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Le Guide Ou nouvelle description d'Amsterdam,
Enseignant aux Voyageurs, et aux Negoçians Sa Splendeur, son Commerce, & la Description de ses Edifices, Ruës, Ports, Canaux, Ponts, Ecluses, &c. &c. La connoissance des Poids, des Mésures, des Aunages & du Change des principales Villes de l'Europe, le Reglement de la Banque & du Lombart: Le Tarif des Droits d'Entrée & de Sortie des Marchandises de France, d'Espagne, de Hollande, de Liège, &c. Le départ des Postes, des Chariots & des Barques. Nouvelle Edition augmentée considerablement.
Publisher: Amsterdam, chez Paul de la Feuille, 1720
Stock code: 30406
Price: £800 Currency Conversion
Third, enlarged and best edition, with running text for the first time instead of dialogues and with 20 instead of 17 plates, of this mercantile guide to Amsterdam. The plates show the most important buildings of the town, such as the town hall (now the palace on the Dam), the stock exchange, the main churches, the four city gates, the buildings of the Dutch East India Company, the Portuguese Synagogue, etc. The flag plates are from Fokkens's L'Art de Blason. The second part, with divisional title dated 1718 and separate pagination ("Tarif general des Provinces Unies…"), lists import and export tariffs imposed by the United Provinces, as well as tariff rates imposed at the Sont, the entrance to the Baltic, and the last ordinances on the subject, dated 1652 and 1655. The Guide was first published in 1701, most copies being bound with an edition of the Tarif of 1707; a second edition is printed in 1709.
Octavo (166 × 105 mm), in 2 parts as issued. Rebound in antique-style panelled calf, red morocco label, date in gilt at foot, edges uncut. 20 double-page folding engraved plates, and 8 folding engraved plates printed on both sides of Dutch and European flags. Contents lightly browned in places, a very good copy.
