Author: [MOOLEN, Symon van de].
Title: De volmaakte bootsman, vervattende hoe men uit een gegeven scheeps lengte de voornaamste scheepsdelen zal vinden, de bemasting, het kerven van ’t staande en lopende touwerk, en verder het geene in ’t toetakelen der scheepen van nooden is. Mitdsgaders de takelagie voor verscheide charters van scheepen, welke by de ’s lands oorlogscheepen in gebruik zyn … Zeer dienstig voor alle zeevarende lieden.Amsterdam, Widow of [Gerard] Hulst van Keulen, [ca. 1818]. Small 8vo. With a large folding plate (42.5 x 52 cm) depicting and noting in numbers all the parts of a 17th-century three-master and two smaller Dutch ships at sea engraved by Anthonie de Winter (1652-1707) after Johannes van Keulen (1654-1715). 20th-century green faux snakeskin, sewn on 4 leather tapes laced through the joints, the extended back wrapper closing on the front side as an envelope, marbled endpapers, red edges.
Description: [4], 124 pp.Very rare edition of a practical maritime handbook for boatswains and other seamen by the Dutch cartographer, mathematician, and astronomer Symon van de Moolen (1658-1741). The greater part of the work had been already published in 1680: De nieuwe Hollandsche scheepsbouw: waer in vertoont wert hoedanigh alle scheepstouwen en andere deelen in een volmaeckt schip geplaetst zijn (Amsterdam, Johannes van Keulen, 1680; 3rd ed. 1695). The first edition of De volmaakte Bootsman was published ca. 1698, with the fifth edition being published in 1779, including 3 by the Van Keulen firm and 1 (ca. 1730) by the widow of J. Loots & I. Swigters. The present edition was certainly published after the death of Gerard Hulst van Keulen in 1801. Editions with his widow, Anna Hendrina Calkoen (1740-1810), mentioned in the imprint continued appearing for years after her own death in 1810.Printed on the verso of the title-page is a poem, also by Symon van de Moolen: "Aan den Zeeman". After the introduction follow four chapters on the length of the ships, the proportions of the masts for various types of ships, standing rigging, rigging for the nine different charters, and the various pulley blocks. Chapter 5 discusses the size and weight of the various anchors, and the last section is devoted to the use and the handling of flags.With the bookbinder's label ("Fred Kroon") mounted on the back pastedown. The work is slightly browned throughout, the folding plate with a small tear in the inner margin, not affecting the image. Otherwise in very good condition.l Cat. NHSM p. 755; Hoogendoorn Mool03, 5 (pp. 666-667); cf. Cat. NHSM p. 749; E.O. van Keulen et al., ‘In de Gekroonde Lootsman’. Het kaarten, boekuitgevers en instrumentmakershuis Van Keulen te Amsterdam, 1680-1885 (1989); not in Crone Library;

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