BOR, Pieter Christiaenszoon.
Oorsprongk, begin, en vervolgh der Nederlandsche oorlogen, beroerten, en borgerlyke oneenigheden ... in XXXVII boeken, en IV stukken verdeelt ... voorts met een byvoeghsel van authentyke stukken en nieuwe registers vermeerdert.
Amsterdam, the widow of Joannes van Someren, Abraham Wolfgangh, Hendrick and Dirck Boom, 1679-1684. 9 parts in 4 volumes (with the index "Algemeene blad-wyser" by Abraham van Poot published in 1684 in volume IV). Folio (ca. 39.5 x 23.5 cm). With 4 identical frontispieces, 5 identical woodcut publishers marks, the title of volume I is printed in red and black, 4 identical portraits of the author, 36 full-page engraved portraits, and 40 double-page plates. Uniform contemporary blind-tooled vellum, both panelled boards with large blind-stamped ornament in the centre, ribbed spines with manuscript title in black ink, sprinkled edges, remnants of green ties. Volume I: [36], 1006, [2], [188]; volume II: [16], 1-232, 235-242, 241-672, 679-994, [128]; volume III: [16], 1-532, [6], 529-623, 626-627, 626-690, 693-[896], [28]; volume IV: [8], 1-419, 432-[512], 517-[692], [4], 14, 16, [184] pp.
€ 5,000
The most detailed and complete edition of Pieter Bors well-known and important contemporary history of the Revolt of the Dutch Republic against the King of Spain to whose kingdom the Low Countries belonged. The history covers the years 1555-1600 in 37 books of which the first three originally were published in Utrecht in 1595, followed by book 4-6 in 1601, all six books re-edited in 1603 in 2 volumes. A new edition was published in 1621-1634 in 6 volumes. The present edition of 1679-1684 is the most used edition to which 4 supplements and new indexes were added by the Dutch physician Abraham van Poot (ca. 1617-1695). This edition has been also published in 9 volumes in a smaller format.
Pieter Christiaenszoon Bor (1559-1635) was a public notary in Haarlem (1578 and from 1582 till 1591), in The Hague and from 1591 onwards in Leiden. In 1582 he received an annuity from the States General for his researches. Through his work he had access to city archives in the places he stayed during the 25 years he devoted to compile his very detailed, precise and reliable history. As a result, he could publish many original documents, many of which have since been lost, making his work an important resource for the history of the Dutch Revolt during the second half of the 16th century. The supplements contain even more sources and facts about the period which underline its value being the leading work in this respect on the subject.
Volume I with 19th-century manuscript note (a short biography of P.C. Bor) in black ink on recto of the first free endpaper. Volumes II-IV partly with errors in the pagination, but the text is complete. Apart from some slightly soiling and spotting at places, a complete set in a very good condition. Haitsma Mulier/Van der Lem, no. 75 (with further literature); NNBW, VI, cols. 160-163; Sloos, Warfare and the Age of Printing, no. 12134; STCN 281496625, 281498350, 281500509, 190886919; USTC 1814971, 1816052, 1816928, 1826926; Van Eeghen/Van der Kellen, no. 9.
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