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DONCK, Adriaen van der (1620-1655). Beschryvinge van Nieuw-Nederlandt (Gelijck het tegenwoordigh in Statet is) Begrijpende de Nature, Aert, gelegentheyt en en vruchtbaerheyt van het selve Landt daer noch by-gevoeght is Een Discours over de gelegentheyt van Nieuw-Neerlandt, tusschen een Nederlandts Patriot, ende een Nieuw Nederlander. Amsterdam: Evert Nieuwenhof, 1656.
2 parts in one volume, 4° (195 x 145mm). Black letter. Title with arms of the Dutch West India Company. Folding engraved map of New Netherlands after N. J. Visscher, signed by Nieuwenhof, with inset view of New Amsterdam and the island of Manhattan, in second state (305 x 186mm). Woodcut armorials at head of dedication. (Map with two short tears, one with small repair on verso, H3 with small hole slightly affecting bottom line of text.) 20th-century russet morocco, spine titled in gilt. Provenancei sold Sotheby's London, February 10 1981, lot 438.
Second edition, THE FIRST TO CONTAIN THE MAP OF "NOVA BELGICA SIVE NIEUW NEDERLANDT", drawn directly from a portion of Visscher's map of "Novi Belgii" (Amsterdam, ca 1655). Van der Donck's 100-page pamphlet, "of the highest interest for the history of New York" (Sabin), was published in order to recruit new colonists. He had himself arrived in New Amsterdam in 1642, purchasing an estate on the Hudson River near the present site of Yonkers. His proselytising work first appeared in 1655 with an illustration of Fort New Amsterdam, excluded in the second edition. However, the folding map introduced in the second edition was of no less significance for its view of "Nieuw Amsterdam op t Eylant Manhattans" at the foot. Of unknown authorship, this view first appeared in Visscher's separately-published map, and constitutes "probably the second published view of the city, the first being that of Joost Hartgers in 1651" (Burden p. 406). The settlements of many native American tribes are shown on the map, and the discussion of their manners and customs beginning on page 52 occupies about a third of the pamphlet. The second part of just four pages prints the agreement between the West India Company and the States General of the United Netherlands on conditions for departing colonists. VERY RARE. According to ABPC this is the only copy to appear at auction since 1963. Burden The Mapping of North America 315 & 317; Phillips Maps of America 499 & 519; Sabin 20594; cf. Church 535 (1st edition).
2 parts in one volume, 4° (195 x 145mm). Black letter. Title with arms of the Dutch West India Company. Folding engraved map of New Netherlands after N. J. Visscher, signed by Nieuwenhof, with inset view of New Amsterdam and the island of Manhattan, in second state (305 x 186mm). Woodcut armorials at head of dedication. (Map with two short tears, one with small repair on verso, H3 with small hole slightly affecting bottom line of text.) 20th-century russet morocco, spine titled in gilt. Provenancei sold Sotheby's London, February 10 1981, lot 438.
Second edition, THE FIRST TO CONTAIN THE MAP OF "NOVA BELGICA SIVE NIEUW NEDERLANDT", drawn directly from a portion of Visscher's map of "Novi Belgii" (Amsterdam, ca 1655). Van der Donck's 100-page pamphlet, "of the highest interest for the history of New York" (Sabin), was published in order to recruit new colonists. He had himself arrived in New Amsterdam in 1642, purchasing an estate on the Hudson River near the present site of Yonkers. His proselytising work first appeared in 1655 with an illustration of Fort New Amsterdam, excluded in the second edition. However, the folding map introduced in the second edition was of no less significance for its view of "Nieuw Amsterdam op t Eylant Manhattans" at the foot. Of unknown authorship, this view first appeared in Visscher's separately-published map, and constitutes "probably the second published view of the city, the first being that of Joost Hartgers in 1651" (Burden p. 406). The settlements of many native American tribes are shown on the map, and the discussion of their manners and customs beginning on page 52 occupies about a third of the pamphlet. The second part of just four pages prints the agreement between the West India Company and the States General of the United Netherlands on conditions for departing colonists. VERY RARE. According to ABPC this is the only copy to appear at auction since 1963. Burden The Mapping of North America 315 & 317; Phillips Maps of America 499 & 519; Sabin 20594; cf. Church 535 (1st edition).
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