
BOOKS IN DUTCH
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Dutch Bible Commentary by a
Controversial Scholar/Politician
(A HANDSOME SET). Hamelsveld, Ysbrand van. Korte aanmerkingen over het Oude & Nieuwe Testament voor ongeleerden. [with] De Apokryfe boeken. Amsteldam: Martinus de Bruijn, 1791–98. 8vo (22.7 cm, 8.9"). 9 vols. O.T.: I: [4], 388 pp. II: [4], 396 pp. III: [8], [429]–1011, [1] pp. IV: [4], 624 pp. V: [2], 582 pp. VI: [4], 442, [2], [443]–656, iv pp. Apocr.: [4], 456, [4], 342 pp. N.T.: I: [4], 134, [2], 135–187, [3], 189–282, [2], [283]–514 pp. II: viii, 489, [1] pp.
$2200.00
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Nine-volume set of Biblical commentary intended for laypeople rather than theologians, incorporating extensive quotations from both Testaments in Dutch. Van Hamelsveld, a Christian Hebraist, preacher, and professor of theology at Utrecht, suffered a period of unpopularity due to his political activism and association with the Patriot party, but following his death his reputation was rehabilitated. His translations of the Old and New Testaments from the original languages are well regarded, with Houtman taking particular note of the fluency and free nature of van Hamelsveld's Old Testament with respect to word choice and sentence structure.
This is the first edition of the Old Testament commentary and the second of the New (which was first published in 1789–90). An entire volume is dedicated to the Apocrypha; in the other volumes, each section has a separate title-page.
Scarce: OCLC locates only three U.S. holdings, one of which has since been deaccessioned.
Not in Darlow & Moule, but see under 3357. On van Hamelsveld, see: Houtman, Nederlandse Vertalingen van het Oude Testament, 25–26. Contemporary half mottled calf with speckled paper–covered sides, spines gilt extra with gilt-stamped leather title and volume labels; rubbed, paper starting to peel at a few edges, some spines with unobtrusive chips or a gilt-stamped decoration rubbed away, one spine with portion of leather (rather bigger than a “chip”) lost at head. Lower (closed) edges institutionally rubber-stamped, front pastedowns each with institutional bookplate. Page edges untrimmed. Waterstaining to upper inner portions throughout (a bit difficult to visualize the accident); otherwise, occasional minor spotting only. Vol. I of N.T. with back fly-leaf excised. Vol. I of O.T. with pencilled ownership inscription on front free endpaper, one leaf with short tear from outer margin not touching text, one blank intermediary leaf excised. Apocrypha with hole to one sectional title affecting one letter.
A sturdy set with a great deal of shelf appeal. (25843)
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Bible. N.T. Dutch. Verhulst. 1825. Het Nieuwe Testament van onzen heere Jesus Christus, vertaelt volgens de gemeyne Latynsche overzettinge ... Brussel: J.-B. Dupon, 1825. 12mo (17.2 cm, 6.75"). [6], 568 pp.
$400.00
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Reprinting of Verhulst’s Old Catholic edition of 1717, circulated by the British and Foreign Bible Society. The work is printed in double columns with typographic head- and tailpieces.
Darlow and Moule 3369. Contemporary diced calf, spine tooled in blind, with gilt-stamped leather title-label; edges and joints rubbed, sides with minor abrasions, spine sunned. Front pastedown with traces of a now-absent bookplate. Some light foxing, mostly confined to first few leaves. Pp. 5/6 and 7/8 bound in out of order. One leaf with short tear from upper margin, touching a few letters; one leaf with upper outer corner torn away, with loss of two letters. All edges marbled. (20401)
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In the DUTCH National Library NOT Reported Elsewhere
(Chinoiserie). Verhalen uit China. Met platen. Leiden: P.J. Trap (pr. by H.R. De Breuk), [ca. 182545]. 12mo (18.8 cm, 7.4"). vii, [1], 135 (lacking pp. 33/34 & 39/40), [1 (blank)] pp.; 5 col. plts.
$485.00
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Extremely scarce Dutch Orientalia. These short stories set in China are illustrated with five lovely, elaborately hand-colored lithographed plates including two scenes of childrenone in which they are blowing bubbles and one in which they are fishing out of a boat with a carved dragon prow. The first plate is very faintly marked "H.J. Backer," but the illustrations are otherwise unattributed.
No holdings of this book are listed by RLIN, OCLC, or NUC Pre-1956; the only other copy we were able to find is held by the Dutch national library.
Not in Brinkman. Contemporary cartonné binding covered in decorative printed paper, shown above right; spine showing a small undarkened area where label is now lacking. Front joint tender. Lacking pp. 33/34 and 39/40; some signatures loosening. Pages with a very few small spots, otherwise clean and pleasing. (4188)

Dutch Republicanism — For & Against
Court, Pieter de la. Interest van Holland, ofte, Gronden van Hollands-welvaren. Amsterdam: By Joan. Cyprianus vander Gracht, 1662. Small 8vo (15.5 cm; 6.125"). [8] ff., 267, [5] pp. [with bound at the end] Huygens, Constantijn. Den Herstelden Prins tot Stadt-houder ende Capiteyn Generaal vande Vereenighde Nederlanden, ten dienst ende luyster vande loffelijcke en de wel geformeerde Republijck vande Geunieerde Provincien, &c. tegens de boekjens onlangs uyt gegeven met den naem van Interest van Hollandt, ende stadt-houderlijcke regeringe in Hollandt ... Amsterdam: Voor Joan. Cyprianus vander Gracht, 1663. Small 8vo (15.5 cm; 6.125"). [16], 122, [4], [2 (blank)] pp.
$2750.00
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Court (1618–85) and his brother Johan (1622–60) were the sons of Protestant émigrés from Flanders who settled in Leiden around 1613. Both were political and economic theorists; during their lifetimes
Pieter was held to be more capable of the two. This work circulated in manuscript and was first published in Amsterdam in 1662 without the author's permission and with alterations and the addition of two important chapters and part of another by Johan de Wit. A later edition was published under the title Aanwysing der heilsame politike gronden en maximen van de republike van Holland en West-Vriesland, and that edition was translated into English as The true interest and political maxims of the republick of Holland and West-Friesland (London, 1702).
Interest van Holland is Pieter Court's most famous and important work. In this critical analysis of the economic success of the Dutch Republic he ascribes the rise of Holland to a combination of free competition and free (i.e., republican) government. It clearly was a republican manifesto, so on one side of the political spectrum it gained notoriety and infamy and on the other fame and honor. Abroad it was translated into German and English and was studied in order to learn how the Dutch had ascended to a position of prominence in the European and world economic and political theaters.
The Dictionary of Seventeenth and Eighteenth-Century Dutch Philosophers labels this work “the first unequivocal expression of republicanism in the Dutch Republic.”
There were at least five editions printed in 1662: three in Amsterdam (one 8vo, two 12mo) and two in Leiden (one 8vo, one 12mo), but with stop-press corrections resulting in STCN listing 12 editions/variants.
We believe this to be a true first edition. The STCN speculates that the printer cited on the title-page here, I.C. vander Gracht, was a pseudonym used by the Hackius firm of Leiden.
Alden and Landis succinctly summarize the
Americana content: “Includes refs [sic] to West Indies commerce, whale & cod fisheries, salt-trade, & Puritans in English colonies.”
Huygens (1596–87) was a Dutch Golden Age poet and composer, secretary to two Princes of Orange, and the father of the scientist Christiaan Huygens. Here he pens a rebuttal of Interest van Holland, defends the House of Orange, and seeks to rebut as many republican assertions as possible. This is the
sole edition of Herstelden Prins tot Stadt-houder.
Provenance: Frank Marshall Vanderhoof (American scholar, university librarian, private collector; 1919–2005).
Court: Goldsmiths'-Kress 1659.2; Alden & Landis, European Americana, 662/38; Knuttel 8652; Meulman 3925; STCN 063391201. Huygens: Knuttel 8806a; STCN 61687140. Contemporary vellum over boards. Waterstaining variously noticeable and never serious. A good solid copy. (35677)

A DUTCH Artist's Book
Made & Printed in NEW YORK
Grunberg, Arnon. Verzamelde visite kaartjes. New York: Kunst Editions, 1998. 12mo (18.5 cm; 7.5"). 2 loose leaves (half-title, title) and three booklets).
$400.00
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Arnon Yasha Yves Grunberg (b. 1971) is a Dutch writer, investigative reporter, radio and television personality, and occasional artist, as specifically exemplified by this artist book. It was printed in only 16 copies, 15 of which are signed by Grunberg and were for sale.
The work consists of three booklets with small, business-sized cards pasted one or two to a page, printed on paper or wood, with different designs, different messages, and different imagery; all are facetious, e.g., Grunberg, Magician for Children; Grunberg, Owner of Whore C.; Grunberg, Owner of Grunberg Catering; etc.
Searches of WorldCat, COPAC, and KVK locate
only one copy worldwide (in the National Library of the Netherlands).
Original red clamshell box with spine label in silver metal holder; author, title, and imprint date on handmade paper adhered to front board. All contents in very good condition. (34731)
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Important
MENNONITE Confession
Ris, Cornelis. De geloofsleere der waare Mennoniten of Doopsgezinden. Hoorn: T. Tjallingius, 1766. 4to (21 cm, 8.25"). [2], xxxiv, xviii, [2], 194 pp.
$1500.00
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First edition: Mennonite articles of faith as expressed by prominent preacher Ris (1717–90), in an attempt to reconcile liberal and orthodox views. This work was deeply influential in the American Mennonite tradition, though not as widely adopted in the Netherlands. The present example is an uncut copy.
Provenance: The title-page verso bears a limitation statement “De Auteur erkent geene exemplaren voor echt, dan die dus, eigenhandig, door hem zelf, getekend zyn,”
signed, “C. Ris.” Title-page recto has signature of American scholar and collector Howard Osgood.
Springer-Klassen 5102. Later limp speckled paper wrappers, spine reinforced with cloth tape, in buckram-covered slipcase with author and date gilt-stamped on spine, remnants of shelving label. Front and back free endpapers partially excised. Title-page institutionally pressure-stamped, with early inked ownership inscription between two lines of title. Lightly cockled, outer corners curled; occasional light foxing, more pronounced towards back of volume. (31093)
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Polyglot Picture-Books for
Dutch Children
[Seidel, Heinrich]. Eenige voorstellingen van natuur– en kunstvoorwerpen; verrijkt met ophelderingen en toepassingen, ten dienste en naar de vatbaarheid der jeugd, in poëzij en proza. Met platen. Amsterdam: F. Kaal, [1826]. 16mo (11.8 cm, 4.64"). 2 vols. I: vi, 110, [2 (blank)] pp.; 10 col. plts. II: [4],117, [1] pp.; 9 col. plts.
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Scarce Dutch edition of Seidel's Neuer Orbis Pictus, a work inspired by the Orbis Sensualium Pictus published by Comenius in 1658: the earliest widely used illustrated textbook for children. This updated version
features 19 excellently hand-colored plates, each plate offering four or five vocabulary words, with the captions given in four languages, e.g. “Huis / La maison / The house / Das Haus,” with the Dutch and German set in blackletter, French in italics, and English in roman, while the main body of Dutch text is set in roman. Topics described and illustrated in the two volumes include instruments, conveyances (stage-coach, sledge), clothing, household items, animals, etc.
red A search of OCLC finds
only one reported U.S. institutional holding (Princeton), with all other listed copies in the Netherlands.
Provenance: From the children's book collection of Albert A. Howard, small booklabels (“AHA”) at rear.
Publisher's printed tan paper–covered boards, volumes now housed in tan cloth–covered clamshell case with printed paper title-label (and pencilled author annotation added). Paper bindings variably darkened but entirely strong, edges and extremities lightly rubbed; free endpapers not present in either volume and possibly never present. One leaf in vol. I with small chip to upper edge; otherwise, text virtually pristine, with mostly unopened and pages and plates clean.
A beautiful, engaging production and a fine copy of it. (41236)

The First Anglo-Dutch War, New Amsterdam, Prisoner Exchanges, & Much More
United Provinces of the Netherlands. Verbael gehouden door de Heeren H. van Beverningk, W. Nieupoort, J. van de Perre, en A.P. Jongestal, als gedeputeerden ... van de heeren Staeten generael der Vereenigde Nederlanden, aen de republyck van Engelandt. Gravenhage: By Hendrick Scheurleer, 1725. 4to (25.5 cm; 10"). xx, 416, 415–518, 517–716 pp.
$725.00
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We have here the minutes of negotiations between Dutch ambassadors and the English Republic regarding the First Anglo-Dutch War, various commercial disputes, and matters in North America, 1653–54. The documents are chiefly in Dutch, but some are in English, French, or Latin; for example pp. 198–214 contain a draft in English followed by one in Latin “of Articles of Union, Peace and Confederation to be made between the Common-Wealth of England and the States General of the United-Province of the Neitherlands [sic].”
Muller notes that this account “chiefly” concerns New-Netherland and that “it contains all the speeches and reports”; Asher adds that the information here is “not to be found in the letters of the Pensionary J. de Witt and other ministers.”
Provenance: 20th-century bookplate of J.W. Six; later in the collection of Frank Marshall Vanderhoof (American scholar, university librarian, private collector; 1919–2005).
Alden & Landis, European Americana, 725/147; Asher, Dutch books and pamphlets, 335; Sabin 98926; Frederik Muller, America (1872 catalogue), 1100. Contemporary Dutch vellum over boards, round spine, raised bands, blind rules on covers, center cartouche blind-embossed. The usual foxing and browning found in so many copies. Solid, attractive, and a very good copy. (35777)

A Dutch Printer's Manual
Set Forth & CONSIDERED
Wardenaar, David. Zetten en drukken in de achttiende eeuw: David Wardenaar's Beschrijving der Boekdrukkunst (1801). Haarlem: Joh. Enschede en Zonen, 1982. 8vo. 610 pp., plts.
$65.00
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Scholarly printing, with much apparatus, of the oldest known Dutch printer's manual — a manuscript dated 1801; with a good summary in English at the end, and a detailed index.
Publisher's cloth with dust-jacket; jacket with a bit of light smudging and a few interior leaves with line creasing, probably occurring in production and unaccompanied by soil. A very good copy. (27614)
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Scarce Treatise: The Reformation in the
Netherlands
Water, Jona Willem te. Kort verhaal der Reformatie van Zeeland in de zestiende eeuwe; benevens eenige verhandelingen dienende tot ophelderinge van de historie der kerk-hervorminge aldaar ... Middelburg: Pieter Gillissen, 1776. 8vo (20.9 cm, 8.25"). [6], xviii, 117, [11] pp.
$875.00
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First edition of this history of the Dutch Reformed Church, written by a clergyman and professor at Leiden University. The title-page is printed in red and black.
Provenance: Covers gilt-stamped with the device of Francis Egerton, 1st Earl of Ellesmere.
Binding: Contemporary calf framed in gilt triple fillets and blind roll, rebacked preserving original spine gilt extra with gilt-stamped leather title-label; covers gilt-stamped with supra-libros as above. All edges marbled.
Uncommon: OCLC and NUC Pre-1956 find only six U.S. locations.
Bound as above; spine leather with small chips and cracks, sides with small unobtrusive areas of rubbing and light discoloration. Binding overall solid and still
attractive; interior clean and nice. (25320)
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A Glimpse of Public Policy from the
Dutch Golden Age
Witt, Johan de. Resolutien der heeren Staten van Hollandt ende West-Vriesland van consideratie, ende oock voor de toekomende tyden dienende, genomen zedert den aenvangh der bedieninge van den Heer Johan de Witt ... beginnende met den tweeden Augusti 1653. ende eyndigende met den negentiende December 1668. Utrecht: Willem vande Water, 1706. 4to (25.3 cm; 10"). [2] ff., 635, 638–828, [33] pp.
$550.00
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Johan de Witt was one of Europe's greatest statesmen of the 17th century: Appointed the “councillor pensionary” (i.e., the political leader) of Holland (1653–72), he successfully led the United Provinces in the First and Second Anglo-Dutch wars (1652–54, 1665–67) while at the same time effectively consolidating the country's position as a formidable commercial and naval power.
This text with a sizable subject index records de Witt's public resolutions from 2 August 1653 to 19 December 1668 on a variety of topics, including the price of gold, the East India Company, and England.
In the dedication, vande Water, the printer of this work, notes that he is producing it so that the documents will not be lost to the future.
Evidence of Readership: Notes referring to specific pages written on front free endpaper and a newspaper clipping dated 25 April 1926 laid in text.
STCN 216098602. Speckled calf, gilt spine with stamped and lettered compartments, all edges speckled red; top of spine artfully repaired, joints strengthened, gently rubbed. A few gatherings age-toned and one section at rear with band of very light waterstaining to foremargin; small holes in foremargin of two leaves, possibly created during manufacture, small tear to bottom margin of another.
A well-organized look at what was considered important during the middle of the Dutch Golden Age. (35705)

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