Author: HOOFT, (Pieter Cornelisz.).
Title: Nederlandsche historien, seedert de overdraght der heerschappye van kaizar Kaarel den Vyfden op kooning Philips zynen zoon, tot de doodt des Prinsen van Oranje. Met het vervolgh tot het einde der landtvooghdye des Graaven van Leicester. 3e druk.
Description: Amsterdam, Johan van Someren, Abraham Wolfgangk, Hendrik & Dirk Boom, 1677. Folio. Contemporary blindtooled vellum (sl. soiled), spine ribbed (ties missing). With engraved allegorical title page by I. van Munnichuysen after G. de La(i)resse, engraved vignette on title page, engraved portrait of P.C. Hooft by A. Sijlvelt after I. Sandrart, 9 double-page engraved plates and 11 engraved portraits by C. Decker. (16),27,(1),1242,(41) pp. Pieter Cornelisz. Hooft (1581-1647) started to write in 1628 the first part of this work which was published for the first time in 1642. The second part was posthumously published by his son Aarnoud in 1654. Hooft was one of the most prolific Dutch authors of the first half of the seventeenth century. His Nederlandsche Historien covers the period from Charles V's transfer of the government of the Netherlands to his son Philips II from 1555 until 1587, during the stay of the Earl of Leicester in the Netherlands. Also included the life of Hooft by Gerardt Brandt. The fine plates depict the battles of Haarlem, Alkmaar, Woerden, Leiden, Slot Vredesteyn Utrecht, Spanish inquisition, and 3 sea battles. The Nederlandsche Historien has become a monument in Dutch literature, not only for its accuracy and masterful description of events and characters, but also as the only Dutch historical writing in the classical style. - (Some marginal waterstaining). - A fine copy of a monumental historical work for the years 1555-1587, three tumultuous decades in which the Dutch provinces revolted against the authority of the Spanish king. Leendertz 126; Van Someren I, 72a.

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