La Grande Chronique Ancienne Et Moderne,De Hollande, Zelande, Vvest-Frise, Utrecht, Frise, Overyssel & Groeningen, jusques a la fin de l'An 1600.
Receuillee tant des histoires desdites Provinces, que de divers autres Auteurs, par Iean Francois Le Petit, Greffier de Bethune en Arthois. Christoffel von Sichem sculp.
Tome Premier. A Dordrecht. de l'Impression de Iacob Canin, pour l'Auteur. Avec privilege pour dix ans. [Dordrecht, 1601.]
Hand coloured engraved titlepage, sheet 290 x 190mm. 11½ x 7½". Trimmed to plate. Foxing, staining and creasing. Tatty extremities, with chips and small tears.
Decorative motifs include ships and trading merchants on a quayside; musical instruments; armour and weaponry, and books and scientific instruments. From Volume I of the first edition of the chronicle and genealogy of the counts of Holland and their families by the French historian and poet Jean François Le Petit (1546 - 1614 or 1615). The first volume is in its greater part, the translation of the "Divisie-Kroniek", works of the monk Cornelius Aurelius who about 1517 resided at the monastery of Lopsen close to Leiden (Netherlands).
[Ref: 13143] £260.00
Tome Premier. A Dordrecht. de l'Impression de Iacob Canin, pour l'Auteur. Avec privilege pour dix ans. [Dordrecht, 1601.]
Hand coloured engraved titlepage, sheet 290 x 190mm. 11½ x 7½". Trimmed to plate. Foxing, staining and creasing. Tatty extremities, with chips and small tears.
Decorative motifs include ships and trading merchants on a quayside; musical instruments; armour and weaponry, and books and scientific instruments. From Volume I of the first edition of the chronicle and genealogy of the counts of Holland and their families by the French historian and poet Jean François Le Petit (1546 - 1614 or 1615). The first volume is in its greater part, the translation of the "Divisie-Kroniek", works of the monk Cornelius Aurelius who about 1517 resided at the monastery of Lopsen close to Leiden (Netherlands).
[Ref: 13143] £260.00