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LE CLERC, Jean

Geschiedenissen der Vereenigde Nederlanden

Amsterdam
Z. Châtelain
1730

€1.200 - €1.800

3 vols in-folio (39,5 x 24,5 cm), 3 different allegorical engraved title-pages (Picart e.a.), 3 title-vignettes, folding map of the Netherlands, 52 double-page or folding plates by J. Luyken, C. Decker, B. Picart etc. (battles, executions, looting, torture, a famous shipwreck...) and 54 full-page portraits. Splendid large paper copy, sumptuously bound in very fine mottled calf bindings, spine very richly gilt, with gilt borders and central ornaments, spines gilt, blue edges

Ref. Haitsma Mulier/v.d. Lem 110-I. Ex libris Pauli Menso. Exemplaar in prachtige Nederlandse spiegelbanden. Ref. Storm van Leeuwen, Dutch Decorated Bookbinding 18th c., IIB, p. 641: Jan Dane and the Satisfactie Bindery, Middelburg