Author: HEERKENS, G.N.
Title: Icones.
Description: Paris, B. Dusaulchoi, 1788. xciv, 168 pp.Half-calf w.morocco title piece. (spine a bit spotted; libr.stamp on fly leaf and title) ¶ Rare reissue of the 1787 edition published in Utrecht by B. Wild. The Icones start with poetical elogies of Charles-Louis Auguste de Fouquet, duc de Belle-Isle (Bellilius), the Dutch envoi in France Abraham Van Hoei, the Stadtholder of Frisia and Groningen William Louis van Nassau, of the other stadtholders, further a mirror of his time ('Icon nostri saeculi' ), and end with an ode of the senate and people of Amsterdam and an ode of Petrus van Bleiswijk. ¶ Gerad Nicolaas Heerkens (1726-1801), was a general practicioner in Groningen. His medical practice gave him ample opportunity to travel extensively. "'s winters was hij dikwijls te Parijs of in Zeeland. Heerkens was een begaafd man met groote kennis en aangename manieren. Hij was bevriend met een groot aantal mannen van beteekenis, zoowel in Nederland, als in Frankrijk en Italië, en lid van tallooze geleerde genootschappen. Maar hij was ijdel en trachtte steeds de aandacht op zich te vestigen. Zijne latijnsche gedichten staan niet hoog." (J.A.Worp in NNBW.I/1050-51). See also Lindeboom, DMB.803-4: "He settled in pratice at Groningen and devoted all his spare time to Latin poetry, of which he published several collections. Some of them have medical implications."

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