Olfert Dapper - Historische beschrijving van Amsterdam - 1663

Historical description of the city of Amsterdam: in which, in the chief histories (after a short account of all Holland and the surrounding villages, such as crafts-manorities, located under this city), during the times of the Reformed, the Dutch troubles, and under Prince William the Second, as stadtholder, the events that occurred here in this city are treated, and all the city’s common buildings, both spiritual and worldly, are shown in more than seventy copper plates, with their accompanying descriptions. By Dr. O. D. - Amsterdam, Jacob van Meurs, 1663 - (10) 1-48 (8) 49-456, 449-456, 449-456, 449-552 (=572) pp.

Contains frontispiece (loss of bottom corner and affixed on flyleaf) and arms + the 72 engravings and maps - all engravings (and defects) depicted
- Sloterdijk - small hole lower left in image, tear at bottom center fold
2. Slooten
3. Amsterveern
4. Amsterdam from the Y to view - loss of side edges, small tear at bottom center fold
5. Plan of Amsterdam, as it was before 1400 - tear to left into the image, 16 cm as well as a tear at lower right corner
6. Map of Amsterdam as it was in 1482 - loss of edges
7. Map of Amsterdam 1613
8. Copying of old and new rooying (roem?) of the city of Amsterdam
9. Two plates
10. Old city house - loss of lower left corner, restored tears along the margin
11. City Hall of former times - tear along the middle fold to two-thirds of the image
12. City Hall from the back - restored tear along the bottom margin, on verso a pen scribble, loss of corner
13. Old church
14. New church - tear at bottom center fold and tear at top center fold, piece out of bottom margin
15. New South chapel - tear at bottom margin
16. Old South chapel - tear from bottom into image, 15 cm
17. Zuiders Church
18. Wester Church
19. Noorder Church - tear at bottom center fold up to about 2 cm in image
20. French Church - 4 holes in inner margin of the center fold
21. English Church - tear at bottom in center fold. 3 cm
22. Lutheran church - small piece out of bottom margin
23. Regulators’ tower
24. Jan Roon gate’s tower - tear at bottom center fold, 2 cm
25. Haringpackers’ tower
26. Montelbaen’s tower - tear at bottom center fold, 2 cm
27. Gastfhuis (Guesthouse) - loss of corners down into image
28. Pesthuis - tear at bottom center fold into image, 15 cm
29. Mädchen orphan house - tear at bottom center fold, 2 cm
30. Boys’ orphan house - restored tear (17 cm) on verso at left half
31. Lazarus house - tear at bottom of left half into image, 14 cm
32. Spin house
33. Diacon’s orphan house
34. Waale orphan house - restored tear on verso bottom margin right half
35. New South house Sittenhuys
36. Aalmoesseniers house
37. Rasp house
38. Old men and women’s house
39. Dol house
40. House for widows and orphans waiting
41. Prosperous school
42. Schouburgh from the inside - tear at bottom center fold to cm in image
43. Hand bowyers’ drills, city magazine and bowyers’ drills = tear at bottom right half to 4 cm in image
44. City artillery- and corn houses - bite out of right lower margin
45. Clavemiers’ drills
46. East-Indies house
47. Prince’s court
48. City’s magazine
49. City’s magesyn
50. West-Indies house
51. Bank of lending
52. The weighing on St. Antonis milk (weighing on St. Antonis Mect)
53. Weighing on the dam
54. The beurs - brown stain on the right half
55. Corn beurs
56. The two old meat halls
57. Great fish market
58. Wester hall
59. Lords’ lodging - tear at bottom right half, up to 3 cm in image
60. New south Lords’ lodging
61. Old city inn
62. New city inn
63. New bridge
64. New bridge shown from the Y side
65. Schreyer’s tower
66. Haarlem Gate
67. St. Antonis gate - tear from middle left margin into image, 1 cm
68. Regulators’ gate
69. Holy Way gate
70. Raam gate
71. Saegh-Molens gate
72. Zeeburg

Reasonably good. Inner hinge slightly open at the back - the book block attached in the binding. The last gathering loosening a bit, edge of three sheets slightly frayed. Interior browned, here and there a spot, damp spot(s) under the corner of about 50 pages, black spots in the inner margin of 6 index sheets, about 10 pages smeared, pencil scribbles on 6 pages. Tear, 1 to 2 cm in the margin of about 15 pages. Small chips from margins of 8 leaves, and a large tear in page 449/450, about 16 cm. Some typesetting errors in paging (jump back twice to 449, 8 pages between 48 and 49 unnumbered). Three columns of the index later added by hand.