Bosch, Hieronymous; Roger MarijnissenBiblio.com
BOSCH, Johannes van denBiblio.com
De heeren stadhouderen van Vriesland zedert den jare acht-hondert volgens hoogst derzelver successie kortelyk beschreven. Als mede enkelde geslacht linie der Graven en Princen van Nassau beginnende met den jaare 682 . Mitsgaders naukeurige korte beschryvinge van de vorstelyke grafkelder en sepulture binnen Leeuwarden .
rif. ABC_48894Leeuwarden: printed by Abraham Ferwerda and Gerrit Tresling 1770. Later half vellum boards covered with paper manuscript title in black ink on the spine blue sprinkled edges. Small folio ca. 31 x 20 cm. With the title page set within a red decorative border 21 full-page mezzotint portraits with 3- or 4-line captions in Dutch and 10 woodcut tailpieces. Rare first and only edition of a concise history of the Stadtholders of the Dutch provinces of Friesland Groningen and Drenthe written by Johannes van den Bosch 1713-1784. It contains short biographies and genealogies of various members of the House of Orange-Nassau and their wives covering the period of 800-1769. The text ends with a description of the tombs of the Frisian Nassaus located in the Grote of Jacobijnerkerk in Leeuwarden. Van den Bosch was a Dutch merchant and director of the bank of loan in Leeuwarden. He dedicated this work to Stadtholder William V Prince of Orange 1748-1806 dated Leeuwarden 2 July 1770.The biographies are illustrated with 21 full-page engraved portraits all executed in the rare mezzotint technique using a black background for the effect of half-tones. The identity of the printmaker of these remarkable engravings is still not identified although Van Someren ascribes it to Rienk Jelgerhuis 1729-1806 a Dutch artist and engraver who was born in Leeuwarden. This attribution is understandable due to the fact that this work is sometimes accompanied by Jelgerhuis' print series of a royal funeral not present in our copy titled Nauwkeurige afbeelding der lijk-statie van . Maria Louisa geboren Princesse van Hessen-Kassel douarière van Johan Willem Friso . which was published in 1765 in Leeuwarden by Abraham Ferwerda and Rienk Jelgerhuis cf. FM 4160.From the celebrated library of the Dutch jurist Mr. F.C. Koch 1873-1957 with his bookplate and label mounted on the front pastedown including a few annotations in pencil regarding the possible identity of the engraver. Previously from the collection of the Dutch bookseller A.J. van Tetroode 1796-1875 with his oval labels in respectively Dutch and French mounted in the lower blank margin of the title page and on the blank verso of p. 87. Also with the collectors mark of the Dutch architect and artist C. Kramm 1797-1875 on the title page. Further with an extensive manuscript annotation in black ink on the first free endpaper concerning a portrait of William I Count of Nassau-Siegen 1487-1559 and with a green owner's stamp on the back pastedown. The spine and back board are slightly soiled the paper over the boards is partly worn lacking part of the bottom left corner on the back board front hinge slightly weakened inner blank margin of 2 preliminary leaves and 1 mezzotint portrait water stained a few annotations in black ink in the text. Otherwise in good condition.l Van der Aa II pp. 1009-1010; Eekhoff De stedelijke bibliotheek van Leeuwarden p. 255; Gabriëlse De rondreizende portrettist Rienk Jelgerhuis 1729-1806 in: Antiek 17 nr. 4 1982; Lipperheide vol. 2 945m; STCN 157630110 9 copies; Van Someren I no. 127; WorldCat 64807065 66978886 78838216 458354432 557949324 1199131938 22 copies; cf. for the collectors marks: Lugt L.585 and L.2390. printed by Abraham Ferwerda and Gerrit Tresling, hardcover
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