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Florisatus Fine Books
Plein 19 C
2511 CS Den Haag
Netherlands

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Edwin & Liesbeth Bloemsaat

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with beautifully watercolour coats of arms of Willem V
Naamregister militair 1764, id. 1765, id. 1766". Manuscripts in brown ink with lists of officers in red ruled tables. Each volume with an elaborately coat of arms of the stadholder Willem V in watercolour and a calligraphed title page. Den Haag?, 1764-1766. 3 volumes. 8vo (218 x 135 mm). 1) Coat of arms, title page, 2 leaves index & 99p.; 2) Coat of arms, title page, 2 leaves index & 104 p.; 3) Coat of arms, title page, 3 leaves index & 106p.

Brown calf gold tooled and marbeld in 2 patterns. On the covers a braod double border composed of various decorative tools, the 1764 volume with a composed centre peice, the other 2 volumes with the coat of arms ov William V of Orange. Spines with 6 raised bands and red title label, uniformly gold tooled. Comb marbled end leaves. Edges gilt and simply gauffered. (Bound by the "Bloemenbinderij, The Hague).
Very rare military manuscripts with beautifully watercolour coats of arms of Willem V, in armorial bindings by the Bloemenbindery in The Hague -From the collection of Hugo Willem Bosscha-
Very rare and remarkable first volumes, of probably a much longer series. We only could trace 1 other volume (1767) in the Legemuseum. The volumes were part of the "Stadhouderlijke secretarie", which was dissolved in 1795 and the books dispersed. Very intersting volumes, which give an overview of the military officers in The Netherlands. On p. 83 of 1764 "vaandrig J.G. Stedman" is mentioned, who went in 1772 on a military expedition to Suriname, and is the author on the famous Narrative of five years.

-Provenance: 1) Stadholder secretary; 2) Hugo Willem Bosscha (1904-1979), Dutch collector. His small but exquisite library was anonymously sold at auction by Beijers in Utrecht, 11 March 1980. This work was lot no. 128.

-Literature: Louis Sloos, Gewapend met kennis, p.178-179; Jan Storm van Leeuwen, De achttiende eeuwse Haagse boekband p. 331-334; Idem, Dutch Decorated Bookbinding IIa, p. 174 mentions this copy; Piet Buijnsters, Geschiedenis van de Nederlandse bibliofilie, p. 196-198.

-Condition: Head of the spine of vol 1766 damaged, and upper joint som cm spiltting; Else a marvellous set in very rare high quality Dutch armorial bindings.


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