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The imaginary adventures of two sisters on their way Jerusalem

BOLSWERT, Boetius A.
Voyage de deux soeurs Colombelle et Volontairette vers  leur bien aimé en la cité de Jerusalem: Contenant plusieurs  incidens arrivez pendant leur voyage. Nouvelle Edition, corrigée & chatiée selon le stile  du tems & enrichie de figures en taille douce.

Engraved frontispiece, engraved vignette on title showing the two sisters sitting in the foreground with a view of Jerusalem in the background, 27 full-page engraved plates. 

Engraved frontispiece, engraved vignette on title showing the two sisters sitting in the foreground with a view of Jerusalem in the background, 27 full-page engraved plates. 

Engraved frontispiece, engraved vignette on title showing the two sisters sitting in the foreground with a view of Jerusalem in the background, 27 full-page engraved plates. 

Engraved frontispiece, engraved vignette on title showing the two sisters sitting in the foreground with a view of Jerusalem in the background, 27 full-page engraved plates. 

Engraved frontispiece, engraved vignette on title showing the two sisters sitting in the foreground with a view of Jerusalem in the background, 27 full-page engraved plates. 



Liège, J.F. Broncart, 1734. Small 8vo. Contemporary marbled calf, gilt & ribbed spine with gilt red title label, marbled endpapers, red sprinkled edges. Engraved frontispiece, engraved vignette on title showing the two sisters sitting in the foreground with a view of Jerusalem in the background, 27 full-page engraved plates.  (6), 262, (8) pp.

Third edition, in French, from the Southern Netherlands, of a famous imaginary voyage, telling of the pelgrimage of two sisters, Colombelle and Volontairette, to Jesusalem, the one sister lucky and happy, the other sister only meeting with misadventure and accidents. It is mainly printed in Roman type with the comments in Italics, and richly illustrated with Boetius à Bolswert's (1550-1633) allegorical plates in copper-engravings showing the strange people and accidents the sisters encountered.
The book  is dedicated to the young ladies and its language is brought up to date. The approbation for the French translation is dated 1636. The first edition in French was published in Antwerp, 1636. The second in Brussels, 1684. The book remained popular in both the Northern and the Southern Netherlands for centuries, and was also popular in France.

Good copy.- (Some browning throughout).
Funck, Le livre Belge à gravures, 282 (this ed.); Muller, Populaire prozaschrijvers, 589-591 (editions in Dutch); Waller 295-299 (editions in Dutch).

Related Subjects: Holy Land  Popular Books  Religion  Travel & Voyages 

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