La grande chronique ancienne et moderne de Hollande, Zelande, VVest-Frise, Vtrecht, Frise, Overyssel & Groeningen, jusques à la fin de l'an 1600.
Receüillee tant des histoires desdites provinces, que de divers autres auteurs, par Iean François Le Petit, greffier de Bethune en Arthois.
Description
- Language(s)
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French
- Published
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A Dordrecht, De l'impression de Iacob Canin, pour l'auteur, 1601.
- Note
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Includes index at end of each vol.
Pagination, v. 1: [22], 650 [i.e. 654], [2], 240, [18] p. Vol. 2: [16], 779 [i.e. 788], [16] (the last p. blank).
Printed in double columns with side notes.
Engraved t.-p. repeated for v. 2, with printer's name changed to Guillaume Guillemot.
Engraved t.-p., ports. of Le Petit and of the counts of Holland and other leading figures are signed by Christoffel von Sichem. Exceptions are K2v (an unsigned woodcut), and 3F5v (an unsigned engraving), both in v. 1. In addition a few ports. in v. 1 are signed KVSichem (O5r, S4r, Y5v). This may be for Karel von Sichem, Christoffel's elder son. Plate at 2D7r, v. 2, is an allegory of the United Provinces and the States General. Letterpress text, decorated woodcut initials.
- Physical Description
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2 v.
illus. (ports.)
31 cm. (fol. in 8's)
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