[Rarebooks] fa: [NETHERLANDS] HISTOIRE ABREGEE DES PROVINCES-UNIES - 43 Maps & Plates - 1701

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Histoire abregee des Provinces-Unies des Pais-Bas, ou l'on voit leurs progres, leurs conquetes, leur Gouvernement, et celui de leurs compagnies en Orient & en Occident. Comme aussi les Hommes Illustres dans les Armes & les Savans dans les Lettres. Enrichie d'un grand nombre de figures. Amsterdam: Jean Malherbe, 1701. First edition; folio (32 cm) in early/period mottled calf, spine tooled and lettered in gilt; [8], 109, [3] pp; with 2 folding engraved maps, 4 folding plates, and 37 leaves of plates in the text (complete). Sabin 32006; Chadenat (Bibliophile Americain) 4897; OCLC 54176712.

A history of the United Provinces of the Netherlands, formerly the Spanish Netherlands, richly illustrated with thirty-seven finely engraved leaves of plates depicting medallions, city plans and battles. There are an additional four illustrated folding charts depicting the history of the region, its government, and the governing body of the Dutch East India Company; and two folding maps, the first showing the Netherlands ("les dix-sept provinces des Pays-bas"), and the second a map of the world and Dutch colonies ("les progres & les conquestes les plus Remarquables des Provinces-Unies"), with California depicted as an island. The second part of the book consists of brief biographies of illustrious figures in Dutch military, political and cultural history.

Binding with some rubbing and wear to the extremities and joints; first map with a long tear to the margin repaired on the verso, one of the folding plates with a split at one of the folds; contents with occasional browning to the leaves and offsetting to the plates, a few scattered spots and stains, but generally quite clean and crisp. Front paste-down with the grandiose engraved armorial bookplate of "His Excellency Alexander [Hume-Campbell] Lord Polworth, Elder son of Patrick Earl of Marchmont &c. His Majesties Ambassador Extraordinary & Plenipotentiary to the Congress at Cambray, Lord Clerk Register of Scotland, and Lord Lieutenant of Berwickshire," dated 1722.