Jean le Clerc | Geschiedenissen der Vereenigde Nederlanden, Amsterdam, 1730 - photo 1
Jean le Clerc | Geschiedenissen der Vereenigde Nederlanden, Amsterdam, 1730 - photo 2
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Jean le Clerc | Geschiedenissen der Vereenigde Nederlanden, Amsterdam, 1730

Lot 53
28.11.2023 14:00UTC +00:00
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Lot 53 | Jean le Clerc | Geschiedenissen der Vereenigde Nederlanden, Amsterdam, 1730
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£ 3 000 – 5 000
Jean le Clerc

Geschiedenissen der Vereenigde Nederlanden. Amsterdam: Zacharias Chatelain, 1730

First Dutch edition, 3 volumes, folio (355 x 230mm.), contemporary mottled calf, raised bands, spine gilt in compartments with central floral lozenge, three title pages with vignettes, 112 ENGRAVED PLATES, comprising 3 engraved frontispieces by Picart, I. van Munnichuysen, and A. Blooteling, 2 folding maps, 57 engraved portraits by Picart and A. Vaillant, 49 double-page engraved plates by C. Decker, J. Mulder, Jan Luyken, and Picart, and one folding engraved plate by Daniel Marot, occasional minor spotting or browning, extremities slightly rubbed

This is the first appearance in Dutch of a classic history of the United Provinces of the Netherlands from the time of the revolt against Spain in 1560 up to the 1713 Treaty of Utrecht, enriched with fine engraved portraits of key historical figures and with large plates showing dramatic battles and other significant events.

First published in French in 1728, the text is by the humanist philosopher Jean le Clerc, or Joannes Clericus (1657-1736), a French Huguenot who settled in the more tolerant city of Amsterdam. There, he taught at the Remonstrant seminary and wrote works of theology, philosophy, and history. His reputation helped him gain access to the Amsterdam municipal archives--the first historian to do so--where he found much source material for this work.

Considered by Ray to be “the outstanding professional illustrator of the first third of the eighteenth century”, Bernard Picart (1673-1733) was born in Paris, where he learned engraving from his father, Etienne, and from Sébastian Le Clerc, and “early acquired a reputation both as an artist and engraver.” He moved to the busy publishing city of Amsterdam sometime before 1712, and established himself as both as printseller and as an illustrator/engraver. There, he designed and engraved an impressive body of illustrations for Dutch printers at a time when, in Ray’s words, “designs for the finest illustrated books were typically drawn by leading painters”. To meet the demand for his work, he established a roster of engravers to assist with large projects like the present one.
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