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First edition of the collected poems of one of the best Dutch poets at the turn of the Seventeenth century

ROTGANS, Lucas.
Poëzy, van verscheide mengelstoffen; met konstplaaten versiert.

With allegorical engraved frontispiece including the portrait of the author, and printer's device by M. Pool; armorial head-piece with the coat of arms of the dedicatee Joan Baron van Welderen; 45 engraved text illustrations in cartouches (ca. 55 a 115 mm) for the 'Zedelessen uit de oude Verdichtzelen' (pp. 1-132) by J. Folkema, 2 engraved tail-pieces by Schijnvoet for the tragedies 'Eneas & Turnus' and 'Scilla', and 2 full-page engraved plates for the 'Boerekermis' (pp. 633-80); woodcut initials and tail-pieces.

With allegorical engraved frontispiece including the portrait of the author, and printer's device by M. Pool; armorial head-piece with the coat of arms of the dedicatee Joan Baron van Welderen; 45 engraved text illustrations in cartouches (ca. 55 a 115 mm) for the 'Zedelessen uit de oude Verdichtzelen' (pp. 1-132) by J. Folkema, 2 engraved tail-pieces by Schijnvoet for the tragedies 'Eneas & Turnus' and 'Scilla', and 2 full-page engraved plates for the 'Boerekermis' (pp. 633-80); woodcut initials and tail-pieces.

With allegorical engraved frontispiece including the portrait of the author, and printer's device by M. Pool; armorial head-piece with the coat of arms of the dedicatee Joan Baron van Welderen; 45 engraved text illustrations in cartouches (ca. 55 a 115 mm) for the 'Zedelessen uit de oude Verdichtzelen' (pp. 1-132) by J. Folkema, 2 engraved tail-pieces by Schijnvoet for the tragedies 'Eneas & Turnus' and 'Scilla', and 2 full-page engraved plates for the 'Boerekermis' (pp. 633-80); woodcut initials and tail-pieces.

With allegorical engraved frontispiece including the portrait of the author, and printer's device by M. Pool; armorial head-piece with the coat of arms of the dedicatee Joan Baron van Welderen; 45 engraved text illustrations in cartouches (ca. 55 a 115 mm) for the 'Zedelessen uit de oude Verdichtzelen' (pp. 1-132) by J. Folkema, 2 engraved tail-pieces by Schijnvoet for the tragedies 'Eneas & Turnus' and 'Scilla', and 2 full-page engraved plates for the 'Boerekermis' (pp. 633-80); woodcut initials and tail-pieces.

With allegorical engraved frontispiece including the portrait of the author, and printer's device by M. Pool; armorial head-piece with the coat of arms of the dedicatee Joan Baron van Welderen; 45 engraved text illustrations in cartouches (ca. 55 a 115 mm) for the 'Zedelessen uit de oude Verdichtzelen' (pp. 1-132) by J. Folkema, 2 engraved tail-pieces by Schijnvoet for the tragedies 'Eneas & Turnus' and 'Scilla', and 2 full-page engraved plates for the 'Boerekermis' (pp. 633-80); woodcut initials and tail-pieces.



Leeuwarden, François Halma, 1715. 4to. Contemporary vellum, spine with the name of the author written in ink. With allegorical engraved frontispiece including the portrait of the author, and printer's device by M. Pool; armorial head-piece with the coat of arms of the dedicatee Joan Baron van Welderen; 45 engraved text illustrations in cartouches (ca. 55 a 115 mm) for the 'Zedelessen uit de oude Verdichtzelen' (pp. 1-132) by J. Folkema, 2 engraved tail-pieces by Schijnvoet for the tragedies 'Eneas & Turnus' and 'Scilla', and 2 full-page engraved plates for the 'Boerekermis' (pp. 633-80); woodcut initials and tail-pieces. 14, (62), 680 pp.

First edition of the collected poems by one of the most well-known Dutch poets at the turn of the seventeenth century Lukas Rotgans (1653-1710). There are two issues of this edition, another with a slip of paper pasted on the imprint: 'sold by J. Oosterwijk, Amsterdam'. A second edition appeared in 1735.
The work is dedicated to Joan Baron van Welderen, member of the States General on behalf od Gelderland by Rotgans' brother-in-law A.H. de Salengre Jun. (pp. 3-14), followed by the preface by the publisher F. Halma to the reader, dated Leeuwarden, 15 Sept. 1714 including a biography of the author (pp. (1-43)), epitaphs for Rotgans by F. Halma, D. Smout, Joh. Schröder, A.H. de Salengre Jun. and H. van den Burg (pp. (44-54)), laudatory poems by H. van den Berg and F. Halma (pp. (55-58)), and contents (pp. (59-62)).
The text contains Rotgans' poems, including his 'Zedelessen uit de Oude verdichtzelen' (pp. 1-132), Mengeldichten (pp. 133-184), Landtgedichten en Eergedichten' (pp. 251-78), 'Huwelyszangen' (pp. 327-90), 'Lykzangen", including epitaphs for Joan. Georg. Graevius, Joan Huydekoper (pp. 391-450), his famous tragedies 'Eneas en Turnus' (pp. 451-538), and 'Scilla' (pp. 539-632), and 'Boerekermis (pp. 633-80).

Good copy with the bookplate of H.J. de Soeten.
NNBW X, cols. 836-7. 

Related Subjects: 18th Century  Dutch  Poetry 

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