by G.T. van Paddenburg.
- Portion of title-p. and htitle w. some sl. brown offsetting caused by formerly inserted piece of paper. Wrappers sl. worn.
= Scheepers II, 1001 ("Satirisch pamflet tegen de Oranjepartij"); Knuttel 21927. Rare.
= Collection of official pieces on Johan Derk van der Capellen, the author of the famous anti-Orangist Aan het Volk van Nederland (1781), compiled by his friend and ally François Adriaan van der Kemp.
(Dumont-Pigalle, P.A.). Het gedrag van Jonkheer A.P. van der Capellen, Colonel by de Cavallerie ten dienste van de Republicq der Vereenigde Nederlanden (...) Aan het Publicq door Hem selve opengelegt. The Hague, C. Plaat, 1784, 2nd ed., VIII,128p., contemp. wr.
- Wrappers worn; spine-ends dam.
= A relative of Johan Derk and high ranking officer, who fell into disfavour with Stadtholder Willem V. Knuttel 20817. Both rare works.
AND 1 other: H.G.R DE MIRBEAU, Aux Bataves sur le Stathoudérat ("A Londres", 1788, contemp. limp boards. Knuttel 21757).
- Lacks the second vol. and 2 portraits. Upper hinge weak; a few lvs. frayed; sl. waterstained throughout in (mostly) blank margins; sm. owner's entry on first free endpaper.
= De Buck 2530; Haitsma Mulier/ Van der Lem 35f.
- Vol. 2 dampstained towards the end; lower endpaper and final few leaves dam.; lower hinge split(ting); first 2 vols. w. bookplate on first free endpaper and one letterpiece lacking; all vols. covers scuffed; foot of spine of vol. 1 worn; vol. 3 lower pastedown loose and lacks both letterpieces.