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Bound by the most important binder of The Hague of the second half of the 18th-century
HEEMSKERK, Johan van.Batavische Arcadia, waar in: onder 't loof-werk van liefkooserye, gehandelt werdt, van den oorsprong van 't Oudt Batavien, vryheidt der voorige en volgende bataviers, vrye zee, zee-vonden, vinders van verborgen schatten, verbeurten van goederen, uytperssen der waarheid door pynigen, onheyl van de lankwilligheidt der regtspleegingen, met de oorsaaken van dien, en behulpmiddelen daar tegen; mitsgaders van andere diergelyke ernstige saaken meer. Dezen laatste druk met fraaye figuuren vermeerdert, en een verduitsching van alle de uytheemsche taalen.      Amsterdam, Anton & Adrianus Schoonenburg, 1751. 8vo. Contemporary elaborately gilt marbled calf, spine ribbed and gilt with floral, acorn, and crown ornaments and ochre title label lettered in gold, covers tooled with borders with shells, central piece within another gilt border with cornerpieces topped with acorns, g.e., marbled endpapers (CHRISTIAAN MICKE, The Hague). With richly engraved allegorical frontispiece by A. van Laan after J. Onkruyt, large folding view of Batavia, and 4 folding engraved plates. (16), 656, (44 + 3 with notes to the binder & catalogue of books of Schooneburg) pp. According to the publisher, the last revised edition of the famous "Batavische Arcadia" by Johan van Heemskerck. According to De Vries, the present is the eighth and most complete edition. The last of the quotations in Latin or foreign languages are now translated into Dutch, and the spelling and language is modernized. This collection of poems & short stories and historical texts was intended to praise the Dutch Republic's struggle for freedom during the 17th century and was first published in 1637. The book is illustrated with 5 folding engraved plates, including a fine large view of Batavia in the Dutch East-Indies. Our copy is elegantly bound by the well-known and important Christiaan Micke, at The Hague, who was active here at around 1740-1787. In the course of the 1750's and 1760's he was the most important binder of The Hague. Very fine copy.- (Top and lower part of spine sl. dam.).
Buisman 774; Waller 691; De Vries 19; Scheurleer, Liedboeken, p. 159; cf. Sale Cat. Coll. Buisman 369 (9th ed. of 1756). Binding: Storm van Leeuwen, De 18e eeuwse Haagse boekband, pp. 268-295, cf. illustrations II, IX (rolls on covers), 33, 35 (acorn cornerpieces) & 97 (crown on spine); Storm van Leeuwen, Dutch Decorated Bookbinding in the Eighteenth Century, IIa, pp. 137-144 & 711.
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