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[RIJCKE, Lambertus de, Nathane (de) VAY & Job de RIEU].Biblio.com

Bergues sur le Soom assiegée le 18 de Jullet 1622 et des-assiegée le 3 d'Octobre ensuivant. Selon la description faite par les trois pasteurs de l'église d'icelle.

1623rif. 8ADBZRFFSVEWMiddelburg 1623. 4to. Jean vander Hellen for Rombout van Hamerste 19th-century gold-tooled red morocco with the title lettered in gold on the spine a triple fillet panel with double fillet inner panelling with four corner pieces on both boards gold-tooled board edges and turn-ins marbled endpapers gilt edges. With a woodcut vignette on the title page 2 decorated woodcut initials and several headpieces made up of typographical ornaments. 16 281 11 pp. Very rare first French edition of a historical account of the second siege of Bergen op Zoom 1622 during the Eighty Years' War beautifully bound by the Swiss bookbinder Hans Asper 1880-ca. 1941. Bergen op Zoom was besieged by the Spanish Marquis Ambrosio Spinola from 18 July until 30 October 1622 which ended because of the arrival of the Dutch army under command of Prince Maurits of Orange. The events have here been described by three eyewitnesses namely the minsters of the town: Lambertus de Rycke 1575-1658 Nathan Vayus 1581-1615 and Job du Rieu 1578-1627. The present work is quite rare as the STCN mentions only three copies in institutions and we have not been able to find any other copies in sales records of the past hundred years. The work was first printed in 1623 in Dutch with the same imprint but the present French edition appeared in the same year. After the title with the "Octroy" on its verso dated Middelburg 14 September 1623 follow the dedication to the States General and Prince Maurits and 10 laudatory poems. The text itself is followed by lists of names of the protagonists during the siege including the magistrate of Bergen op Zoom and the commanding officers of both armies. The last page contains the errata. In 1867 Charles L.A. Campan edited a new edition of the French text with an extensive introduction and notes.With the name of the Swiss bookbinder Hans Asper 1880-ca.1941 printed on the verso of the front fly leaf. The binding is slightly stained the joints are very slightly weakened. The work is somewhat browned throughout. Otherwise a fine copy in a fine binding.l Barbier I p. 400; Bodel Nijenhuis 561; STCN 822884488 3 copies; cf. De Wind Ned. geschiedschrijvers I p. 377 Dutch ed.; Nijhoff 4956 Dutch ed. hardcover

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DURFEE, Job (1790 - 1847)ABAA

Autographed Letter Signed to President John Quincy Adams

1825rif. 260376Rhode Island 1825. unbound. very good. 1 page 12 x 7.75 inches Rhode Island October 29 1825. Written to President John Quincy Adams trying to convince him that he is a supporter in part: ".Mr. Pearce who is my competition for the seat which of lately occupied in Congress. Sir I am informed stated publicly and repeated that in conversation with you whilst last at Newport on your way to Washington you said to him that a short time since - that the whole delegation of the state of Rhode Island of course including myself were opposed to you. I have no confidence in the correctness of this report but their sic may be some who will believe it. The people of this state knowing that I have amongst them uniformly avowed my friendship for you as far as the report is credited be inclined to believe I have asserted one opinion at home and another at Washington. It is therefore injurious to my private character and I would feel myself under great obligation to you could you think there be no impropriety in enabling you to correct it." Several small spots and holes; very good- condition. Job Durfee was a politician and jurist from Rhode Island. Born at Tiverton he graduated from Brown University in 1813 and was admitted to the bar. He was a member of the Rhode Island House of Representatives from 1816 to 1820 and was elected as a Democratic-Republican to the Seventeenth Congress and was reelected as an Adams-Clay Republican to the Eighteenth Congress serving from March 4 1821 to March 3 1825. He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1824 to the Nineteenth Congress and for election in 1828 to the Twenty-first Congress; he was again a member of the State house of representatives from 1826 to 1829 serving as speaker from 1827 to 1829. He declined to be a candidate for reelection and resumed the practice of law; in May 1833 he was elected associate justice of the Rhode Island Supreme Court. He was chief justice from June 1835 until his death in Tiverton in 1847. unknown books