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GROTIUS, Hugo.Annales et Historiae de rebus Belgicis.     Amst., J. Blaeu, 1658. 8vo. 18th century marbled calf, spine ribbed and gilt decorated, with red title-label, with decorative gilt borders on sides and large gilt decorated central coat of arms of the city of Delft with underneath a richly decorated letter Y surrounded by the legend 'per angusta ad augusta', remnants of 2 green ties. With large woodcut printer's device on title, and full-page engraved portrait of the author. (16), 567, (25) pp. Rare first octavo edition of the history of The Netherlands from the years 1555 till 1609, by the most famous and the most universal of Dutch humanist scholars, Hugo de Groot, or Grotius (1585-1645), historian, poet, lawyer, and politician. Hugo de Groot was born and also buried at Delft, and a stock of copies of the present work must have long been kept for use of Delft prize-bindings, as the work was first published, posthumously by his two sons, Cornelis and Pieter, in 1657 in folio, and the present edition in octavo only a year later, in 1658, while our prize-binding and prize-certificate are from the late 18th century. But our copy could also be an example of the repeated use of the same school-prize copy. The letter Y and the motto "per angusta ad augusta" symbolized the choice people could make. The Y really was a simple map of human life, with at the cross-roads a choice to go the left, a wide road but a little bent at the top so one fell off, or to go to the right, a narrow road but solid at the top so one found fame and satisfaction. Fine copy, with the prize-certificate of the Latin School at Delft, the prize rewarded to Henricus Theodorus Hoogeveen, signed by the Rector Janus Hoogeveen and others, and dated 1796.- (Binding sl. rubbed, spine very sl. dam.).
Ter Meulen-Diermanse 743; cf. De Prijs is het Bewijs 47 (Delft-binding, in vellum, with the same coat of arms, but with a different binding-decoration and without the prize-certificate).
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