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Orders can be sent to either firm. Antiquariaat FORUM BV ASHER Rare Books Tuurdijk 16 Tuurdijk 16 3997 ms ‘t Goy – Houten 3997 ms ‘t Goy – Houten The Netherlands The Netherlands Phone: +31 (0)30 6011955 Phone: +31 (0)30 6011955 Fax: +31 (0)30 6011813 Fax: +31 (0)30 6011813 E–mail: [email protected] E–mail: [email protected] Web: www.forumrarebooks.com Web: www.asherbooks.com www.forumislamicworld.com cover image: no. 1 v 1.0 · 24 Apr 2019 Two extremely rare naval print series: the first by a nearly forgotten Dutch master working for the French court and the second unrecorded 1. BEECQ, Jan Karel Donatus van (Jean-Charles-Donat). Plusieurs pieces maritimes. Paris, “rue St. Jacques aux 2 Piliers d’or” [=Gérard Audran, ca. 1683]. Oblong 2º. Series of 6 numbered engraved plates after designs by Van Beecq, including title-page and 5 naval views with captions below. The title-page notes the series is engraved by Moyse Jean-Baptiste Fouard, but three of the other plates give Gérard Audran as the engraver. With: (2) POILLY, Nicolas de. Livre de plusieurs navires de guerre et vaisseaux marchands. Paris, Nicolas de Poilly, [ca. 1683?]. Oblong 4º. Series of 6 plates, the first with the title as a caption below and the name and address of De Poilly, the others only note “NDePoilly ex C.P.R.”, that is “cum privilegio regis”. 2 works in 1 volume. Contemporary calf. € 19 000 Ad 1: Third (or second) copy located of an attractive print series by the Dutch marine painter J. van Beecq (1638–1722), a nearly forgotten master who had left the Netherlands when the art market collapsed in the “year of disaster” 1672. He first followed father and son Willem van de Velde to England, but soon moved to France where he became painter to Louis XIV, a member of the Académie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture and a protégé of important patrons. In 1685, the art-loving naval official Esprit Cabart de Villermont wrote a letter to the Minister of Navy Jean- Baptiste Colbert, marquis de Seignelay, recommending Van Beecq to his attention: “He is the only here [in France] who excels in this genre”. The only copy we could actually locate is in the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich. Schwartz also notes a copy in the Bibliothèque National, but the title is not found in their online catalogue. Ad 2: Only copy located of a naval print series by the French engraver Nicolas de Poilly (1626–1696). He was taught the art of engraving by his better known brother François de Poilly and mostly produced portraits and religious and historical engrav- ings. The first plates show large war and merchant ships and the last shows several battered ships in the aftermath of a storm. A stain at the top right corner throughout, only affecting a small corner of the plates, and a vertical fold though the centre of the second series, otherwise in very good condition. Binding restored. [12] ll. Ad 1: Hollstein I, p. 192 (doesn’t give a location); G. Schwartz, “J. van Beecq” in: Les échanges artistiques entre les ancien Pays-Bas et la France 1482–1814 (2010); KVK/WorldCat (1 copy); Wurzbach I, p. 68; not in Cat. NHSM; CCfr; Groot & Vorstman; Polak; SUDOC; ad 2: not in CCfr; Polak; SUDOC; WorldCat; for Poilly: Nagler XIII, pp. 68–69. ☞ More on our website Fine untrimmed copy of a pilot guide, with coloured maps and aquatint profiles 2. BOUGAR D, René and John Thomas SERR ES. The little sea torch: or, true guide for coasting pilots. London, J. Debrett for the “author” [Serres], G. & W. Nicol, et al. [printed by T. Rickaby], 1801. Large 2º (47 × 30 cm). With 20 numbered aquatint plates containing 137 coastal profiles, and 12 partly numbered engraved plates containing 24 maps of port cities, harbours, islands and the Strait of Gibraltar. All coastal profiles and maps beautifully and subtly coloured by a contemporary hand. Contemporary boards. € 14 500 First English edition, with aquatint profiles, of Bougard’s Le Petit Flambeau de la Mer, a marine pilot guide to coastal navigation originally published in 1684 and extensively revised for the present edition by Serres. The coastal profiles cover the British Isles, Spain, Portugal, Italy and France, and the islands included among the maps include Corsica, Malta and Corfu. The coastal profiles show many spectacular cliffs and rock formations, numerous light-houses (an important source for their history), fortresses and occasionally other buildings, as well as ships and smaller boats, a large view of the whole city of La Valette on Malta, and even three smoking volcanoes (Vesuvius, Stromboli and Etna). The text includes information on the Barbary Coast, and islands and coasts en route to the East Indies. This is the first major revision to the maps and views of the Petit Flambeau, which saw only minor changes of content from 1684 to 1716 and no more in the editions (to 1789) before the present. With a contemporary owner’s signature on the title-page (Peter Rye) and the lovely armorial bookplate of the Philadelphia publisher and bibliophile Moncure Biddle (1882–ca. 1952). Spine subtly restored, but otherwise fine and wholy untrimmed. VI, 144, [5] pp. Abbey, England 344; Cat. NHSM, p. 218; Pastoureau, Bougard N (5 copies); Phillips & LeGear 2852. ☞ More on our website Navigating the waters around Texel 3. BR A NDLIGT, Laurens. Scylla en Charybdis; behelzende een project, ter verbetering der zeegaten en het vaarwater van Texel, en aanwinning van eenige duizend morgen land. Amsterdam, Johannes Allart, Laurens Brandligt, 1780. 8º. With 4 folding engraved maps and 1 folding engraved plate. Contemporary mottled calf, richly gold-tooled spine. € 2750 First and only edition of a work on navigation around the Dutch island Texel, written by the sea merchant Laurens Brandligt. Due to alluviation the stream velocity in the waters around Texel had decreased. Brandligt suggests several ways to improve the nav- igability of these waters, which was important since Dutch warships often took refuge in them. Brandligt also tries to promote Den Helder as a new harbour for both war and merchant ships, stressing the poor accessibility of Amsterdam. Small tear in first free endleaf, restored, title-page slightly browned. Binding rubbed along the extrem- ities, spine damaged at the top and front hinge partly cracked. Overall in good condition. XIII, [1], 194 pp. Bierens de Haan 558; Kemper 1566; STCN 160106095. ☞ More on our website Biography of the great Dutch naval hero Admiral Michiel de Ruyter Large paper copy of the first edition 4. BR A NDT, Geeraert. Het leven en bedryf van den heere Michiel de Ruiter. Amsterdam, for Wolfgang, Waesberge, Boom, van Someren and Goethals, 1687 (engraved title-page: printed by Pieter and Joan Blaeu, 1686). 2º (34.5 × 22.5 cm). With engraved title-page, engraved portrait of De Ruyter, 7 engraved double-page plates by Sebastiaen Stoopendaal and 1 engraved plate by Joseph Mulder. Late 18th-century calf, gold-tooled spine. € 3750 Large paper copy of the first edition, in the original Dutch, of the standard biography of the great Dutch naval hero Admiral Michiel Adriaansz. de Ruyter (1607–1676), who scored several major victories against the French and English, the best known abroad being the Raid on Chatham, one of the worst defeats of the British Royal Navy. For the present work Brandt used numerous original documents from De Ruyter’s son and other private individuals, as well as from official government sources. “This resulted in a book that was not only based on good information, but through his exalted, lucid and engaging style also became a true folk-book in the best sense of the word” (NNBW). De Ruyter fought the English off the coast of West Africa, the Caribbean, temporarily took St John’s, New Foundland, and even considered retaking New York. While the binding is somewhat scuffed along the spine, the book itself is in very good condition, with only an occasional spot. [10], “1063” [=1065], [23] pp. Alden & Landis 687/21; Cat. NHSM, p. 843; Sabin 7405; for the author: NNBW VI, cols. 184–187. ☞ More on our website Only edition of a biography of the leader of the Portuguese campaign in India 5. COUTO, Diogo do. Vida de D. Paulo de Lima Pereira capitam mo’r de armadas do estado da India ... o Hercules Portuguez. Lisbon, Jozé Filippe, 1765. 8º. Contemporary mottled calf, gold-tooled spine. € 4500 Rare first edition of the only account of the life of Paulo de Lima Pereira (1538–1589), leader of the Portuguese campaign in India.