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HOYNCK van PAPENDRECHT, C.P.

Vita Viglii ab Aytta Zuichemi ab ipso Viglio scripta ... nec non Joachimi Hopperi et Joannis Baptistae Tassii opera historica

Hagae Comitum
Gerard Block
1743

€180 - €300

6 dln. in 3 vol. in-4°, [66]-348-[1], [12]-pp. 345-868-[13-1 bl.], 414-[13], [2]-600-[1-1 bl.], [4]-438-[1-1 bl.], [4]-518-[149] pp. Each part with a title printed in red and black, with an engraved title vignette, with 2 portraits: one of Viglius ab Aytta, the other one of Joachim Hopper. Small marginal wormhole in vol. 2. Contemporary blind-tooled vellum bindings, slightly soiled, titles in ink on spine

Cf. Haitsma Mulier/ van der Lem 238. First edition of this historical work, collected and annotated by Hoynck van Papendrecht (1686-1753). Also known as 'Analecta Belgica'. Contains a biography of the Frisian jurist and statesman Viglius Zuichemius ab Aytta (1507-1577)

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