Verlag: Balthazar Lakeman, Amsterdam, 1730
Anbieter: Antiquariaat Meuzelaar, Heusden, NB, Niederlande
Contemporary Full Leather. Zustand: 8 (1-10). 6 volumes (of 9) of a scientific periodical, each volume contains 6 months of the bimonthly appeared periodical, so these volumes contain the years1719 to 1721. Each part contains an engraved title. The volumes are illustrated with 36 folding plates and maps numbered from 1 to 36. Place Printed: Amsterdam Part 1: 4 Blank pages / 1 NNP / 1 Blank pages / 10 NNP / 552 Pages / 1 Blank pages / 8 NNP / 4 Blank pages / 4 Folding Plates / 1 Folding maps Part 2: 4 Blank pages / 1 Blank pages / 564 Pages / 8 NNP / 4 Blank pages / 1 Folding maps / 4 Folding Plates Part 3: 4 Blank pages / 1 Blank pages / 4 NNP / 562 Pages / 6 NNP / 4 Blank pages / 1 Engraved Plates / 7 Folding Plates Part 4: 4 Blank pages / 1 Blank pages / 2 NNP / 570 Pages / 6 NNP / 4 Blank pages / 1 Folding maps / 1 Engraved Plates / 3 Folding Plates Part 5: 1 Blank pages / 570 Pages / 4 NNP / 5 Blank pages / 10 Folding Plates Part 6: 4 Blank pages / 1 Blank pages / 12 NNP / 563 Pages / 6 NNP / 4 Blank pages / 5 Folding Plates There are 6 extra pictures availabe on request! Height (cm): 15,7 Width (cm): 10,7 Thickness (cm): 22,5 Weight (kg): 2,272.
Anbieter: Celler Versandantiquariat, Eicklingen, Deutschland
Verbandsmitglied: GIAQ
Hendrik Strik, Amsterdam, 1720/1721. 570 S. mit 4 (davon 3 gefalteten) Kupferstichtafeln, original Leder mit goldgeprägtem Rücken und 5 Schmuckbünden (gerin gestossen/Exlibris auf Vorsatz entfernt)--- - sehr gutes Exemplar - 466 Gramm.
Anbieter: Fahrenheit 451 Antiquarian Booksellers, Leiden, Niederlande
Erstausgabe
Amsterdam, Hendrik Strik; Zacharia Moelé and Johannes de Ruiter; Balthasar Lakeman, 1719-1732, 21 parts in 9 volumes (complete), 8 identical engraved allegorical frontispieces (vols. 1-8), different woodcut vignettes on the title-pages and 49 numbered engraved plates (including also 4 maps: Baltic sea, Arabia, Caucasus region, Holy Land) with illustrations (i.a. by Jan Wandelaar), all but one folding, contemporary uniform vellum, manuscript title on the spines, octavo (16,8 x 11 cm.). = Rare complete set in first edition, uniformly bound in contemporary vellum. Willem van Ranouw (1670-1723) was a Dutch physician who started to publish this periodical to provide Dutch craftsmen an overview of texts that were published worldwide on innovations and discoveries so that they could benefit from that information. It was published in bi-monthly instalments, resulting in 21 parts, usually bound together in 8 volumes and an index. Ranouw translated these texts himself and commissioned engravers to illustrated the texts. Some chapters include mining technology, jewelry, diamonds, gold, sugar cane, natural history (shells, minerals, plants, insects, snakes), cocoa, astronomy, geology, agriculture, botany, horticulture, but also on selected biblical knowledge, human reproduction, tea, salt, indigo, quinine, places of interest (such as Spitsbergen or the Slave-Coast), etc. Condition: all volumes more or less (faintly) waterstained (vols.1-4 slightly worse); vol.1 a few annotations in pen; vol.4 1 map with tear; index-vol. loose in binding.
Anbieter: ASHER Rare Books, T Goy Houten, Niederlande
[16], 176, [2], 552, [8]; [4], 564, [8]; [8], 562, [6]; 570, [6]; 570; [9]; [8], 176, [2], 191-380, [2], 563, [6]; [8], 183, [1], 1-192, 1-192, [8]; [16], 176, 1-191, [1], [20], 1-151, [1]; [12], 690 pp.Complete set of a rare and interesting 9-volume scientific periodical devoted to the latest developments in all sciences, including their practical applications in the various crafts and professions. It appeared in bimonthly parts that were combined in 8 volumes and an index, totalling 21 parts. The Dutch physician Willem van Ranouw (1670-1723) initiated the project to make a selection of the most interesting and important recent foreign scientific texts available for Dutch craftsmen, who would benefit from the practical application of new scientific discoveries. Ranouw translated these texts himself and sometimes added some of his own writing.Several folding engraved plates illustrate all kinds of machines, crafts and natural history specimens. One folding plate depicts a workshop where gold wire is made (the only plate that is signed: Jan Wandelaar), multiple plates show mining technology. Other plates show sugar cane, several shells, plants and insects. A long part describes and illustrates the production of sugar. Some of the other subjects discussed include cacao, tea, quinine, indigo, astronomy, geology, amber, coral, minerals, horticulture and much more. The 4 folding maps show the Caucasus, the Baltic Sea, the Arabian Peninsula (including Bahrain) and the Holy Land.The first volume of the present set is a curious edition, not listed in the STCN: the title-page calls it the "second edition", with imprint: Amsterdam, Balthasar Lakeman, 1730. The other eight volumes (2-9) are first editions. Some repaired tears in plates and maps, a crack in the spine of volume 1 and volume 9 (index) rebacked. Otherwise in very good condition.l Cobres, I, p. 30; Delprat, Ned. geneesk. tijdschriften, pp. 18-21; Encyclopedie Nederlandstalige tijdschriften (www.ent1815.nl); H. Beukers, "De tijdschriften van Willem van Ranouw", in: Nederlandsch tijdschrift voor geneeskunde 125 (1981), pp. 1613-1617; not in Blake; Nissen; Pritzel; for the author: C.W. Schoneveld, 't Word grooter plas: maar niet zo 't was: Nederlandse beschouwingen over vertalen 1670-1760, in: Vertaalhistorie, 3 (1992).