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HEUTERUS, Pontus.- Rerum Burgundicarum libri sex, in quibus describuntur res gestae Regum, Ducum, Comitumque, utriusque Burgundiae [...]. Quorum postremus liber, qui est sextus, continet genealogias familiarum eorum maximè Principum...

Estimation : 300 / 400
Adjudication : 300 €
Description
[...].
Antverpiae, ex officina Christophori Plantini, 1584 [- 1583].
2 parts in 1 vol. in-f° : [8]-192-[11]-[1 bl.], [12]-99 pp. (numerous dampstains throughout incl. some large, margins of first lvs frayed, marginal wormholes passim, some pp. slightly browned, rare holes in the margins or in the text, quire G. of 1st part misbound, some pp. of 2d work loosening or detached from the guards). Contemporary binding : vellum, flat spine, red sprinkled edges, ties (soiled).
FIRST EDITION of the history of the Burgundian Netherlands from Philip the Bold to Charles the Bold with an introductory chapter on Burgundy. Copy in variant Bb with the following caracteristics : on p. [2] the title of the poem "Carmen in historiam" is some 3 mm lower than the words "libri sex" on the title-page and the word "scriptum" on the same page and the quire signature of leaf "+3" are now printed correctly.
The second part containing the 6th book deals with the genealogy of prominent French, Belgian and Dutch families and rulers.
Even though the two parts are dated differently, they were both finished in 1583. The first came on the market in July 1583 but was plausibly finished too late for the September Frankfurt Fair so they put the date of 1584 on title-page to not outdate the work for the fair of Lent 1584.
The date of 1583 on the Genealogiae can have been preserved to indicate that no references later than that year had been included. Heuterus (1535-1602) was a Dutch priest and historiographer who escaped the execution of priests and monks in Gorkum by Calvinists in 1572. Plantin's marks on the title-pages.
# Voet 1325 (mentions one only other copy of this variant in the Jesuit College in Leuven) and 1326 (6th part with a collation different but same pagination); # Sorgeloos 245 & 246 (variant C); # Adams H-525; # Machiels H-195; # USTC 407878.
Provenance : J. Van Doernick, 1596, who bought it in Lyon (Latin handwritten mention).
Édition originale de cet ouvrage bien documenté, consacré à la généalogie de la maison de Bourgogne jusqu'à et y compris Charles le Téméraire. Plein vélin de l'ép. (plusieurs mouill., galeries et trous de vers marg. passim).
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