[ALMANAC].
Almanak voor reizigers in het Koningrijk der Nederlanden. Met platen en plattegronden van steden. Eerste jaargang 1819.
Amsterdam, Mortier Covens & son, Ten Brink & De Vries, 1819.
With: [ALMANAC]. Almanak voor reizigers in het Koningrijk der Nederlanden. Met platen en plattegronden van steden. Tweede jaargang 1820.
Amsterdam, Mortier Covens & son, Ten Brink & De Vries, 1820. 2 works in 1 volume. 8vo. With 5 full-page engravings with views of Boskoop, Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Texel, and Medemblik by D. Veelwaard, protected by tissue paper guards, 2 full-page maps of the routes in South-Holland (ad 1) and North Holland (ad 2), and 14 city plans of Amsterdam, Leiden, The Hague, Delft, Rotterdam, Gouda (ad 1), Haarlem, Enkuizen, Medemblik, Alkmaar, Purmerend, Monnickendam, Edam, and Hoorn (ad 2), each with an accompanying leaf with explanations. Contemporary gold-tooled straight-grained red morocco, with the rod of Asclepius, a ship, and an anchor on the spine, a floral border on both boards, gold-tooled board edges and turn-ins, a red morocco pencil holder on the fore edge of the back board, a folding pocket in the back, gilt edges, marbled endpapers. [24], iv, 52, [2], 20; [26], "53-84" [=31], [2], "21-48" [=27], [2] pp. + 43 blank leaves.
€ 750
The first two of the in total three published years of a traveller's almanac, each focussing on a different province in the Kingdom of the Netherlands. Present here are North- and South-Holland. The third part, published a year later, was on Utrecht. Apart from the calendars and related information, they contain a continuing geographical and historical description of the main cities in these provinces, and itinerary information for the routes between these cities, with travel times and distances, and time-tables for public transportation. They are illustrated with maps, views, and plans of the town and routes. The present copy also includes blank leaves for annotations.
With the bookplate of W.Ch. Roelofsz mounted on the front pastedown, and his signature and shelf mark label on the title page. The edges and corners of the boards, as well as the spine ends, are somewhat scuffed, a few scratched on the back board, lacking the pencil. Some of the tissue paper guards are slightly foxed. Otherwise in good condition. Bodel Nijenhuis 242; not in Vandenhole.
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