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DES MENSCHEN BEGIN, MIDDEN EN EINDE [People's Beginning, Middle and End]; Vertoonende het Kinderlyk Bedryf en Aanwasch, in Eenenvystig Konstige Figuuren, met Goddelyke Spreuken en Stichtelyke Verzen; door Joannes Luiken. Met het Leven van den Autheur.
by Luiken, Joannes [Jan] (1649-1712 also spelt Luyken, Luycken or Luykens)
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Blockley, Gloucestershire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Amsterdam: Erven van F. Houttuyn, 1772. Hardcover. Very Good. Copperplates (pictorial engraved Title + Portrait + 51 more than half page) by Jan Luiken. [or Luyken]. Small octavo calf-spined boards, spine on 5 raised bands decorated gilt with rubbed gilt label (label slightly damaged, hinges starting to split but sound). Engraved titlepage (splits without loss repaired by mounting on old paper) + printed title (small repair at top) + [10]pp prelims +[20]pp life of author etc. +103pp +[7]pp including further poems by Luiken + plate list + publisher's book list - complete. Rear pastedown has an old bill 1914 for auction purchase. Minor signs of use, several small marginal tears without loss, but neat, tight and paper crisp. *A lovely Emblem book by the Dutch engraver Luiken. The emblematic plates show children's games - dolls, knucklebones, jacks, tops, kites, archery (cross bow), skip rope, soap bubbles, hoops, sling shot, hobby horse - also GOLF (Kolf) in great detail and charming domestic scenes - being sent off to school with hornbook etc.
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- Bookseller
- Abbey Antiquarian Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- E67824
- Title
- DES MENSCHEN BEGIN, MIDDEN EN EINDE [People's Beginning, Middle and End]; Vertoonende het Kinderlyk Bedryf en Aanwasch, in Eenenvystig Konstige Figuuren, met Goddelyke Spreuken en Stichtelyke Verzen; door Joannes Luiken. Met het Leven van den Autheur.
- Author
- Luiken, Joannes [Jan] (1649-1712 also spelt Luyken, Luycken or Luykens)
- Illustrator
- Copperplates (pictorial engraved Title + Portrait + 51 more than half page) by Jan Luiken. [or Luyken]
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Erven van F. Houttuyn
- Place of Publication
- Amsterdam
- Date Published
- 1772
- Keywords
- emblems children's Dutch games golf
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fable and Emblem Books;
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Abbey Antiquarian Books
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Blockley, Gloucestershire
About Abbey Antiquarian Books
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- Octavo
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- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- Spine
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