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EARLY 18TH-CENTURY GUIDE TO AMSTERDAM
[AMSTERDAM - CITY GUIDE]. Le Guide ou Nouvelle Description d'Amsterdam, enseignant aux voyageurs, et aux negoçians sa splendeur, son commerce, & la description de ses edifices, ruës, ports, canaux, ponts, ecluses, &c. Nouvelle edition augmentée considerablement.
INCLUDING: Tarif general des Provinces Unies pour les droits d'entrée & de sortie que payent les marchandises, tant en ce païs qu'à la Mer Baltique, au passage du Sont.
Amsterdam, Paul de la Feuille, 1720, (1718). 8vo. 2 parts in 1 volume. With 20 double-page engraved folding plates with the most famous buildings of Amsterdam, and 8 folding engraved plates printed on both sides of 4 leaves of Dutch and European flags. Antique style mottled calf, with richly gold-tooled spine with red title-label, gilt binding edges and red sprinkled edges.
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Enlarged third and best edition - the first with running text instead of dialogues and 20 instead of 17 plates - of an interesting description of the city of Amsterdam together with a work containing the tariff rates for import and export of all kinds of goods and merchandise imposed by the Seven Dutch United Provences in alphabetical order. Also included are the tariff rates imposed in the Sont (entrance of the Baltic sea) and the last ordinances on the subject, dated 1652 and 1655.
The first edition of the Guide was published in Amsterdam by Daniel de la Feuille in 1701 and was mostly bound together with an edition of the Tarif of 1707, a second edition was printed in 1709.
The plates show the most important buildings of the town, such as the town hall (now the palace on the Dam), the stock exchange, the main churches, the four city gates, the buildings of the Dutch East India Company, the Portugese Synagogue, etc.; the plates with the flags are from Fokkens's L'Art de Blason.
Fine copy in a very well preserved binding.
