Author: Smallegange, M.
Title: Dutch History, Zeeland Illustrated | Nieuwe Cronyk van Zeeland, eerste deel [alles wat verscheen], Middelburg, Meertens v. Someren, 1696 [With Zeelandschen Adel].
Description: Folio, full-leather contemporary binding with decorative gilding on the spine and edge painting, (12) 774 12 (12) pp. Engraved frontispiece. Good, complete copy with many large-scale maps and landscape prints, including the often-missing print of Oosterland (697). Appended is a Beschryving van den Zeelandschen Adel, comprised of 12 pages of text and 6 large, double-page fold-out compilations of regional coats of arms. The binding is somewhat scuffed. The large map of Zeeland that introduces the text has been hand-colored. Plates not included in pagination. B0437Kroniek van Zeeland - Nederlands topografie boek - Zeeland adel - Smallegange - Oosterland prent - wapenkaarten This luxury new history of Zeeland is printed in folio with more than 90 richly detailed, full-page and fold-out maps and illustrations. It is divided into five books, with an appended Description of the Zeeland Nobility that includes illustrations of the coats of arms of regional nobility. A manuscript note of ownership is written in ink inside the front cover with the date of 1815, likely added by the Dutch nobleman François-Antoine de Neufforge, son of the architect and engraver Jean-François de Neufforge, best known for his Recueil elementaire d'architecture (1762).

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