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The North Sea Canal and waterways in and around Amsterdam 14. [NORTH SEA CANAL]. [Collection of works relating to the Noordzeekanaal, the Amsterdamsche Kanaal-Maatschappij and various waterways in and around Amsterdam]. Amsterdam, The Hague and Haarlem, 1827–1880. € 3250 Collection of 21 books and pamphlets (plus 2 duplicates) and a large folding chromolithographed map, relating to the Noordzeekanaal (North Sea Canal), the Amsterdamsche Kanaal-Maatschappij (Amsterdam Canal Company) and various waterways in and around Amsterdam, including the IJ and the canals in the city itself. Also with an unissued 1868 bond with separate printed conditions, from the Amsterdamsche Kanaal-Maatschappij. When the Noordhollandsch Kanaal (North Holland Cannal), built in 1824, wasn’t any longer able to handle the growing boat traffic from the North Sea to Amsterdam, it was decided to construct a new canal reaching the North Sea in IJmuiden, the Noordzeekanaal. This concession for this canal was given to the Amsterdamsche Kanaal-Maatschappij and it was constructed between 1865–1876. To raise capital for this project the company issued bonds. All in good condition, but some wrappers damaged. The bond and its conditions with some minor tears and folds. Full list of contents available on request. 3 not in P.H. Kemper, Repertorium der literatuur van den waterstaat van Nederland (1888).
1598 ordinance for clearing trees around windmills, signed by Johan van Oldenbarnevelt 15. OLDENBA R NEV ELT, Johan van. [Ordinance forbidding the planting of trees around windmills in the Land van Arkel (in the southwestern corner of the province of Holland) and requiring the removal of existing trees]. The Hague, 14 December 1598. Manuscript document in Dutch in brown ink on the skin side of a single piece of sheepskin parchment (36 × 48 cm, folded to 14 × 19 cm). € 2950 Original official ordinance by the knighthood, noblemen and cities of the province of Holland representing the States of Holland (signed by the great statesman Johan van Oldenbarnevelt), giving a detailed picture of the careful balance that had to be struck between individual rights and general good in maintaining the reclaimed Dutch polder lands in the 16th century, in this case concerning water control in the Land van Arkel, a region around the towns of Arkel and Gorinchem and some villages and polder lands to their north and east. The officials had already taken all measures they could independently, improving the existing windmills and building new ones to pump the rising water up into the rivers, but the windmills were unable to perform optimally because willows, orchards and other planted trees on private properties around the windmills were interfering with the wind. The request was granted by the present ordinance. It gave them the authority to forbid further planting within 50 roeden (about 200 metres) of a windmill and to demand the removal of trees already planted within that distance. Although the document itself explicitly refers to the attached seal, no trace of it survives except for the slit cut through the two layers of parchment below the text. The document is in very good condition, with only very minor wear along the folds. An unusually informative ordinance for clearing trees around windmills.
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Page 3 and 4: Two masterpieces of Dutch hydraulic
Page 5 and 6: Finely engraved wall map of the Rij
Page 7 and 8: Monograph on rivers, torrents and i
Page 9 and 10: Fine copy of splendid hydraulic eng
Page 11 and 12: Proposal for reinforcing the dikes
Page 13 and 14: Collection of 6 maps of the Beemste
Page 15: Managing water flow and levels in r
Page 19 and 20: 1784 copy of a 1568 manuscript map
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