johan gribius (2 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Fourth volume pp. 238 + appendix pp. 103. Bound in original vellum, shows agewear and soiling. Peeling endpapers, writing in the front and back, some contemporary. Engraved portrait of Michael Thomas, maps of 6 cities in the Netherlands, double-page frontispiece of the monarch. Blackletter text. A rare volume detailing the Franco-Dutch War and the Third Anglo-Dutch War written and published contemporary to them.

The first volume of a 12-volume historical account of the Third Anglo-Dutch War (1672-1674); written by the Dutch physician Johan Gribius (d. 1685), translated by Johann Christoph Beer (1638-1712). The copy features a double-page engraved frontispiece/title (its allegorical meaning is explained at beginning of the book) and a complete set of 16 copperplates: a folding plate with a vista of Utrecht (facing p. 99), a vista of Schenkenschans (facing p. 95) and 14 ground plans of fortified cities and fortresses in what is today Germany and the Netherlands: Orsoy (facing p. 68), Rheinberg (p. 69), Wesel (p. 74), Rees (p. 80), Emmerich (p. 81), Groenlo (p. 83), Arnhem (p. 93), Tiel (p. 94), Deventer (p. 107), Doesburg (p. 113), Zutphen (p. 113), Nijmegen (p. 142), Fort Crevecoeur (p. 146) and Groningen (p. 174). Fraktur typeface; pages are decorated with headpiece and tailpiece. Both front and back endpaper are covered with very old notes written with pen; some pages contain very old pen marginalia and underlining; the free front endpaper contains an ownership note, dated 9 May 1699. /// Parchment binding; hardback, [12]+306+[2] pp., engraved title + 16 plates, 12° (8 x 14 cm), cover slightly yellowed, backstrip with remnants of paint (?), corners slightly bumped, back board bumped and deformed, edges yellowed, top edge darkened, engraved title yellowed, slightly worn and detached, with two bookworm traces, pages yellowed, ca 20 leaves and two plates with tiny bookworm trace, folding Utrecht plate creased, with tear on fold, other signs of wear and age are rare (tiny chips or tears, text not affected), condition: good Book Language/s: German.