Casparus Commelin - Beschryvinge van Amsterdam - 1726

Description of Amsterdam, being a precise treatise of its very origin from the House of the Lords of Amstel, and Amstellant, its enlargement, wealth, and manner of government, up to the year 1691. For this are drawn from various old historians by a certain arrangement, and published; and now from a multitude of old writings, authentic pieces, and with copper engravings adorned, never before printed, described, and augmented by Casparus Commelin - Amsterdam, Andries van Damme/Johannes Ratelband et al., 1726 - 2 volumes - (20) 600[=572]; (2) 601-1223 (41) pp - leather bindings

Good. Chipping and denting on the bindings. A bite out of the cover leaf in both parts. Inside pages discolored, here and there a spot. A 1 cm tear, in the margin of three leaves.
Part 1: a small tear at the bottom of the spine, some loss of leather at the head of the spine. Inner hinge slightly open - the book block fixed in the binding. Sections 153–156 and 249–252 loose and the edges somewhat frayed.
2: a hole in the leather at the top of the back cover. a small gouge at the lower corner; engraving on page 930, the last gathering is coming loose at the bottom. Inner hinge at the back slightly open - the book block fixed in the binding. Moisture spot in the (upper) margin of several pages.

Contains a frontispiece, 31 of the 53 engravings (full-page and double-page) and 79 engravings in the text (plus a few more illustrations) – all illustrated.

Engravings in the text of, among others.
-Huys Zeeburg
-Old Haarlem Gate
-Old Reguliers Gate
-Old St. Anthony's Gate
-Raam Poort
-Zaagmolens Poort
-Holy Way's Gate
-Reguliers Gate
-St. Antonis Gate
-Wetrings Poort
-Old City Hall
-French church
-Lutheran Church
-English Church
-Church of the Mennonites
- Portuguese synagogue
High German synagogue
-RaspHuys
-Spin-huys
-Koorenbeurs
-Latynsche School
-City Inn
-Shaken and clock foundry

-Amsterdam. as it was around the year 1300
- Amsterdam in the year 1500
-Amsterdam with the engraving from the year 1613
Zaaghmolen-poort/Raampoort
-Amsterdam with the self-wrapping loins (a tear at the bottom, two folds visible in the image (see photo))
- De Weesperpoort
- The Leydsche Gate
- Amsterdam, seen along the banks of the IJ.
Neat outline of the old and new roojingh of the city of Amsterdam.
- Royal Palace on the Dam
-Old church
- Memorial monument above the grave of H. Paulus Wirts, Field Marshal of the Netherlands / Memorial scene in memory of Willem van der Zaan, sheriff by night
-New Church
-The Nieuwezijds Chapel
-Guest house
- Old Women's House
-Widows' House
The fair
-New bridge with the water barrier
- De Waag
-Illustrious school
-Garden of Medicine
-The big sea and river fish market
-Jan Roden Gate Tower
-Reguliers Tower
-Haringpakkers Tower
Schreyer's Tower
Montelbaan's Tower
-Princenhof
-’s land’s sea warehouse and shipwright’s yard
-Extradition of the magistrate and the clergy of the city of Amsterdam and put on board.


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