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Hardcover. Etat : Fair. No Dust Jacket. First Edition. [iv], 1-156, 169-398 pp (397/398 in manuscript facs with info from 399 included at the bottom of 398, missing 400 which is an advert). Lacking 157-168. With 24 maps and plates, including fold map of the country, partially coloured folding plate of coins and large folding map at the rear of Rotterdam. 12 mo. With an unusual binding repaired long ago with old paper manuscript (in English) on the spine, brown marbled paper boards. Engraved title page. Extensive marginalia and commentary by the Reverend John Archambo Argles. (1761â"1848), an Anglican clergyman whose bookplate is in the front. This is a damaged copy of a surprisingly very scarce book â" the 1816 first edition of an English language guidebook to the United Netherlands. Worldcat lists only 8 holdings, two in the US, one in the UK, the remaining 5 in the Netherland libraries only. Only one auction record in the last 100 years. It is offered here principally due to the fascinating and voluminous handwritten commentary of a contemporary British visitor to the Netherlands: Rev. Argles, a Cambridge-educated clergyman from Kent who liberally augmented the book with his own rather idiosyncratic observations as he travelled throughout the country. It is thus an important and quite captivating personalized tour of the Netherlands, particularly interesting in that it was conducted during a very early period shaped by the Napoleonic Wars, which only recently had been made more accessible to non-commercial or military travellers. As such, it illustrates the very beginning of a new and renewed phase of European travel and tourism, here coupled with extensive handwritten commentary, offering a valuable insight into the attitudes of one British traveller of that era. The commentary may be compared with Seth Stevensonâs Journal of a tour through part of France, Flanders, and Holland, (1817) althoughi in this case, given the somewhat cranky commentator, not necessarily suitable for publication! Argles arrived in Rotterdam on May 28, 1822, and left in October of that same year. During that period he used this book to keep track of his expenses, make notes on what impressed him about what he was seeing, (and to make corrections to the publisherâs grammar!) His trip may have been part of a Grand Tour, since he also mentions previous sojourns in Franch and Switzerland, apparently in 1814, although, given the era, this would have been fairly early for a post-Napoleonic tour. Interestingly, Argles seems to have taken quite a dislike to the Dutch, at one point saying âOne might almost imagine that the Brain is the other side upward, for all they do is inverted, or the reverse of other People.â Perhaps part of his dislike was because of the Dutch participation with Napoleonâs armies early in the wars, although they later joined with the British. And in fact, at one point he laments the French incursion into Amsterdam where he noted one neighbourhood: â.only a few Years since covered with Streets of Manufacturersâ Dwellings - all pulled down by the reforming French for the Lead of the Gutters â" Oh France, France, what have you to say â" for I may safely say that to this day the Code Napoleon is a fearful Scourge.âAlthough he put his notes where he willed (and oddly, didn't start his notes until part way through the volume), his favourite spot was the back of the maps where he often filled the page top to bottom, side to side. In Amsterdam he said of the Palace, âA very fine Building with some errors in point of Taste.â He also mentioned âcharming weather giving all the way a most sublime view of a tremendous fire at Amsterdam, which turned out to be a sad destruction of one the largest Churches.â After a visit to the Academy of Sciences he commented, âBoth magnificent - the Philo & Mechanic Divisions very superior - the most powerful Magnet & electrifying apparatus in the world.â He kept track of his expenses noting a âDelightful Week at Haarlemâ where he recorded his expenses for the organ (he frequently mentioned organ concerts in his notes), âflower rootsâ (he also discussed various Dutch bulb varieties throughout the book) and a âCurious little dogâ that he bought â" presumably a decorative object of some kind. In the neighbourhood of The Hague he complained he was unable to see the Gallery because the Prince of Prussia and family were there for sea-bathing. He also commented on the âhabitual errorâ of the Dutch of throwing âso much labour on the Sex, while the Men are lazy and unwillingâ¦it is not uncommon to see the Women at early Day, weeding, foraging, sweeping & scrubbing the Streets with Water which they fetch with the labour of Agnes, while the lazy husbands are sitting & looking on at the Door, smoking Pipe after Pipe.â He complained that linen was never boiled but âdabbed about with Cold Water!â He also huffed that the university at Utrecht could hardly consider itself a real university since it contained hardly any English books. Even with his sense of English superiority, he stil found many things to admire. He described the residents of Gouda meeting his boat â.all pretty flowers & with Dutch dress & ornament, as far beyond anything I ever saw, that I would recommend any soul living, who is willing to be happy, to start from Rotterdam to Gouda on a Sunday afternoon in Summer.â Though his handwriting is quite neat, it is often very small and he was wont to switch subjects without warning, so that context sometimes has to be puzzled out. The Rev. Argles was opinionated, but his descriptions and observations of a vanished world are evocative and fascinating. Condition of the book is fair. The repaired binding and book block are splitting and the spine has been âbandagedâ by us with archival Japanese paper and wheat paste (all reversible) to hold it together, ready for a new owner who might want a more substantial permanent repair. As mentioned, some pages are missing and oth.…

Hard Cover. Etat : Fair. Original hardcover binding with all 25 plates present (The frontispiece and 24 other number plates). Book is held together with a wrap to help preserve the binding. Original hand color by Jan Willem Pieneman. All plates are dated 1811 with the address of the London printer Colnaghi & Co underneath the address of Maaskamp except the following: Plate 1 which is dated 1811 with only the address of Maaskamp; Plates 21-24 are undated and only have the Maaskamp address. Laking the description of plate #24. Overall in FAIR condition and with all PLATES present. Size: Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. Hardcover.…