DAM, Dirk Jansz. van.
Almanach, d'erven stichters comptoir op 't jaar onses Heeren Jesu Christi, 1771. Voorzien met alle de jaar-, paarden-, beesten- en leermarkten, als mede de vacantien, het varen der trekschuyten en beurtschepen, het ryden der posten, &c. Nevens de maans op en ondergang.
Amsterdam, the heirs of the widow of Cornelis Stichter, [1770].
With: [ALMANAC]. Schutters wagt-almanach, anno 1771, aanwijsende wat compagnien, en op wat nagt zy te zamen waken moeten, om de vijftiende nagt. Nevens een ordre wat posten yder heeft te besetten. Onder de E. E. Heeren Colonellen Jacob Elias. Arent Hartjes. Theodorus Wynants. Hendr. Balth. van Aalst. en S. J. B. Barchm. Wuytiers.Amsterdam, the heirs of the widow of Cornelis Stichters, [1770]. 2 works in 1 volume. 4to. With a woodcut printer's device on the title page of ad 1, a large coat of arms of Amsterdam on the title-page of ad 2, and 12 half-page woodcuts, one for each month, printed in red and black in ad 1. Contemporary elaborately silver-tooled vellum, with the coat of arms of Amsterdam in the centre of the front board, and an impression of three drummers on the back, both signed "Duisburg F[ecit]", both boards with a baroque ornamental border, with the coats of arms of each of the seven Dutch provinces at the top (with that of Holland prominently in the middle), the coats of arms of the 20 largest Dutch cities on the sides (Dordrecht, Delft, Amsterdam, Haarlem, Rotterdam, Leiden, Gouda, Hoorn, Alkmaar and Enkhuizen on the left side; Middelburg, Vlissingen, Amersfoort, Arnhem, Nijmegen, Groningen, Leeuwarden, Franeker, Zwolle and Deventer on the right side), and at the bottom an image that probably shows the transfer of goods near a city. [32]; [5], [1 blank] pp.
€ 2,500
Ad 1: The very popular almanac for the year 1771 published by the heirs of Cornelis Stichter at Amsterdam, in a richly silver-tooled vellum binding, depicting the themes of the work itself with lively baroque ornaments. The "comptoir" or "office" almanac, intended for merchants, business men and office personnel, belonged to the oldest Dutch almanacs. Originally published yearly in various sizes, the present almanac is printed in 4to. The work was composed by Dirk Jansz. van Dam, and consists of an extensive interleaved calendar on 12 leaves containing the days of the month, indicating the phases of the moon, and the dates of the cattle, horse, and leather markets in several places in the country. Each month is illustrated with a half-page woodcut, starts with a poem of four lines, and includes a prognostication and some historical facts which have taken place in that month in previous decades. After the calendar follow the privilege and annual information, including the dates of the official holidays, time-tables for the closing of the city gates, the departure of postal services and passenger coaches and barges, tariff-lists of seals, etc.
Ad 2: After the calendar follows under a separate title (Anno 1771. Schutters wagt-almanach ...) a quire of four leaves with time-tables and posts for the year 1771 for the sixty companies of the Amsterdam night watchmen, more than a century after Rembrandt completed his Night Watch.Strom van Leeuwen records another copy of the same almanac, for the year 1782, bound in exactly the same vellum with the same silver-tooling as our copy, from an unidentified Amsterdam bindery.
With the bookplate of Cornelius John Hauck (1893-1967) mounted on the front pastedown. The silver tooling has evenly oxidised to dark brown, the boards are slightly rubbed. The work is interleaved. Otherwise in very good condition. Ad 1: STCN 156647710 (5 copies); Waller 67; ad 2: not in the STCN; cf. for the binding: Storm van Leeuwen, DDB I, p. 751 (fig. 261), p. 753.
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