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WITSEN, Nicolaes. Aeloude en Hedendaegsche Scheeps-bouw en Bestier. Amsterdam: Caspar Commelijn, Broer and Jan Appelaer, 1671.
3 parts in 1 volume, 2° (335 x 210mm). Etched title by Romeyn de Hooghe, letterpress title in red and black, engraved portrait of the author, 113 etched plates, one double-page, after N. Witsen. (Lacking text leaf Ooo2 and plate B of Appendix.) 18th-century speckled half calf, spine in seven compartments with dark-brown lettering-piece (Slight cracks to upper joint and upper section of lower joint, lightly rubbed.)
FIRST EDITION of this work on ship construction: second and third editions were published in Amsterdam in 1678 and 1690. The present copy has 109 plates in the first two parts of the work, 2 more than required by Landwehr. Landwehr Romeyn de Hooghe 16.
3 parts in 1 volume, 2° (335 x 210mm). Etched title by Romeyn de Hooghe, letterpress title in red and black, engraved portrait of the author, 113 etched plates, one double-page, after N. Witsen. (Lacking text leaf Ooo2 and plate B of Appendix.) 18th-century speckled half calf, spine in seven compartments with dark-brown lettering-piece (Slight cracks to upper joint and upper section of lower joint, lightly rubbed.)
FIRST EDITION of this work on ship construction: second and third editions were published in Amsterdam in 1678 and 1690. The present copy has 109 plates in the first two parts of the work, 2 more than required by Landwehr. Landwehr Romeyn de Hooghe 16.