Commelin, Caspar. - Beschryvinge van Amsterdam, Zynde een Naukeurige verhandlinge van desselfs eerste Oorspronck uyt den Hyse der Heeren van Amstel, en Amstellant, Haar Vergrooting, Rykdom, en Wyze van Regeeringe, tot den Jare 1691[...]. 2nd edition.

Amst., By Andries Van Damme Damme, [etc.], 1726. 2 vols. [16],1223,[40] pp. Engr. title-plate after P.Tideman, 2 woodcut coat-of-arms on the title-pages, 5 engr. maps/plans & 48 engr. views (one large fold. plan, one large folding panorama, 41 double-page plts & 10 full-page plts), 77 engr. text-ills (5 by Jan Luiken). Uniform contemp. full leather bindings, spine raised in compartments, spine and edges of cover with gilt floral onrnaments. Sm. folio. - Title on spines sl. faded; spine ends skilfully restored.# NvH 68; Ve/Vd Kellen 223 (note). - Very good copy of the second edition. - LARGE PAPER COPY with all the fine views, maps and plans of Amsterdam in strong impressions. - Including a.o. the large panoramic view of Amsterdam seen from the IJ. - - The author had free access to the archives of the city of Amsterdam. His work therefore contains much more reliable sources and official documents than the works of Dapper and Van Domselaar. - Both volumes with an engraved cicular bookplate of the Amsterdam merchant Hendrik van Couwenhoven (Kalinigrad, 1711 - Amsterdam, 1792) on the first endpaper, depicting the coat-of-arms of the family Van Couwenhove (with a.o. three fleur-de-lys), crowned by a two feathered crest and supported by flora ornaments.

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