AMSTERDAM IN ZYNE OPKOMST, AANWAS, GESCHIEDENISSEN, VOORREGTEN, KOOPHANDEL,GEBOUWEN, KERKENSTAAT, SCHOOLEN, SCHUTTERYE, GILDEN EN REGEERINGE BESCHREEVEN. (FOUR VOLUMES); (AMSTERDAM IN ITS RISE, GROWTH, HISTORIES, PRIVILEGES, COMMERCE, BUILDINGS, CHURCH STATE, SCHOOLS, SCHUTTERYE, GUILD AND GOVERNMENT DESCRIBED

Author: Wagenaar, Jan
Title: AMSTERDAM IN ZYNE OPKOMST, AANWAS, GESCHIEDENISSEN, VOORREGTEN, KOOPHANDEL,GEBOUWEN, KERKENSTAAT, SCHOOLEN, SCHUTTERYE, GILDEN EN REGEERINGE BESCHREEVEN. (FOUR VOLUMES); (AMSTERDAM IN ITS RISE, GROWTH, HISTORIES, PRIVILEGES, COMMERCE, BUILDINGS, CHURCH STATE, SCHOOLS, SCHUTTERYE, GUILD AND GOVERNMENT DESCRIBED
Publication: Amsterdam, Netherlands: Isaak Tirion (Volume I-III), Yntema en Tieboel (Volume IV), 1760/1765/1767
Edition: First Edition

Description: Hardcover. Four volume matching set: Folio, 17.4 in. x 11 in. Volume I: [8], xxiv, 380. Volume II: 565, [1]; Volume III: 381-743, 1-88; Volume IV: 89-551. Text in Dutch. Illustrated with 81 engraved plates: one frontispiece, two portraits, six fold-out plans, four fold-out maps, forty-three single-page engravings & twenty-five fold-out engravings. Contemporary half calf over speckled paper boards. Gilt title on red panel, and seven raised bands, to spines. Elaborate gilt decoration to all spine panels.

Rubbing to extremities; a few scuffs and stains to boards. Heads and tails of spines missing or well-chipped. Tideline to bottom of front board on Volume II. Three inch crack to spine of Volume IV. Corners bumped to all volumes. Title pages in red and black ink. Unmarked interiors. Tideline and worming to bottom margin of opening pages of Volume II. Age-toning to pages of all four books. Joints and hinges tight. Engraved plates in very good plus condition. Good Plus.

Volumes I and II (1760) both labelled "Eerste Stuk" ("First Part"); Volume III (1765) labelled "Tweede Stuk" ("Second Part"); Volume IV (1767) labelled "Derde Stuk" ("Third Part").

Jan Wagenaar (1709 – 1773) was a Dutch historian, best known for his contributions to Tegenwoordige staat van nederland and Vaderlandsche Historie, and this History of Amsterdam.

Seller ID: 86525

Subject: History – European


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