CRETSER, Gysbert de and Constantijn HUYGENS.
Beschryvinge van 's Gravenhage, behelsende desselfs eerste opkomste, stichtinge en vermakelyke situatie, het Graven-hof aldaar gebouwt ... Mitsgaders de oude coustumen ... Waar achter bygevoegt is de Zeestraat op Scheveninge door de Heer van Zuylichem [= Constantijn Huygens].
Amsterdam, Jan ten Hoorn, 1711. 3 part in 1 volume. 4to. With 2 engraved frontispieces (by Jan Luyken and Jan van Lamsvelt] and 9 engraved plates (4 folding). Contemporary vellum. [16], 140, [8], 104, [8]; 56 pp.
€ 1,250
First edition of Cretser's account of The Hague, with Huygens's Zee-straet (mentioned on the title-page of the first part, but with its own title-page, pagination and signatures, so that it could also be sold separately). A second edition was published in 1729.
Some browning, otherwise in very good condition. Bodel Nijenhuis 1070; Klaversma & Hannema 390 & 736; Nijhoff-Van Hattum 70.
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