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Brandt, Gerard and Sebastiaan Centen. Historie Der vermaerde Zee- en Koop-stadt Enkhuisen, Vervaetende haere Herkomste, en Voortgangh. Mitsgaders verscheide gedenkwaerdige Geschiedenissen, aldaer voorgevallen. ... Den tweede Druk met een Vervolg vermeerdert. Hoorn, J. Duyn, 1747. 2 parts in 1 volume. 4to. First title-page printed in red and black, titles to both parts with engraved vignette with view of Enkhuizen, full-page engraved frontispiece with city of Enkhuizen represented as a female figure holding the city's coat of arms, 1 folding engraved plan (17 x 21 cm), 5 full-page and 2 folding engraved portraits, 1 folding engraved plate with coats of arms of city officials. Eighteenth-century sprinkled calf, spine richly gold-tooled.
€ 2300
JFB B-392; Nijhoff & V. Hattum 46.Second edition of the history of Enkhuizen. Situated on the Zuiderzee, Enkhuizen was an important sea port in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. In 1666 the poet, historian and biographer Gerard Brandt (1626-1685), who served as pastor in the neighbouring, and sometimes rival, town of Hoorn from 1660 to 1667, published a history of Enkhuizen to the year 1609. Sebastiaan van Centen (ca. 1691-1756), pastor at Hoorn from 1726 to 1756, published a second edition of Brandt's history. He included Brandt's history to 1609 without changes and wrote a continuation to the year 1678, which also contains some information on the West India Company. The five full-page portraits and the folding plate with coats of arms of city officials in 1666 are already found in the first edition of Brandt's history.
Part I, p. 31 small stain in text; part II, pp. 97, 127, 447 minor hole very slightly affecting text; some folding plates with repaired tears. A well preserved and large-margined copy.
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€ 14.300
Nijhoff, BHGN III 540; NNBW VIII, cols 1236-1237.Topographical description of parts of the Dutch provinces North and South Holland. The eight volumes cover Dordrecht, IJsselmonde, and Beijerland (volume 1), Delfland (volume 2), Amstelland, Weesperkerspel and Gooiland (volume 3), Kennemerland (volume 4), Schieland and Krimpenerwaard (volume 5), Voorne, Putten, Overflakkee and Portugaal (volume 6) and Rijnland (volumes 7-8). The cities and villages in each region are depicted in an oval-shaped, engraved vignette with a few rhymed lines underneath, while their locations, names, main buildings, commerce, type of government, some historical facts, inns, etc., are discussed in mostly eight to sixteen pages. Some small villages are not accompanied by an engraved plate. The pagination starts again with each village and/or town. The first four volumes were written by Lieve van Ollefen, volume five by Van Ollefen and R. Bakker, and the final three volumes by R. Bakker.
Volumes 6 and 7 partly uncut, vol. 7 Wilsveen plate margins shaved, some volumes with slight damage to spine; volumes 1-5 with red, volumes 6-8 with red-brown title-label. Good copy of this attractive topography with plates and paper in good condition and crisp.