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Very nice volume on the Low Countries in the famous Elzevier series of the 'Republics'

HEGENITIUS, Gotfridus, Abraham ORTELIUS & Johannes VIVIANUS.
Itinerarium Frisio-Hollandicum, et abr. Ortelii Itinerarium Gallo-Brabanticum. In quibus quae visu, quae lectu digna.

Title printed in red and black, with the Elzevier printer's device, some woodcut tailpieces.

Leiden, Ex officina Elzeviriana (Bonaventura and Abraham), 1630. 18mo. Contemporarry vellum with turned edges. Title printed in red and black, with the Elzevier printer's device, some woodcut tailpieces. 177(178), (8), 183-343 (344), (16) pp.

Original edition of Gotfridus Hegenitius's description of his journey to Groningen, Friesland and Holland during the years 1626-7. Hegenitius (ca.1597 - after 1646) was born in Silesia. Before he matriculated at Leiden University to study Law in 1627, he made this journey starting from Hamburg to Defzijl, Groningen, Leeuwarden, Franeker, Harlingen, Dokkum, Stavoren, Enkhuisen, Hoorn, Alkmaar, Amsterdam, Haarlem, Leiden, The Hague, Rotterdam Dordrecht and other Frisian and Dutch cities. On his travels he recorded many texts of epitaphs and inscriptions, mirroring one of the main interests of the time. He dedicated his description to his fellow students Arnold van der Mijle and Frederick Lodewijk van Aitzema, dated Leiden, July 1628 while the three of them were living in the house of the famous Leiden professor and Neo-Latin poet Caspar Barlaeus.
Elzeviers decided to add the well-known travel report of the famous cartographer Abraham Ortelius and Johannes Vivianus of their archeological, cultural and historical journey through the Southern Low Countries and Luxembourg, up to Nancy and, on their way back, to Koblenz and Frankfurt in Germany during the late summer of 1575, which was first published in 1584 by Plantin at Antwerp. The contents is conceived as a letter from Ortelius and Vivianus to Gerard Mercator, personal friend and cartographic collegue of Ortelius. An extensive article on this description, together with a map of the itinerary and further literature was published by Klaus Schmidt-Ott in 1998.

Both works together were meant to form an interesting volume on the Northern and Southern Low Countries in the famous Elzevier series of the 'res Republicae' (the 'Republics'): descriptions of various countries.

Very good copy, with ownership's entries on the verso of the front cover: 'B. de Backer Gandensis' and on the last page 'Keukemans'. On the title-page the then owner of the book has annotated that he has read the work on 13 July 1713.

Willems 330; Goldschmid, Elzevier Pr., p. 67-8; NNBW 8 (1930), c. 786-7; Klaus Schmidt-Ort, 'The Itinerarium per nonnullas Galliae Belgicae partes by Abraham Ortelius and Johannes Vivianus', in: Abraham Ortelius and the first atlas. Essays commemorating the quadricentennial of his death (1598-1998). (HES Publ. 1998), p. 363-77.

Related Subjects: Belgicana Cartography Friesland Groningen Netherlands

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