[AMSTERDAM - CITY GUIDE].
Le guide ou nouvelle description d'Amsterdam, enseignant aux voyageurs, et aux negoçians sa splendeur, son commerce, & la description de ses edifices, ruës, ports, canaux, ponts, ecluses, &c. Nouvelle edition augmentée considerablement.
Amsterdam, Paul de la Feuille, 1720.
With: (2) Tarif general des Provinces Unies pour les droits d'entrée & de sortie que payent les marchandises, tant en ce païs qu'à la Mer Baltique, au passage du Sont.
Amsterdam, Paul de la Feuille, 1718. 2 works in 1 volume. 8vo. Ad 1 with 28 engraved illustrations on 24 folding leaves. Further with a small woodcut vignette on the title page, one woodcut decorated initial, and one woodcut headpiece. Ad 2 with a woodcut floral vignette on the title page, and typographical tables in the text. Contemporary gold-tooled mottled calf, with a red morocco title label lettered in gold on the spine, gold-tooled board edges, and red sprinkled edges. [1], [1 blank], [4], "216" [= 198], [2 blank]; 123; [2]; pp.
€ 1,250
Enlarged third and best edition - the first with running text instead of dialogues - of an interesting description of the city of Amsterdam together with a work containing the tariff rates for import and export of all kinds of goods and merchandise imposed by the Dutch Republic in alphabetical order. Also included are the tariff rates imposed in the Sont (entrance of the Baltic sea) and the last ordinances on the subject, dated 1652 and 1655.
The first edition of the Guide was published in Amsterdam by Daniel de la Feuille in 1701 and was mostly bound together with an edition of the Tarif of 1707, a second edition was printed in 1709.
The plates show the most important buildings of the city, such as the city hall (now the Royal Palace of Amsterdam), the stock exchange, the main churches, the 4 city gates, the buildings of the Dutch East India Company (VOC), the Portuguese Synagogue, etc.; the plates with the flags are from Fokkens' L'Art de Blason.
Some minor (dust) soiling along the edges of the leaves, the folding plates and quire K are slightly browned. Otherwise in very good condition. Kress library S.2892; Ad 1: Nijhoff & V. Hattum 117; STCN 300355386 (3 copies); WorldCat 65353974, 838244431, 46615043, 313124792, 46652734, 1159002974, 122306935, 433419188, 886395040 (17 copies); cf. Cat. Goldsmith I,10831 (ed. 1772); not in Einaudi; ad 2: STCN 180657542 (7 copies).
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