Constantijn Huygens - Korenbloemen - 1658
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Constantijn Huygens’s first edition of *Korenbloemen*, a Dutch poetry collection published by Adriaen Vlack in 1658, bound in vellum.
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Constantijn Huygens - Koren-bloemen. Dutch poems by Constantin Huygens, Knight, Lord of Zuylichem, Zeelhem, and in Monickeland: First Councillor and Treasurer to Her Highness the Prince of Orange in Nineteen Books - The Hague, Adriaen Vlack, 1658 - (20) 1355 pp - leather bound
Fairly good. Loss at the head and foot of the spine. Right hinge open/broken, corners exposed. Ex-libris on the flyleaf. Inside browned, here and there a spot, (light) damp stain above the upper margin of the first 200 pp with bleed into the text. Notes in the margin on about ten pages. Two wormholes (extending into a dash on some pages) at the top right from the beginning to page 212. Loss of the corner of pages 215/216
Contains frontispiece, portrait of Huygens and the fold-out engraving of Hofwijck (a hairline tear in the inner margin into the image, about 1½ cm, lower left margin curled).
Pagination jumps from 72 to 81, 148 to 151, 184 to 189, 265 to 261, 966 to 970. No missing text pages
To be sent by registered mail
Constantijn Huygens - Koren-bloemen. Dutch poems by Constantin Huygens, Knight, Lord of Zuylichem, Zeelhem, and in Monickeland: First Councillor and Treasurer to Her Highness the Prince of Orange in Nineteen Books - The Hague, Adriaen Vlack, 1658 - (20) 1355 pp - leather bound
Fairly good. Loss at the head and foot of the spine. Right hinge open/broken, corners exposed. Ex-libris on the flyleaf. Inside browned, here and there a spot, (light) damp stain above the upper margin of the first 200 pp with bleed into the text. Notes in the margin on about ten pages. Two wormholes (extending into a dash on some pages) at the top right from the beginning to page 212. Loss of the corner of pages 215/216
Contains frontispiece, portrait of Huygens and the fold-out engraving of Hofwijck (a hairline tear in the inner margin into the image, about 1½ cm, lower left margin curled).
Pagination jumps from 72 to 81, 148 to 151, 184 to 189, 265 to 261, 966 to 970. No missing text pages
To be sent by registered mail
Details
Number of books
1
Subject
Literature, Poetry
Book title
Korenbloemen
Author/ Illustrator
Constantijn Huygens
Condition
Fair
Publication year oldest item
1658
Height
23 cm
Edition
1st Edition
Width
18 cm
Language
Dutch
Original language
Yes
Publisher
Adriaen Vlack
Binding/ Material
Vellum
Number of pages
1355
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