2 vol. folio, vol. I, 312 leaves; vol. II, 362 leaves; engraved device on each title-page, engraved portraits in the text
in vol. I and 1 engraved portrait in vol. II; titles printed in red and black. Volume I is the
third, volume II the
second edition.
Bibliotheca Belgica, S 58.
Backer VII, 1615.
These volumes are reimpressions of the Paris editions of 1650, 1651.
The books were evidently not delivered to Congress with the rest of the library in 1815. In a working copy of the 1815 catalogue
the entry is not checked as present and is included in a manuscript list, made after 1815, headed
Congress Library Books Missing.
Entered on Jefferson’s undated manuscript catalogue with the price
7.4.
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148
Aitzema’s Hist. of the united Netherlands.
1650.
1651.
small fol.
1815 Catalogue, page 9. no. 155, Aitzema’s hsitory of the United Netherlands, 1650, 1651, p fol.
AITZEMA,
Lieuwe van.
Notable Revolutions; Beeing a True Relation of what hap’ned in the United Provinces of the Netherlands in the years MDCL and
MDCLI. Somewhat before and after the Death of the late Prince of Orange. According to the
Dutch Copie, collected and published at the Haghe 1652. By Lion Aitzema . . . The Principal matters handled herein, you shall have in a Table at the end of the Book.
London: Printed by
William Du-gard, by the Appointment of the Council of State, Anno
1653.
DJ171 .A28
Sm. folio in fours. 370 leaves.
STC A821.
Hazlitt IV, page 3.
This edition not in Van der Aa.
Entered in Jefferson’s undated manuscript catalogue with the price,
2/6.
Lieuwe van Aitzema, 1600-1669, Dutch historian, was a native of Friesland. The original Dutch edition was printed in Gravenhage in 1652 and
frequently reprinted.
149
De Witt’s state of Holland.
8
vo.
1815 Catalogue, page 10. no. 131, as above.
[LA COURT,
Pieter de.]
Political Maxims of the State of Holland: comprehending a general View of the civil Government of that Republic, and the Principles
on which it is founded; the Nature, Rise, and Progress of the Commerce of its Subjects, and of their true Interests with respect
to all their Neighbours. By John De Witt, Pensionary of Holland. Translated from the
Dutch Original, which contains many curious Passages not to be found in any of the
French Versions. To which is prefixed, Historical Memoirs of the two illustrious Brothers Cornelius and John De Witt [by John Campbell].
London: Printed for
J. Nourse,
1743.
First Edition of this translation. 8vo. 256 leaves.
This edition not in Lowndes.
Watt I, 301e.
Not in Halkett and Laing.
Pieter de la Court, 1618-1685, Dutch historian.
Jan de Witt, 1625-1672, Dutch statesman. This work is a translation into
English, first printed in 1702, of the
Aanwysing der heilsame politike Gronden en Maximen van de Republike van Holland . . . 1669, by Jan de Witt, a revised and enlarged edition of the
Interest van Holland
, 1662, of Pieter de la Court, published without his consent.
John Campbell, 1708-1775, English miscellaneous writer. The edition of 1746 has his name on the title-page.
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