Search Results: Authors starting with N from Antiquariaat FORUM BV

[4], 28 pp.Rare pamphlet, only 2 copies in NCC (no copy in the Royal Library, The Hague), comprising Naeranus' justification of his accusations against the remonstrant Jan Waarts. Naeranus published the pamphlet with only his initials "J.N." on the title-page. The learned author Johannes Naeranus (1608-1679) became remonstrant preacher in Oudewetering, in 1652. There, on his instigation, a special school for remonstrant preachers was founded in 1669. Naeranus became rector of the school and he taught Greek, Latin, philosophy and history. The author is also known for his biography and genealogy of Johan van Oldenbarnevelt (first published in 1670). His album amicorum is preserved at the Royal Library in The Hague.Good copy.l Knuttel 7784; Tiele 4495. On the author: Tideman, De Remonstrantsche Broederschap (1847), p. 21-23 and 162.

[5] ll. plus 153 engraved prints; [1], [3 blank], 595 [= 593], [5] pp.Natalis’s famous print series for the gospels, depicting the life of Christ in an extensive series of 153 numbered large and detailed gospel illustrations , here bound together with his additional commentary to this work, here both in their first editions. The engravings, showing the life, death and resurrection of Christ, were made by some of the best Flemish engravers, including the Wierix brothers at Antwerp, Jan II and Adriaen Collaert, Charles de Mallery, after drawings by the Italian painter Bernardo Passari and a few after Maarten de Vos.The present famous print series of the life of Christ soon became a highly important work for Jesuit missionaries and, moreover, a masterpiece of Flemish engraving at the end of the 16th century, engraved by some of the best Flemish engravers of its time in exceptional quality. The present copy is outstanding because both title-pages are highlighted with gold, which is rarely seen.With an… Read More

682 pp.First and only edition of a geographical handbook on Iraq and the Persian Gulf, published on behalf of the Naval Intelligence Division (NID) of the British Admiralty. Written as part of the Geographical Handbook Series of which 58 volumes were written between 1941 and 1946 by two teams of British academics, this volume aims to educate Naval Officers on all matters related to Iraq, under military occupation by Britain since 1941, and the Persian Gulf. The book is divided into twelve chapters, dealing with a wide array of subjects: geology, geography, history, vegetation, agriculture, administration, ethnography, economy etc. As the book was written by English academics, the section devoted to the climate and weather is particularly extensive.The majority of the text was produced by Professor Kenneth Mason of the School of Geography at Oxford. Mason had trained at the Royal Military Academy in Woolwich and seen service in France and the Middle East during World War I. He was part of the Survey of… Read More

[2 blank], 16, 19-109, [9 blank] pp.A detailed manuscript course in the art of navigation in folio format, with figures in colour, including two volvelles, partly based on the very rare first edition (in 8vo format) of Klaas de Vries (1662-1730), Schat-kamer ofte konst der stier-lieden, (1702; Crone 374), probably in the first issue (not known to survive), before the insertion of an additional quire between B and C. But the manuscript doesn't merely copy the printed book: at least much of the text differs and also at least some of the tabular data, and some of the figures also have no direct equivalents in the printed book (also not in later editions, as far as we have seen). The colour illustrations include a compass rose (13.8 cm diameter) with a ship in the centre, directly copied from the folding engraved plate in De Vries and virtually the same size, but the ship in the centre is copied in mirror image and De Vries's abstract floral decorations in the corners outside the circle are replaced by… Read More

[14], 63, [1 blank]; [4], 75, [5] pp.Popular schoolbook by a schoolteacher at Middelburg, teaching children arithmetic at the hand of the numbers quoted in the Bible. All the numbers of biblical amounts of money, measures or weights, were taught to be converted into contemporary Dutch amounts of money, measures or weights. At the end of the present work the Heidelberg catechism is added, with the questions and answers put to rhyme to facilitate the learning by heart for the younger children. Few slight stains, old owner's entry in ink in all woodcut escutcheons, but erased in the first one. Binding slightly soiled. Good copy.l Van der Haar, Schatkamer, N 85; cf. Van Rijn 501.

xxvj, 118, [2], 120 pp.The French author Louis-Balthazar Néel published in 1752 his satirical Voyage de Paris à Saint-Cloud par mer et retour de Saint-Cloud à Paris par terre; a story that simultaneously mocked the genre of travel literature and the people of Paris and its environs.Néel takes his reader on an imaginary journey from Paris to Saint-Cloud, about 15 kilometers from the centre of Paris, upstream on the Seine. The work is a bitter satire of Parisian life in the eighteenth century. The hero of the story and citizen of Paris receives an invitation to a country house in Saint-Cloud. To him, covering the short distance requires the outmost preparations. He buys himself a geographical map, a compass and a gun to prepare for all eventualities. He even takes the time to write his will and pays his outstanding debts. The journey on the wild and rough sea he professes to traverse is in reality the relatively calm Seine.His Voyage de Paris à Saint-Cloud was his most notable publication that… Read More

[32], 439, [40] pp.Fourth extended edition with commentary of the only surviving work of Cornelius Nepos (ca. 100-24 B.C.), the Excellentium Imperatorum Vitae by the Leiden young philologist Robertus Keuchenius (1636-1673, the later professor of Roman history at the Athenaeum Illustre of Amsterdam). It is a so-called ‘Variorum edition’ offering the ‘textus receptus’ of Nepos accompanied with the commentary and annotations taken from earlier editions. The anonymous editor of this 1675 edition seems to be Keuchenius, for the main body of Nepos’ work and his own notes have been preserved. In a short 'ad lectorem' (signed 'Keuchenius' in 1658, anonymous in 1675) the editor explains that he based his edition on those of Lambinus and Longolius. Our 1687 edition is a close verbatim, line by line reprint of this 1675 edition with the same lay-out and the same kind of typeface and with the very same frontispiece (with the address altered), this time published by the Blaeu brothers Pieter and Joan and a… Read More

[8], 144, [12]; [16], 151 [=152], [8]; [2], 34 pp.Three works from the early 17th century bound together. The first work is a popular illustrated history of Poland with portraits of monarchs, theologians and emperors, each with a short biography added, by Salomon Neugebauer (1611-1654).The second work is the first edition edited by the jurist Sybren Siccama (1571-1622), of a legal work with the laws of Friesland. The first edition, based on a now lost manuscript, was printed in 1557.The third work is a rare anti-Venetian pamphlet in Italian written on the occasion of the Uskok War (1615-1618). This war was waged by Venice against a group of Balkan pirates (Uskoks or Croatian-Habsburg soldiers), which was stationed by the Habsburg ruler Archduke Ferdinand of Styria (1578-1637) (later Ferdinand II) along its frontiers as part of its military borders. The Venetian-Habsburg conflict eventually involved troops from all-over Europe, with Venice, the Dutch United Provinces and England on one side, and the… Read More

[12], 134, [1], [1 blank] pp.First Dutch edition, with engravings printed from the plates of the second English edition, of the famous English children's book on natural science: The Newtonian system of philosophy adapted to the capacity of young gentlemen and ladies, first published in 1761 and variously ascribed to John Newbury (1713-1767) or Olivier Goldsmith. The Dutch adaptor has remained anonymous. The book is meant for beginners in natural science and the six lessons are given by a very young and very bright child, Tom Telescope, using objects and situations familiar to children. But all is put on a very scientific base, according to the latest discoveries by Newton. Binding rubbed, top and bottom of spine worn off; small wormholes in lower margins. Internally in good condition.l Bibelebontse berg, pp. 187-188; Buijnsters, BNK 575; Cat. Van Rijn 323; cf. David M. Knight, Natural Science Books in English, p. 79 (1761 Engl. ed.).

First and only edition of a subtly humorous album on travel by horse-drawn carriage through the English countryside at the time of publication, beautifully illustrated with finely coloured aquatints after drawings by Charles B. Newhouse (ca. 1805-1877). Each of the 16 plates has a caption in English and most depict, often quite vividly, the mishaps that can occur underway, giving the book a touch of the ironic humour that Norman Thelwell was to capture in his horse cartoons more than a hundred years later. The plates have been coloured with great artistry and skill, with skies and clouds often executed wholly in watercolour, so that each plate almost becomes a painting in its own right.With a 19th-century armorial bookplate transferred from a previous binding, with the foot torn off, and the blind-stamped ex-libris of Henry Arthur Johnstone. With the illustrated title-page and all plates in very good or fine condition. With the extremities of the binding slightly worn, but still very good. A… Read More

[246] ll.One of the earliest editions (the first Ulm edition, printed by Ulm’s first printer Johann Zainer, who set up in 1473) of an important and highly esteemed exegetical text on the Ten Commandments, a classic treatise on ethics, with chapters on sorcery, necromancy, witchcraft, perjury, dueling, fraudulent trade practices, contracts etc.: "for a long time the most sought after and most used work on morality ... Herein, after the Decalogue, are presented with great clarity, in the scholastic method, the doctrines of Christian morality, the principles clearly developed and illuminated by casus conscientiae." (Kaspar Erich Schieler, Magister Johannes Nider, aus dem Orden der Prediger-Brüder, 1885, p. 382). It proved extremely popular. At least four editions appeared in or around 1472 (Ulrich Zell at Köln produced what is probably the first, published in or shortly before 1472) and at least twenty-two appeared before 1500. Although the present edition is undated, Zainer introduced the large… Read More

63, [10] ll.A Dutch illustrated manuscript devoted to the Arabian peninsula and neighbouring regions, compiled in 1785 by (and the illustrations drawn by) Johan Louis Gerlagh (1735-1798), a director of the Dutch West India Company and East India Company (WIC and VOC). He takes a special interest in the various and styles of script, including Egyptian hieroglyphs and at least six styles of Arabic script, but he also discusses and illustrates bas-reliefs, buildings (including the Great Mosques at Mecca and Medina), musical instruments, footware, a scarab, etc., and provides tables of data concerning tides, compass corrections and temperatures, and accounts of the Islamic calendar, precious stones, weights and measures and coins. The title describes the manuscript as notes from Carsten Niebuhr's Reize naar Arabië en andere omliggende landen, a Dutch translation (1776-1778) of the German Reisebeschreibung nach Arabien ... (1774-1778), but Gerlagh apparently treats Niebuhr's complementary Beschryving van… Read More

VIII, [6], 484, [2]; [16], 455, [1] pp.Dutch translation of an important and famous account of the Royal Danish Expedition (1761-67) to the Middle East, Egypt, Persia and India, the first scientific expedition to this area. The original German edition was published in Copenhagen in 1744-1778 under the title Reisebeschreibung nach Arabien und anderen umliegenden Ländern.''In volume II, p. 317 he [Niebuhr] begins his description of the journey from Beit el Fakih in the coffee mountains. This is accompanied by three engravings'' (Hünersdorff). There are some 40 other references to coffee in this work, including the journey from Sana'a to Mocha. The plates include many views of cities, antiquities and statues, natives in traditional dress, hieroglyphs, Arabic script, musical instruments, a reception with the Iman of Sana'a (Yemen) and views of the mosque in Meshed Ali. The 31 maps and plans show Constantinople, the Nile, Dschidda (Jeddah) in the province of Mecca, Bombay, the palace of Persepolis,… Read More

[6], XXXXI, [1], 408, [14]; [2 blank] XLVI, 270, [2] pp.First Dutch translation of an important and famous account of the Danish royal expedition to the Middle East, Egypt, Persia and India (1761-67), the first scientific expedition to this area. Niebuhr's account is here bound with the Dutch translation of Michaëlis's work, containing a review of the first. "The expedition had been proposed by the Hebrew scholar Johann David Michäelis of Göttingen for the purpose of illustrating certain passages of the Old Testament, and initially envisaged only a single traveller, possible an Arabic scholar. However, the idea rapidly blossomed into a fully-fledged scientfiic expedi - tion. The team eventually assembled, for which there was no appointed leader, included Niebuhr as surveyor, along with Friedrich Christian von Haven, Peter Forskall, Christian Carl Kramer, Georg Baurenfeind, and a Swedish ex-soldier named Berggren'' (Howgego). Carsten Niebuhr (1733-1815) was the sole survivor, and his work represents… Read More

[6], XXXXI, [1], 408, [14]; [2], VIII, [6], 484, [2]; [16], 455, [1] pp.First and only editions of the Dutch translation of a description of Arabia, Egypt and the Middle East (ad 1) and an account of a voyage to Arabia and surrounding countries (ad 2). Both works were originally written by the Danish traveller and surveyor Carsten Niebuhr (1733-1815) and published in German, in Copenhagen in 1772. Both works are lavishly illustrated, having together 2 large maps of Yemen and 148 beautifully engraved maps, plans and views of all the regions Niebuhr visited. Fine untrimmed set (giving very large margins) and bound as a matching set, with only the fore-edge of 1 folding plate slightly tattered, a small marginal tear and an occasional leaf with very minor foxing. The bindings show minor wear in the spines and a few small scuff marks on the sides, but are still very good. Lovely copy of two important and complementary works on Arabia and the Middle East, lavishly illustrated.l Hamilton, Europe and the Arab… Read More

[22], 506, [54] pp.First and only edition in the original German of an account of the Dänisch-Hallesche mission on the Carnatic coast in southeast India, from the beginning in 1705 to 1736. The Dänisch-Hallesche mission was the first Protestant mission and many resulting reports were published in the magazine Hallesche Berichte. Niekamp digested its first 44 chapters and organized them in two main parts: the first dealing with geography, inhabitants, languages etc. and the second treating the mission itself in chronological order; this if followed by a comprehensive index. The work contains a preface by Gotthilf August Francke, the son of the August Hermann Francke, who was one of the driving forces in the creation of the mission.The turn-ins caused some offsetting through the endpapers to the margins of the first and last few leaves, otherwise a very good copy, with only some occasional spots. The binding is rubbed with chips and superficial wear to the spine, but otherwise in good condition.l… Read More

XVI, 328, [4] pp.First edition of a German plan of education, with the additions for the second and third editions of Grundsätzen der Erziehung und des Unterrichts bound in at the end and the extra title-page for these additions facing the main title-page. The book proposes an overall plan and program for the organisation of public schools in Prussia and in the whole of Germany; not only for general education in primary schools and for professional education in agrarian, technical, industrial, commercial and art schools, in schools for girls, etc., but also for education in military academies, universities and for special education in orphanages, schools for the blind, deaf-mute children, etc. A classic in its field. In good condition, with the large armorial bookplate of the library of the House of Sachsen-Eisenach.l Lex. der Pädagogik III, 220; cf. Cat. Van Rijn 16; Kat. Sted. Schoolmuz. Antwerpen, p. 10 (abridged Dutch ed. of 1863).

[12] pp.A political pamphlet in verse celebrating peace and dated less than a month before the signing of the Twelve Years' Truce between Spain and the Dutch Republic. The main poem takes the form of a "codicil" to War's "last will and testament." It recites the various legacies, both good and bad, that the War has left to people on both sides and even to people and countries not directly involved in the fighting. Asher mistakenly lists the present pamphlet as no. 11 in the Bye-Korf series: it was published about six months after the Bye-Korf was banned, but later collectors often inserted it and the associated Testament in place of the earlier Testament, which should have been Asher 26-28/10. The author, place of publication and publisher given on the title-page are all word plays, "Yemand van Waer-Mond" for example suggesting "someone of honest mouth." The STCN attributes the pamphlet with a query to Nierop, who propagandized against peace in one of the Bye-Korf pamphlets (Asher 28/37) but rejoiced… Read More

96 pp.First and only edition, in Portuguese, of a manual on the cultivation of mulberry trees for the purpose breeding silkworms, in order to encourage silk production in Portugal. It was published during a period of economic reforms instituted by the Marquês de Pombal, to whom this work is dedicated, aimed at the encouragement of Portuguese manufacturers, especially of luxury goods, in order to reduce the export of capital.Internally in very good condition, only a few small spots. Binding damaged, most of the spine gone, part of the marbled paper covering the boards torn off.l Innocêncio VII, p. 375.

[2] ll.Four-page manuscript letter by Henry Nisbet (1818-1879) to his sister Sarah Nisbet in Glasgow, dated 7 January 1844. Nisbet was a missionary of the London Missionary Society, who left England for the Pacific Islands in August 1840 together with George Turner (1818-1891). From Sydney they reached Samoa in August 1841 and went to Tanna (nowadays Vanuatu), New Hebrides, where they arrived on 30 June 1842. In January 1843 they fled from Tanna, as the natives threatened to become dangerous, arriving back in Samoa in February 1843. Nisbet would be stationed there for the rest of his life. Nisbet and Turner were among the earliest missionaries to Samoa in 1843. The inhabitants were friendlier, tolerated the mission stations and the religious school classes and let the missionaries do their work.In the present letter to his sister, Nisbet writes about the situation as a missionary in Samoa. Although he states that the missionary work brings much pleasure and variety, he also writes extensively about… Read More