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Description of Den Briel in an attractive armorial binding

ALKEMADE, Cornelis van, and Pieter van der SCHELLING.
Beschryving van de Stad Briele, en den Lande van Voorn, behelzende, I. De Beschryving zelf... II. De Historie, Genealogie, en Successie van de Heeren, en Vrouwen van Voorn ... III. De Politike Regering, nevens de Regten, ... mitsgaders de Regtspleging ... omtrent het Jaar MCCCC in de Stad Briel, en 't Land van Voorn in gebruik geweest zynde. IV. De Privilegien, Octroyen ... betreffende de Stad Briele, en den Lande van Voorn... Te samen gesteld, en beschreven door Kornelis van Alkemade, en met eenige hoofddelen, byvoegselen, en aanteekeningen vermeerderd door Mr. P. van der Schelling.


Title-page printed in red and black with engraved printer's device, three half titles, one double-page plan of Den Briel, three folding engraved maps of different parts of Voorne, each c. 50 x 70,5 cm, one additional folding map (33 x 38 cm) of the southwestern part of South Holland.

Title-page printed in red and black with engraved printer's device, three half titles, one double-page plan of Den Briel, three folding engraved maps of different parts of Voorne, each c. 50 x 70,5 cm, one additional folding map (33 x 38 cm) of the southwestern part of South Holland.

Title-page printed in red and black with engraved printer's device, three half titles, one double-page plan of Den Briel, three folding engraved maps of different parts of Voorne, each c. 50 x 70,5 cm, one additional folding map (33 x 38 cm) of the southwestern part of South Holland.

Title-page printed in red and black with engraved printer's device, three half titles, one double-page plan of Den Briel, three folding engraved maps of different parts of Voorne, each c. 50 x 70,5 cm, one additional folding map (33 x 38 cm) of the southwestern part of South Holland.



Rotterdam, Philippus Losel, 1729. 2 parts in one vol. Folio. Contemporary marbled calf, gilt-stamped coat of arms of Den Briel on both covers, inner and outer turn-ins gilt, spine with raised bands, compartments richly gilt, black morocco author and title-label. Title-page printed in red and black with engraved printer's device, three half titles, one double-page plan of Den Briel, three folding engraved maps of different parts of Voorne, each c. 50 x 70,5 cm, one additional folding map (33 x 38 cm) of the southwestern part of South Holland. (28), 1-224, (8), 225-376; (8), 1-306, (20) pp.

Topographical and historical description of Den Briel on the island of Voorne in an attractive armorial binding. Cornelis van Alkemade (1654-1737) and his son-in-law Pieter van der Schelling (1691-1751) shared a passion for collecting coins, seals, official documents, autographs, and books. Van Alkemade also copied many historical documents. The present work reflects his collection on Den Briel, the city that will always be remembered for being the first to be captured by the Dutch in the Eighty Years' War in 1572. Van Alkemade gives the usual historical and geographical description, which describes among others the successive growth of the polders on the island of Voorne, and chronicles the history of the noble family that ruled Voorne. The three large folding maps show different parts of Voorne, with coats of arms and embellished cartouches along the borders or in the corners. The maps were made by H. v.d. Dyck, whereas J. Luyken, whose name is mentioned ("I. Luiken Fecit cum Aqua Forti"), probably drew the embellishments. The first map is dated 1701. They are the three general maps from Voorne. Caert-Boeck van alle de Dorpen, en Polders Gelegen inden Lande van Oost ende West Voorne, mitsgaders Over Flacquee Resorteerende onder 't Comptoir der Verpondingen 's Lands van Voorne.The fourth map, depicting the southwestern part of the province of South Holland, is found in the second part. It is a later addition, published by Tirion in Amsterdam in 1748. The present work is especially interesting because it contains the first published text of Jan Matthijsen's famous Rechtsboek of the city of Den Briel. It was probably written between 1400 and 1423, and is one of the oldest and most important sources of for the study of Dutch law, especially in the area of procedural law (NNBW I, col. 1314-1315). The second part of the work forms a collection of privileges and charters.

A very fine and large copy from the Six library.-(Outer hinges binding slightly damaged; brown stain lower margin first fifty pages part 2, bookblock towards end of second part loose in upper part).
Van Eeghen Collectie 47; Van Eeghen & V.d. Kellen 473; Nijhoff & V. Hattum 2; Donkersloot-de Vrij 247.

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