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Scriverius, Petrus
Estimate
50,000 - 75,000 USD
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Description
Principes Hollandiae, Zelandiae et Westfrisiae. Haarlem: Pieter Soutman, 1650
Folio (22 3/8 x 15 1/2 in.; 568 x 394 mm). Engraved title, 39 engraved plates including full-page plate with the coat-of-arms of Haarlem with a view of the city in the background and 38 full-page portraits of counts and countesses of Holland, Zeeland, and West-Frisia within oval ornamental borders with coats-of-arms, all engraved by Cornelis Visscher, and all engravings hand-colored and heightened with gold or silver, initials names and parts of sentences heightened with gold and often hand-coloring, additional blank leaves bound before each portrait; occasional light marginal spots. Contemporary gilt-stamped vellum, central arabesque medallion on each cover, spine gilt, gilt edges; soiled, ties gone, a few scratches, bottom corners torn.
Bound with:
Jesu Christo, Fideli Militantis Ecclesiae Imperatori ... Haarlem: Frederick de Witt for Pieter Soutman, 1650
Engraved title, 19 full-page portraits of saints of the North and South Netherlands, all by Cornelis Visscher after Pieter Soutman, all hand-colored, heightened with gold, additional blank leaves bound before each portrait; some plate margins browned.
Folio (22 3/8 x 15 1/2 in.; 568 x 394 mm). Engraved title, 39 engraved plates including full-page plate with the coat-of-arms of Haarlem with a view of the city in the background and 38 full-page portraits of counts and countesses of Holland, Zeeland, and West-Frisia within oval ornamental borders with coats-of-arms, all engraved by Cornelis Visscher, and all engravings hand-colored and heightened with gold or silver, initials names and parts of sentences heightened with gold and often hand-coloring, additional blank leaves bound before each portrait; occasional light marginal spots. Contemporary gilt-stamped vellum, central arabesque medallion on each cover, spine gilt, gilt edges; soiled, ties gone, a few scratches, bottom corners torn.
Bound with:
Jesu Christo, Fideli Militantis Ecclesiae Imperatori ... Haarlem: Frederick de Witt for Pieter Soutman, 1650
Engraved title, 19 full-page portraits of saints of the North and South Netherlands, all by Cornelis Visscher after Pieter Soutman, all hand-colored, heightened with gold, additional blank leaves bound before each portrait; some plate margins browned.
Literature
Hollstein XL, 77-116 (second state) and Hollstein XL, 17-36, title in 3rd state; see T. Goedings, Dirk Jansz. van Santen (1992), p. 35.
Catalogue Note
A grand and sumptuous monument to the secular and spiritual authorities in the golden age of the Netherlands.
The care and detail in the coloring, of both plates and text, indicate the work of the colorist Dirk Janszoon van Santen (1637–1708). This may be the copy sold at the death of Laurens van der Hem (1621–1678), an Amsterdam lawyer for whom van Santen worked for years. In the auction catalogue Bibliotheca Hemmiana (Amsterdam: Boom, 1684), page 64, lot 8 describes the same combination of the two works.