[DOMSELAAR, Tobias van].
Het ontroerde Nederlandt, door de wapenen des konings van Vrankryk ...
Amsterdam, Markus Willemsz. Doornik, 1674.
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(2) [IDEM]. Het tweede deel, van't Ontroerde Nederlandt, door de wapenen des konings van Vrankryk.
Amsterdam, Markus Willemsz. Doornik, 1676.
(3) V. T. V. [= Geeraert BRANDT DE JONGE]. Tweejaerige Geschiedenissen, voorgevallen in de Jaeren 1674 en 1675 ...
Amsterdam, Johannes van Someren, Abraham Wolgangh, and Hendrik and Dirk Boom, 1678. 3 parts in 3 volumes. 4to. Vol. 1 with an engraved frontispiece, 6 engraved folding plates, 1 folding map, 1 full-page coat of arms, and 15 full-page portraits; vol. 2 with an engraved frontispiece, 13 folding etchings, and 7 full-page engraved plates; vol. 3 with an engraved frontispiece, and 8 full-page engraved portraits. Slightly later gold-tooled sprinkled calf. [6], 528, [20]; [6], 822, [10]; [6], 816, [16] pp.
€ 4,500
Complete set of the extensive history of the Disastrous Year of 1672 and the following years, with beautiful plates by Romeyn de Hooghe (1645-1708) and Isaac Sorious (17th century). It provides a detailed account of the war and the internal struggles within the Dutch Republic during that period, as it was being attacked on all fronts (by the French, the English, and the dioceses of Cologne and Munster), and at the same time facing a power struggle at home between the States and the House of Orange. The work is considered significant for understanding the events of 1672 and the Dutch Republic's response to the crisis. The present set includes both parts by playwright and historian Tobias van Domselaar (17th century), and the third part that was written as a continuation by the Remonstrant minister Geraert Brandt de Jonge (1657-1683). It also includes the complete series of 13 etchings by Sorious, depicting the destruction of the French troops in the Province of Utrecht, which is often missing: "a few plates are generally found, the complete series together is very rare" (Muller).
The volumes are somewhat rubbed along the extremities, missing a small portion of leather at the head of the spine of the third volume. The volumes are lightly browned throughout, lacking the final blank of the first volume. Otherwise in good condition. De Buck 2725; Landwehr, Romeyn de Hooghe, 37; Muller, Historieplaten 2365; for the series by Sorious: Hollstein XXVIII, pp. 219; ad 1: STCN 097603007 (15 copies); ad 2:STCN 097054801 (16 copies); ad 3: STCN 840751362 (16 copies); not in Nijhoff, BHN.
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