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CONSTANTYN HUYGENS (1596-1687)
Koren-bloemen. Amsterdam: Jan van Ravesteyn, 1672. 2 parts in one volume, 4° (239 x 193mm). Woodcut vignettes on titles. Engraved additional title and portrait frontispiece, 2 engraved folding plates, one by Romein de Hooghe, woodcut head- and tailpieces and initials. (Occasional spotting and minor marking, some light dampstaining, small hole in ii/3M2, short clean tear on one folding plate, the other detached, lacking [?final blank] ii/3C4.) Contemporary vellum, lettered in ink on the spine (some marking, upper pastedown lifted).
Second edition.
Koren-bloemen. Amsterdam: Jan van Ravesteyn, 1672. 2 parts in one volume, 4° (239 x 193mm). Woodcut vignettes on titles. Engraved additional title and portrait frontispiece, 2 engraved folding plates, one by Romein de Hooghe, woodcut head- and tailpieces and initials. (Occasional spotting and minor marking, some light dampstaining, small hole in ii/3M2, short clean tear on one folding plate, the other detached, lacking [?final blank] ii/3C4.) Contemporary vellum, lettered in ink on the spine (some marking, upper pastedown lifted).
Second edition.
Provenance
J. van der Wilt, 30 October 1769 (inscription on rear flyleaf).
W.V. Bangeman 1787 (inscriptions on additional title and rear flyleaf).
C. [...] Kerekhoff, Wassnaar 1939 (inscription on front free endpaper).
Occasional marginal annotations.
Dr Anton C.R. Dreesmann (inventory no. Y-40).
W.V. Bangeman 1787 (inscriptions on additional title and rear flyleaf).
C. [...] Kerekhoff, Wassnaar 1939 (inscription on front free endpaper).
Occasional marginal annotations.
Dr Anton C.R. Dreesmann (inventory no. Y-40).
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