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The life of the Stadholder/King William III, partly illustrated by Jan & Caspar Luyken bound for the wealthy Amsterdam merchant Aaron de Joseph de Pinto (1710-1758)

BOSCH, Lambert van den.
Het leven en bedryf van Willem de Darde. Koning van  Groot-Brittannie, Vrankryk en Yrlant &c. &c. Prince  van Orangie &c. &c. &c. Sijn geboorte, jongelingschap, erf-Stadthouderschap en Koninglyke waardigheyd. Onder wiens heerschappy en bestieringe werden verhandelt, saken van Staat en Oorlog van den jare 1650. tot het uytgaen van 1693.

With engraved frontispiece with scenes of the life of William III by Caspar Luyken, folding engraved map of the battle of Landen (between Tienen and St. Truyden) on 29 July 1693, and 12 folding engraved plates, of which 6 by Jan Luyken, 1 by Caspar Luyken, and 4 by Daniel de la Feuille after Jan Luyken.

With engraved frontispiece with scenes of the life of William III by Caspar Luyken, folding engraved map of the battle of Landen (between Tienen and St. Truyden) on 29 July 1693, and 12 folding engraved plates, of which 6 by Jan Luyken, 1 by Caspar Luyken, and 4 by Daniel de la Feuille after Jan Luyken.

With engraved frontispiece with scenes of the life of William III by Caspar Luyken, folding engraved map of the battle of Landen (between Tienen and St. Truyden) on 29 July 1693, and 12 folding engraved plates, of which 6 by Jan Luyken, 1 by Caspar Luyken, and 4 by Daniel de la Feuille after Jan Luyken.

With engraved frontispiece with scenes of the life of William III by Caspar Luyken, folding engraved map of the battle of Landen (between Tienen and St. Truyden) on 29 July 1693, and 12 folding engraved plates, of which 6 by Jan Luyken, 1 by Caspar Luyken, and 4 by Daniel de la Feuille after Jan Luyken.

With engraved frontispiece with scenes of the life of William III by Caspar Luyken, folding engraved map of the battle of Landen (between Tienen and St. Truyden) on 29 July 1693, and 12 folding engraved plates, of which 6 by Jan Luyken, 1 by Caspar Luyken, and 4 by Daniel de la Feuille after Jan Luyken.



Amsterdam, Jan ten Hoorn, 1694. 4 parts in 2 vols. 4to. Contemporary marbled calf, spines ribbed and gilt in compartments, with gilt fillets and gilt coat-of-arms of Aaron de Joseph de Pinto in centre on sides. With engraved frontispiece with scenes of the life of William III by Caspar Luyken, folding engraved map of the battle of Landen (between Tienen and St. Truyden) on 29 July 1693, and 12 folding engraved plates, of which 6 by Jan Luyken, 1 by Caspar Luyken, and 4 by Daniel de la Feuille after Jan Luyken. (8), 432; 442, (6); (2), 180; 528, (8) pp.

Original edition of this biography of the illustrious Stadholder/King William III (and Maria Stuart) by Lambert van den Bosch, the former conrector of the Latin school at Dordrecht, who published this work anonymously, signing the title-page with his Latin initials 'L.S.' (= Lambertus Silvius = 'bos', forest).
Some of the Luyken plates were re-used in the biography of William III by Arnoldud Montanus, which was published by the same Jan ten Hoorn in Amsterdam in 1703 (Van Eeghen-Van der Kellen 388).

Binding:
The book is beautifully bound in the 'Fleur-de-Lis bindery' (or 'Heraldische Lelie-binderij') bindery at The Hague, for the wealthy Amsterdam merchant Aaron de Joseph de Pinto (1710-1758). De Pinto was of Jewish-Portuguese descent and a well-known book collector. He had his books bound mainly by two binders, one in Amsterdam (1743-65) and one in the Hague, the so-called 'Fleur-de-Lis bindery' (or 'Heraldische Lelie-binderij'), working for De Pinto during the years around 1735-40. The stamps, fillet, stamp with the monogram with his initials: 'A J D P', and the coat-of-arms of this bindery are used for the binding of our copy.

Good copy.- (Binding sl. bumped)
Van Eeghen-Van der Kellen 253; not in Klaversma & Hannema; ad. binding: Storm van Leeuwen, De 18e-eeuwse Haagse boekband, p. 76-79; p. 398, stamps XV, 36 a/b; Storm van Leeuwen, Dutch decorated bookbinding in the eighteenth century (2006), IIA, p. 111-12; III, p. 645 (top left), 717.

Related Subjects: 17th Century  Bindings  Biography  Dutch  History  Nobility 

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