GIETERMAKER, Klaas Hendriksz.
't Vergulde licht der zee-vaard, ofte konst der stuurlieden. Zynde een volkomen en klare onderwyzinge der navigatie, bestaande in 't geen een stuurman hoognodig behoorde te weten.
Amsterdam, Joannes van Keulen & sons, [not before 1774]. With an engraved frontispiece, 2 engraved circle figures with moving volvelles, 1 engraved mathematical and geometrical folding plate, many tables (some folding) and many mathematical and geometrical woodcut illustrations and figures in the text.
With:
(2) DOUWES, Bernardus Joannes. Tafelen, bevattende 1°. De sinussen, tangenten en secanten, van minuut tot minuut voor ieder boog van het quadrant, in hunne natuurlyke getallen, op een radius van 10.000.000. 2°. Derzelver logarithmen. 3°. De logarithmen der gewoone getallen, in hunne natuurlyke orde van opvolging, van 1 tot 10.000. 4°. De vergrootende breedten, in tiende-deelen van minuuten. 5°. De streektafelen, naar het plat en het rond, voor ieder geheele compasstreek van een vierde-rond. Nieuwe, naauwkeurige en veel verbeterde uitgaave.
Amsterdam, Gerard Hulst van Keulen, 1779. Completely filled with mathematical tables.
(3) [drop title:] Tafel van de lengte en breedte der meest bekende zee-plaatzen.
[Amsterdam?, Gerard Hulst van Keulen?, ca. 1779?].
3 works in 1 volume, the first in 4 parts. 4to. Contemporary blind-tooled vellum. Ad 1: [8], 106; 152, 8; 97; 98-120 pp. Ad 2: [233], [1 blank] pp. Ad 3: 39, [1 blank] pp.
€ 6,500
Ad 1: Highly popular work on the art of navigation by the Dutch mathematician Klaas Hendriksz. Gietermaker (1621-1699), first published in 1660. In 1661 Gietermaker was employed as examiner for new helmsmen for the Dutch East India Company (VOC). The book discusses all the kinds of problems and difficulties the pupils had to solve at examinations and while piloting a ship.
Ad 2: Second improved edition of a popular mathematical survey, containing tables of sines, tangents and secants, as well as logarithms, by the mathematician Bernardus Joannes Douwes (fl. 1775-1779). He first published it in 1775 and it was often bound together with other works on the art of navigation, for example the 't Vergulde licht der zee-vaard, but also frequently Steenstra's Grond-beginzels der stuurmans-kunst.
Ad 3: Extremely rare and unrecorded treatise with the latitudes and longitudes of the most frequently visited locations at sea. In the second edition of Steentra's Grond-beginzels der stuurmanskunst (1779), this treatise is incorporated into the work, with a continuous pagination, in contrast to the present copy, where it has its own collation and pagination. Although works with more or less the same title, but with a different collation, can be found in some bibliographical works, the present edition of the Tafel van de lengte en breedte der meest bekende zee-plaatsen seems to be unrecorded.
With a ballpoint owner's inscription ("P. Horneman. 14 November 1984") on the front paste-down. Head of the backstrip of the spine and hinges professionally restored and reinforced. Edges of some leaves slightly browned, some of the outer margins of some folding tables and of the frontispiece in ad 1 slightly frayed, some margins a little water-stained, but overall in good condition. A highly interesting convolute with rare (editions of) mathematical works on the art of navigation. Ad 1: Bierens de Haan 1657; Bom, Van Keulen, p. 26, p. 29; Crone Library 601; Hoogendoorn, GIE05.21; STCN (3 copies); cf. Cat. NSHM, p. 675 (8th edition, 1756). Ad 2: Bierens de Haan 1228; Bom, van Keulen, p. 32; Cat. NHSM, p. 679; Crone Library 622a/622b; STCN (5 copies). Ad 3: Not in STCN; WorldCat.
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