Pictura loquens

Author's name at head of title Added etched t.-p., signed by Schoonebeck. Etched t.-p. device. Port of Nicolaas Witsen, to whom work is dedicated Signatures: *⁸ A-Q⁸ Includes indexes Plates 3 & 4 of Getty c. 2 are cancels, the two plates having been reversed in printing Binding, c. 1: late 19th-century brown goatskin, tooled in gilt on boards, spine, edges of boards, and turn-ins. Page edges gilt. Ownership inscription dated June, 1841 of Fred. Reyroux, Cler., who notes that the book was a gift of the lawyer Samuel Fry. Ulrich Middeldorf's printed label Binding, c. 2: red straight-grain goatskin. Tooled in blind and gilt. Edges gilt. Ribbon placemarker. Ownership inscription in ink of Lisa & Leonard Baskin on back free endpaper, with pencilled additions: L. Goldschmidt, a price code, 1967; Baskin's initial B written in pencil after signature letter L; his printed labels for Fort Hill and Lurley Manor on front pastedown [16], 240, [16] p. : 16 cm. (8vo)