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Panegyric on the river Rotte

SMITS, Dirk.
De Rottestroom.

With engraved folding portrait of the dedicatee Willem Carel Hendrik Friso by P. Tanjé after G. Sanders (1750), an allegorical frontispiece, vignette on the title-page (1737), armorial head-piece, 3 allegorical full-page plates and one folding plate after Jacob Kortebrant illustrating the course of the river Rotte, all skilfully engraved by Jan Punt (1747).

With engraved folding portrait of the dedicatee Willem Carel Hendrik Friso by P. Tanjé after G. Sanders (1750), an allegorical frontispiece, vignette on the title-page (1737), armorial head-piece, 3 allegorical full-page plates and one folding plate after Jacob Kortebrant illustrating the course of the river Rotte, all skilfully engraved by Jan Punt (1747).

With engraved folding portrait of the dedicatee Willem Carel Hendrik Friso by P. Tanjé after G. Sanders (1750), an allegorical frontispiece, vignette on the title-page (1737), armorial head-piece, 3 allegorical full-page plates and one folding plate after Jacob Kortebrant illustrating the course of the river Rotte, all skilfully engraved by Jan Punt (1747).

With engraved folding portrait of the dedicatee Willem Carel Hendrik Friso by P. Tanjé after G. Sanders (1750), an allegorical frontispiece, vignette on the title-page (1737), armorial head-piece, 3 allegorical full-page plates and one folding plate after Jacob Kortebrant illustrating the course of the river Rotte, all skilfully engraved by Jan Punt (1747).



Rotterdam, P. Losel, J.D. Beman, H. Kentlink, J. Bosch, N. Smithof, J. Losel and J. Burgvliet, 1750. 4to. Contemporary half vellum, spine ribbed, title in ink on spine, marbled boards. With engraved folding portrait of the dedicatee Willem Carel Hendrik Friso by P. Tanjé after G. Sanders (1750), an allegorical frontispiece, vignette on the title-page (1737), armorial head-piece, 3 allegorical full-page plates and one folding plate after Jacob Kortebrant illustrating the course of the river Rotte, all skilfully engraved by Jan Punt (1747). (52), 179, (3) pp.

First edition of the main work of the Remonstrant author Dirk Smits (1702-1753), attractively illustrated by the famous engraver Jan Punt (1711-1779), and dedicated to stadtholder William IV. With preliminary poems by Lucretia Wilhelmina van Merken, K. Westerbaen, Pieter Langendijk, Arnold Hoogvliet and some others. The work is divided into 3 cantos, and concluded by 37 pages of annotations, which contain among other things some interesting topographical information. Smits was a member of Natura et arte and a celebrated author during his lifetime. His fame, however, declined in the nineteenth-century, until Willem Kloos re-discovered the Rotterdam poet in 1909.

Fine untrimmed copy.
Nijhoff/Van Hattum 287; Fontaine Verwey, De illustratie van letterkundige werken, p. 69. Vuyk, Verlichte verzen en kolommen, p. 33-39.

Related Subjects: 18th Century  Literary History, Poetry  Literature 

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