Hoorn, Nicolaas ten & Gerrevink, B. van

Wegwyzer, of korte Beschryvinge van de Stadt Amsterdam.

      Amsterdam, Erven van J. Ratelband en Compagnie 1737. 8°., 8 ff., 504 pp, 4 ff., with frontispiece and 27 folding engravings. Pappe d. Zt. Third, expanded edition of this complete guide to the streets and sights of early 18th century Amsterdam, accompanied by 28 engravings - two more plates than the original. Its 504 pages attempt to detail in full the city's "eerste opkomst, vergrootingen, en tegenwoordigen staat" as well as its "Graften, Straaten, Markten, Geestelyke en Waereldlyke Gebouwen, Legen Verblyfplaatzen van Veerscheepen, Markschuiten, Boodens, Posten, enz." The engravings include cosmopolitan and harbour scenes as well as more rural aspects of Amsterdam life. Unlike Commelin's Beschryvinge van Amsterdam (1665), which was also reprinted in the early 1700s, Hoorn's guide is a distinctly 18th century record of daily life in the capital, first published 48 years after Commelin's original publication. A translated version of the present work appears to have been very popular in France, running to numerous editions between 1720 and 1772 under the title of Le Guide ou nouvelle description d'Amsterdam. - Binding rubbed and bumped, inside just minor browning, else clean.