winter miscellany - Gert Jan Bestebreurtje

Jesuit sources and adds to them the observations of one of the first Dutchmen to travel
in China’s interior and visit the capital. Nieuhof ’s book is lavishly illustrated (providing)
European readers with more realistic visual images of China’s landscape and
people than ever before (Lach-Kley, Asia in the making, III, p.484. First embassy of the
Dutch East India Company (VOC) of Pieter de Goyer and Jakob de Keyser to the
court of China in the years 1655-57, describing all the events during this mission, the
country, people, flora & fauna, etc. One of the very few non-Jesuit sources of the
period. It is richly illustrated with large views of all ports and places visited, starting
with Batavia, and with numerous nice text-engravings illustrating in detail Chinese
life in the 17th century. The Paolinxi-plate mentioned in the index is actually only
present in the Latin edition. - With armorial bookplate of De Forlia. - A fine copy.
Tiele 801; Landwehr, VOC, 540; Cat. NHSM I, p.499 (Dutch ed.); Cordier, B.S.,
col.2345-2346; Lust 534; Boucher de la Richarderie V, p.297.
88 NIEUWENTYT, Bernard. Het regt gebruik der werelt beschouwingen ter overtuiginge
van ongodisten en ongelovigen aangetoont. 6e druk. Amsterdam, Adrianus
Douci, 1754.
4to. Contemporary mottled calf, spine gilt (extremities of spine damaged). With titlepage
printed in red and black with nice emblematic vignette, fine engraved portrait
after Dk. Valkenburg by P. van Gunst, and 28 folding engraved plates. (12),916,(17)
pp. € 450,00
Bernard Nieuwentyt (1654-1718), mathematician and philosopher and burgomaster
of Purmerend, is perhaps best remembered for his controversy with Leibniz; as a
methodologist he was unequaled up to modern times. He was a follower of Descartes
and opponent of Spinoza. In this scientic treatise, his main work, he attacks Spinoza
and his school from a biblical point of view. The plates depict anatomical, physiological,
mathematical, optical and astronomical figures.
Bierens de Haan 3561.
89 NOBLE, John. Zuid-Afrika, zijn verleden en zijn heden. Eene beknopte geschiedenis
van de Europeesche volkplantingen aan de Kaap. Uit het Engelsch. Amsterdam,
J.C. Schröder, 1878.
Original green cloth, with gilt lettering. XVI,416,(2) pp. € 75,00
History of the European settlement in South Africa.
SAB III, p.553.