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SEIZ, Johann Christian (18th century). Het derde jubeljaar der uitgevondene boekdrukkonst, behelzende een bekopt historis verhaal van de uitvinding der edele boekdrukkonst. Haarlem: Izaak and Johannes Enschede, 1740.
8o (204 x 127 mm). Half-title, with verses on verso, errata leaf at end. Engraved frontispiece and 5 engraved plates, one folding. Contemporary Dutch floral-paper wrappers (spine perished, rear wrapper detached). Provenance: A.N.L. Munby (bookplate).
FIRST EDITION. "An account of the third centenary celebration at Haarlem of the invention of Printing, with several plates representing the statue of Koster, his house, and six medals commemorative of him. A list of works relating to the invention of Printing occupies the first...twelve pages of the Dutch version [an edition in Latin was issued the following year]" (Bigmore & Wyman II, 336).
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FIRST EDITION. "An account of the third centenary celebration at Haarlem of the invention of Printing, with several plates representing the statue of Koster, his house, and six medals commemorative of him. A list of works relating to the invention of Printing occupies the first...twelve pages of the Dutch version [an edition in Latin was issued the following year]" (Bigmore & Wyman II, 336).