Gottfried,Joh. Lodew. (ie Johann Ludwig Gottfried)
Title
HISTORISCHE KRONYCK [HISTORICAL CHRONICLE], vervattende een nauwkeurige en volkomene beschrijvingh der aldergedenckwaerdighste geschiedenissen des weerelds, van den aenvangh der scheppingh tot op 't jaer Christi 1576. Op nieuws vertaeld na den derden vermeerderden druck, met byvoegingh van de Historie der Reformatie in Duytschland: nevens een breed vervolgh tsedert 't jaer 1576 tot op 't sluyten der Europische Vreede te Rijswijck, anno 1697 door Simon de Vries.
PlacePub
Leiden
Publisher
Pieter vander Aa
Date
1702
Illustrations
Four engraved titlepages +engraved dedication plate + one frontis portrait +28 plates + over 592 text engravings mostly after Matthaus Merian.
Description
4 VOLUMES of which first two 421mm x255 and last two 342 x214mm. Disbound but ready for casing into covers, sewn onto 7 raised bands. Text in Dutch. First Titlepage with 177x132mm copperplate scene + Engraved dedication plate + full page portrait of Simon DeVries by J.van Vienen +[4]pp To Reader + 310 medallion portraits of famous people including Luther, Erasmus, Sappho, Socrates, Aristotle, Hannibal, Julius Caesar, Kings & Queens incl. Queen Elizabeth and Turkish Sultans +XIXpp short descriptions of each figure +1022 Columns (ie 511 pages); Half-title to Part 2 +Titlepage with repeat of copperplate & 1023-2004 columns + [57]pp index); Titlepage to Part 3 with repeated copperplate +[4]pp To Reader + 180 portraits on 9 plates + LXpp of description +1484 columns (ie 742pp) + [62]pp index); Half-title to Part 4 + Titlepage with repeated illustration +1640 columns (820pp) +[76]pp index. First TP & dedication leaves browned & last leaf repaired to back (no loss); 2nd TP cut back at fore-edge with no loss of text; 3rd TP browned with inner edge paper loss just affecting 1cm of outer frame line of illustration and is pasted to 1st leaf of To Reader, obscuring left margin & beginning of some words, with small break-through of paper at the plate mark (no loss); last half-title & TP have a clean tear from gutter edge without loss. The copperplates show historical scenes of battles, naval engagements, sieges, natural disasters (volcanic eruptions, floods, famines, plagues, earthquakes), also interior domestic scenes, court & church councils, atrocities of war and the inquistion with torture, burnings, birth monstrosities, the working of a printing press, gambling etc. Illustrations measure 100x150mm, one plate (Ccc2) is a cancel pasted on. Some foxing/browning throughout but paper still strong, about 15 leaves with marginal edge repairs and 2 cut short at the bottom margin (no loss of text), a few other tears. Copious side notes enable quick navigation of Dutch text. Part 1 covers to 1000AD, Part 2 to 1576, Part 3 to 1637, Part 4 to 1697. *A monumental World History up to 1697 with fascinating illustrations.
Booknumber
V70601
Price
Price: GBP 480.00 or USD 888.00
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