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How to entertain your family during the long winter-evenings
WITGEEST, Simon (= Willem GOEREE?).Het nieuw vermeerdert natuerlyk toover-boek of speel-tooneel der konsten. Bevattende omtrent 2000 natuerlyke toover-konsten en poetsen, zoo uyt de guychel tas als kaert-spel en tereling ... dienstig tot heerlyk vermaek. Den X. druk.     Antwerpen, Petrus Josephus Rymers, 1781. 8vo. Contemporary half calf, gilt title and ornament on spine. With engraved frontispiece by Harrewyn and numerous woodcut illustrations in text, 8 of which are full-page. (10), 558, (2) pp. One of the many editions of this famous entertaining bestseller and chap book on 'white magic', which was reprinted till far into the nineteenth century. The book was first published in 1679 by Jan van Hoorn in Amsterdam who presented the author on the title-page as 'Simon Witgeest from Middelburg'. The title of the 1679 edition was Het nieuw toneel der konsten. Landwehr, assuming that 'Witgeest" (White-ghost) is a pseudonym expressing the notion that the book is not on 'black', but on 'white magic', attributes the book on unknown grounds to Willem Goeree (1635-1711), a physician from Middelburg who was a bookseller in Middelburg from 1666 till 1677 and later in Amsterdam (NNBW VII, col. 479; a 1679-edition edited by Goeree in Middelburg, as Landwehr suggests, doesn't exist). In 1715 Jan ten Hoorn printed already the 10th edition with a title which is almost identical with the title in our copy: perhaps our Antwerp edition is a word-for-word reprint of this 1715 edition. Also in Germany the book turned out to be a bestseller: many German editions appeared in the eighteenth century under the title Natürliches Zauberbuch. The popular work contains hundreds games, conjuring tricks, tricks with playing cards and dies, with numbers, etc., but gives also advices and recipes on preparing different kinds of ink, pigments and varnishes, on women's make-up and beautifiers; further recipes for medicines and for making wine and other spirits, household advices on animals and plants, chapters on flower painting, on the weather, etc. An extensive last chapter (Ch. XXIV, p. 441-518) is entirely devoted to fireworks, based on Daniel Manlyn's Pyrotechnia (Amsterdam 1678) and lavishly illustrated with the 8 full-page woodcuts. Good copy.- (Small tear in frontispiece, lower margin title page cut off, binding sl. worn).
Landwehr, De Nederlander uit en thuis, p. 148-50; Volkskunde, 68 (1967), p. 67f.; Waller 1870-7, esp. 1874 with the same text and "Den X. druk" on the title (se above)); Muller, Pop. prozaschr. 555 ("Men kan er menigen winter-avond de jeugd meê bezig houden"); De Vries, Pop. prozaschr. 528-29 (all other editions).
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