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Dutch history till 1560 in rhyme

WACHTENDORP, Caspar.
De oude Hollandsche geschiedenissen ofte Korte Hollandsche rym-Kronyck, verdeylt in 14. poëtische boecken, beginnende van de sunt-vloet, ende eyndigende met d'beginselen vanden tegenwoordigen oorlogh inde Nederlanden, ontrent 't jaer 1560. En werden nevens d'Hollandtsche historien oock daer in kortelijck verhandelt de eerste outheden van de naest om leggende landen, als niet alleen van Zeelandt en Vrieslant, die meest altijdt een Heer gehadt hebben met d',Hollanders, maer oock de beginselen van Uttrecht, Gelderlant, en Vlaenderen.

Engraved title, vignette on printed title, 13 half-page engraved plates and 31 portraits of the Counts of Holland, Zeeland and Friesland, beginning with Dirk I till Philips II, all bit the last after the drawings by W. Thibaut, with coat-of-arms and within a laurel wreath (the portrait of Philips II: in oval with Latin legend and 6-line Latin poem underneathafter Car. Veenhuysen by Chr. van de Passe: from the De Passe series <I>Viva et vera delineatio quatuor potentissimorem totius Europae monarcharum</I> ...), woodcut initials and tail-pieces.

Engraved title, vignette on printed title, 13 half-page engraved plates and 31 portraits of the Counts of Holland, Zeeland and Friesland, beginning with Dirk I till Philips II, all bit the last after the drawings by W. Thibaut, with coat-of-arms and within a laurel wreath (the portrait of Philips II: in oval with Latin legend and 6-line Latin poem underneathafter Car. Veenhuysen by Chr. van de Passe: from the De Passe series <I>Viva et vera delineatio quatuor potentissimorem totius Europae monarcharum</I> ...), woodcut initials and tail-pieces.

Engraved title, vignette on printed title, 13 half-page engraved plates and 31 portraits of the Counts of Holland, Zeeland and Friesland, beginning with Dirk I till Philips II, all bit the last after the drawings by W. Thibaut, with coat-of-arms and within a laurel wreath (the portrait of Philips II: in oval with Latin legend and 6-line Latin poem underneathafter Car. Veenhuysen by Chr. van de Passe: from the De Passe series <I>Viva et vera delineatio quatuor potentissimorem totius Europae monarcharum</I> ...), woodcut initials and tail-pieces.

Engraved title, vignette on printed title, 13 half-page engraved plates and 31 portraits of the Counts of Holland, Zeeland and Friesland, beginning with Dirk I till Philips II, all bit the last after the drawings by W. Thibaut, with coat-of-arms and within a laurel wreath (the portrait of Philips II: in oval with Latin legend and 6-line Latin poem underneathafter Car. Veenhuysen by Chr. van de Passe: from the De Passe series <I>Viva et vera delineatio quatuor potentissimorem totius Europae monarcharum</I> ...), woodcut initials and tail-pieces.

Engraved title, vignette on printed title, 13 half-page engraved plates and 31 portraits of the Counts of Holland, Zeeland and Friesland, beginning with Dirk I till Philips II, all bit the last after the drawings by W. Thibaut, with coat-of-arms and within a laurel wreath (the portrait of Philips II: in oval with Latin legend and 6-line Latin poem underneathafter Car. Veenhuysen by Chr. van de Passe: from the De Passe series <I>Viva et vera delineatio quatuor potentissimorem totius Europae monarcharum</I> ...), woodcut initials and tail-pieces.



Amsterdam, Gillis Joosten for Johannes Pauli, 1645 Contemporary overlapping vellum, spine with title written in ink. Engraved title, vignette on printed title, 13 half-page engraved plates and 31 portraits of the Counts of Holland, Zeeland and Friesland, beginning with Dirk I till Philips II, all bit the last after the drawings by W. Thibaut, with coat-of-arms and within a laurel wreath (the portrait of Philips II: in oval with Latin legend and 6-line Latin poem underneathafter Car. Veenhuysen by Chr. van de Passe: from the De Passe series Viva et vera delineatio quatuor potentissimorem totius Europae monarcharum ...), woodcut initials and tail-pieces. Collation A-Z4, A-D, Ee-Nn4, A-F4, G2.

First edition of a chronicle in verse on the history of the Low Countries until the year 1560 by Caspar Wachtendorp (d. 1700) with portraits of the counts of Holland, Zeeland and Friesland from Dirk I to Philips II. Our copy is the issue which is dedicated to the burgomasters of Amsterdam (there are also copies dedicated to the States General). A second edition was published in The Hague in 1648 by Anth. Tongerloo, I. Verhoeven, and S. de Putter.
There is a laudatory poem by Johannes P. Muller van Hoornbach on f. A4v and plates of the Flood, the first bishop of Utrecht Willebrord, the murder on Floris V, a  mermaid, the sea battle at Wieringen, the anabaptists at Amsterdam, etc. At the end (f. A1r-G2v) is Wachtendorp's 'Lof des Vredes'.

Good copy with the bookplate of Jean Caspar Joseph de Kohausen de Büschendorf.- (Ownership's entry on title erased).
De Wind, p. 486; Van Someren I, 94a; E.O.G. Haitsma Mulier, 'Geschiedschr ving op r m in Nederland in de beginnende zeventiende eeuw: Dousa, Bor en Wachtendorp, bien étonnés de se trouver ensemble?', in: De lectuur van het verleden : opstellen over de geschiedenis van de geschiedschr?ving aangeboden aan Reginald de Schryver (1998), pp. 189-205.

Related Subjects: 16th Century  History  Low Countries  Middle Ages 

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