Live auction - Lot 800
[Poetry - Dutch]
Koren-Bloemen, Nederlandsche gedichten.
The Hague, A. Vlack, 1658
Hammer price: €
80
€ 100 / 150
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Lot description
4to: [26 incl. front.]-1355 pp.; 1 pl. (missing portrait).
Contemp. vellum, flat ink-titled spine (spine sl. detaching). Large-margined copy.
First edition of the collected poetical works of C. Huygens (1596-1687). Ill. with an engr. front. and a fold. pl. The 19 books contain a.o. the not earlier published "Dagh-werk", "Hofwyck" (with fold. pl.), a poem of praise for Huygens' country estate, 7 chapters "Snel-dichten" or epigrams and furthermore "Langdicht en Vertaelingen" and the "Spaense Wijsheyt" with translated expressions. Title in red & black.
Ref. BB III:563-565:H-120.