Pieter Langendyk - De gedichten - 1751

The Poems of Pieter Langendyk - Haarlem, J Bosch, 1751 - (20) 504 (9) pp - leather binding

Reasonable. Dings and scuffs. Faint haze over the boards. Inside hinges partially open, inner margin slightly open in a few places - book block tight. Covers loose. Interior browned, some spots, moisture stains on the last 10 leaves and the endpaper as well as a moisture spot at the top of the inner margin from page 475 to the end and at the top or in the middle of the inner margin of about 70 pages scattered through the book. Last index leaf loose. Some (mild) dog-ears. Worm trail in the top margin of the first 5 leaves then one pinhead-sized hole up to page 145. Tear, 4 cm, in the top margin of page 447/448.

Contains a portrait of the author and 3 fold-out engravings (tear in the inner margin reaching into the images of all three - see photos) and a full-page plate - all depicted.

Langendijk’s Poems (1721, 1751) were published in three parts, and the fourth part followed. After his death in 1756, anonymous poets completed his final tragedy, Spiegel der Vaderlandsche Kooplieden, which appeared in the 4th part published in 1760 and also contains a biography of Langendyk.

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