J. Van Lodenstein - Uytspanningen - 1743

J. van Lodenstein – Exertions, containing some pious songs and other poems – Amsterdam: Joannes Kannewet, 1743
Rare 18th-century Dutch devotional and poetic work by the renowned theologian and poet Jodocus van Lodenstein (1620–1677).
Twelfth edition, greatly enlarged ("The Twelfth Edition notably improved and increased with several new poems"), printed in Amsterdam by Joannes Kannewet in 1743.
Complete with the engraved allegorical frontispiece and the original folding half-title. Bound in its original full vellum binding with a contemporary handwritten spine title.
Condition:
Complete copy.
Original vellum binding.
Engraved frontispiece present.
Folding half-title present.
Sturdy binding.
Interior generally clean with only occasional age-related toning.
Minor wear to the vellum and small signs of use consistent with age.
A well-preserved example of one of the best-known devotional works from the Dutch Further Reformation (Nadere Reformatie), increasingly sought after by collectors of early Dutch printing.
In total 464 + 127 pp.