Online auction - Lot 138
[Antwerp]
Antwerpsch chronykje, in het welk zeer veele en elders te vergeefsch gezogte geschiedenissen, sedert den jare 1500. tot het jaar 1574. [...] byzonderlyk op het stuk der geloofs-hervorminge voorgevallen, omstandig zyn beschreeven.
Leiden, P. Vander Eyk, 1743
Starting bid: €
50
Hammer price: €
55
€ 100 / 150
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4to: [12]-260 pp. (tear in p. 167 touching the text, some min. browning, traces of a label on title).
Later binding with leather spine and marbled paper over boards (joints clumsily reinforced, bookblock loosening).
First and only edition of this account of the religious troubles in Antwerp at the start of the Dutch Revolt. Variously ascribed to "Frater Gasper Verstockt" (1614-1683), to Gerard van Loon (1683-1758) and to "Franciscus Godefridus Ullens". Woodcut ornament on title.
Ref. STCN (i.a. BL).