Gerrit Willem van Oosten de Bruyn - De stad Haarlem en haare geschiedenissen - 1765

Mr. Gerrit Willem van Oosten de Bruyn - The city of Haarlem and its histories, in their rise, growth, enlargements, and fortunes, from the oldest commemorative pieces, and its own city registers, traced and described - Haarlem, Johannes Enschedé and Jan Bosch, 1765 - 1st and only print - 1st part and also last part: a second part was never published - (22),341p - half-leather binding

Good. Planed and bruised spots, some paper loss flattened. Loss of leather at the head and tail of the spine. Tips brittle - book block fixed in the binding. Label on the cover, two stamps on the title page. A crack 1 to 2 cm, in the margin four leaves, tear of 4 cm in the lower margin leaf 71/72. Letters in the right column on page 332 worn and faded by browning. Internal pages discolored, here and there a spot / blotchy, (slight) damp spot at the top of most pages. Some foxing.

Contains title vignette, 5 plates with in total 26 illustrations and 2 engravings, each on 1 page, and a portrait of Laurens Janszoon — all depicted.

Rare work

Gerrit Willem de Bruyn (born 17 October 1727, Amersfoort - died 16 July 1797 in Amersfoort) who styled himself after his mother Van Oosten, enrolled in 1748 in Utrecht as a student of law and there was promoted in the same year. He settled in Haarlem but apparently had enough money not to need practice and devoted himself, among other things, to history. The Haarlem city council entrusted him with writing a city history, for which he gained access to the archives. The first part of his work appeared in print, the second part remains in manuscript in the Haarlem City Archive. After the restoration of the stadtholder in 1787, Van Oosten de Bruyn was appointed to the council in the vroedschap by William V and in 1789 and 1790 he was also mayor. At the upheaval of 1795 De Bruyn was dismissed and withdrew to his estate near Amersfoort.

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