HAMCONIUS (Hamckema), M. / HAMCONII
Frisia seu de viris rebusque Frisiae illustribus.
Franeker : J. Lamrinck for J. Starter, 1620.. Title printed in black and red within woodcut border and w. woodcut vignette, 2 large woodcut coats of arms verso title-p., etched portrait of the author and 53 full-length portraits of Frisian rulers within woodcut borders by FEDDES VAN HARLINGEN, showing in the background places, buildings and scenes connected with the lives of the depicted persons. Lacks 4 prelim. leaves, replaced b leaves of the 1609 edition. (26), 127, (5) leaves,1 woodcut plate of coats of arms and 53 engr. portr. within a decorative border, index HARDCOVER: (Contemp. calf, gilt. vignet on spine, cover worn and loosening, bookplates, annot. on endpaper,a few engrav. (partly) hand col. Interior VERY GOOD)
¶ VERY RARE AND SOUGHT AFTER. Haitsma Mulier/ Van der Lem 204,a; De Wind p.348-349; Van Someren I, p.103-104; Hollstein VI, p.240; F.M. 89. The second and most desirable edition (first Münster, 1609), the first with the illustrations. P. 74:ff: "Contains an account of a voyage of the Frisons to America and Chile, long before Columbus." Sabin 29937.
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