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Witsen, Nicolaes. Aeloude en hedendaegsche scheeps-bouw en bestier: Waer in wijtloopigh wert verhandelt, de wijze van Scheeps-timmeren, by Grieken en Romeynen: Scheeps-oeffeningen, Strijden, Tucht, Straffe, Wetten en gewoonten. Beneffens evenmatige grootheden van Schepen onses tijts, ontleet in alle hare deelen: Verschil van bouwen tusschen uitheemschen en onzen landaert: Indisch Vaertuygh: Galey-bouw: hedendaegsche Scheeps-plichten: Verrijckt met een reex verklaerde Zee-mans spreeck-woorden en benamingen. Doorgaens verciert met vele Kopere platen.. 1671
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Dutch
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Facsimile: Canaletto, Alphen aan den Rijn, 1979.
A. J. Roving in Model Shipwright, nos. 58, 60, 69, 70.
References: Private Collection*; Antiquariaat N. Israel*; The Mariners' Museum; R.C. Anderson: A Variation in Witsen, MM 12, 1924, p 220; W. Nijhoff: De anglofobie van N. Witsen in Het Boek, 1925.
From Anderson:
It would be difficult to over~stimate the importance of this book. Every part of a ship is described and usually drawn; while the design and building of a Dutch ship of some 6o guns is traced from the first lines to the finished and rigged vessel. Quite apart from its technical value it is a handsome volume, a large quarto of 578 pages printed in double columns 10 in. high with a great number of excellent plates. This edition is rare; but the second, printed in 1690, is far rarer. In fact, there are only three copies known at present and the very existence of such an edition was unknown or unnoted before i 913. Two copies are in Amsterdam, one in the University Library and the other in the new "Scheepvaart Museum." This second edition consists of 650 pages and contains much additional matter. It has a new title, Architectura Navalis et Regimen Nauticum.
From Brazilius:
A chaotic collection of knowledge on the art of shipbuilding of the day. Contains among much other valuable information detailed specifications for building a 134 foot pinnace. A great part of this book is devoted to the galleys and ships of the classical era and to boats from exotic countries. With an explanation of nautical terms and expressions on pp 481-516.
There exists at least four variants of this edition. In the fourth state of this edition the pages 473-478 describing the Dutch attack on the English fleet at Chatham and Medway in 1667 were replaced by a new text leaving out the pages 475-476. A unique and previously unrecorded variant printed by Christoffel Cunradus and with a different title page was seen at the Antiquariaat Nico Israel, Amsterdam, in 1992. A second edition was published in 1690 with the title Architectura Navalis. The 1678 edition mentioned by John Landwehr in his Romeyn de Hooghe (1645-1708) as Book Illustrator is probably a ghost edition mistaken for the first edition of the anonymous Hollandsche Scheepsbouw from that year.
The portrait of Witsen present in the Facsimile edition seems to be a later addition to the copy this edition was made from.
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4to, (16), 516, 540, (514) pp, 116 plates.
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Casparus Commelijn; Broer en Jan Appelaer
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Amsterdam
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