MARCUS, Jacobus.
Deliciae Batavicae[.]...
Amsterdam, Johannes Janssonius, 1618. Oblong 8vo (text) & small oblong 4to (plates) (14.5 x 19 cm). With 8 engraved armorial plates. These are followed by 30 engraved views or scenes most with a Latin distich at the foot. Interleaved. Sprinkled calf (ca. 1700), gold-tooled spine. [1], [1 blank], [5], [1 blank] pp. plus plates.
€ 12,500
The most complete copy we have seen of the 1618 edition of a rare work of noteworthy sights, views, and scenes from daily life and from trade and industry in the Netherlands (primarily Holland). It was intended in part for students to use as an album amicorum. The plates include salting and smoking haring, ship-building, making hemp rope ("cannabis" in Holland in 1618!), Dutch peasants, ice skating, wind-powered and horse-drawn ice sledges, wind-powered carts on the beach and many more. One copy of this edition at Amsterdam University has exactly the same plates as the present, while another copy there, and copies at Leiden University and the Pierpont Morgan Library, have fewer.The heraldic plates vary even more from copy to copy and were probably assembled according to the wishes (and pocketbook) of the buyer. Ours has 8, the Van Stolk copy of the undated edition has 4 and the most complete Leiden copy of the 1616 edition has 7, but each has heraldic plates not in the others. Atlas van Stolk 1027 note (citing copy then in possession of Frederik Muller & Co. with 27 views, perhaps now at Leiden University: Van Stolk's own copy, of the undated ed., has 26 views); STCN (4 copies); WorldCat (5 copies); cf. Hollstein XXXVIII, C. J. Visscher 116a-120a, 122a-123a (8 views); Muller, Hist. prenten, suppl., 1285B (undated ed., 10 views); Simoni, D38 (undated ed. 30 plates incl. arms & views); http://socrates.leidenuniv.nl (1616 ed.).
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