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LOT 401
SOLD €950,00

[Maritime history. Very rare signal book] Afbeelding van alle de generale zeinen,

die gedaan en geobserveerd werden in 's lands vloot, zoo in het zeilen en ankeren by daag en nagt, als ten tijde van gevegt; met de beteekenis van ieder signaal, en aanwyzing der plaatszen daar dezelve in de origineele Hollandsze en Engelsze zein-boeken te vinden zyn (...). Te zamen gesteld (...) door N. Govertz, schryver in 's lands-dienst ter zee. Amsterdam, voor den autheur, 1746, (8),(10) letterpress p., with 142 illustrations (including intertitles) on 71 engraved plates with the specific signal handcoloured and the reverses with letterpress text, and with "Aanhangzel voor particuliere zeinen" containing 12 illustrations (6 different ones) on 6 uncoloured, engraved plates (unfinished, here unused), in contemporary cardboard lacking the spine, small 8vo.

Approved copy with signature in pen of Govertz at the end of the Voor-berigt. Very rare pocket signal book; from 1950 it appeared only rarely on the market. The intertitles are: "Generale Zeynen by Daag" (plate 1-57), "Zeynen in Mist" (plate 58-61, signals with cannon fire) and "Zeynen by Nagt" (other, with a combination of fire beacons and cannon fire).

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