[History of the Dutch Republic].
Abraham de Wicquefort (1606 - 1682)
Category
Manuscripts and documents
Date
1667 - 1682
Materials
Place of origin
Netherlands
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3236436.1
Summary
Bibliographic description
Vol. 1 ([vi], 139, [5], 1*, [1], 167, [1], 1*, [1], 55, [1], 97, [7], 345, [1], [vi] p.) ; 31 cm. (fol.) Running number: 6939. Ephemera: inserted as bookmark between pp. 24-25 part of torn envelope with partial address "...Hobart Esq: ... [R]ichmond ... Surry" [i.e. Hobart Hall in Richmond, Surrey, from 1757 the Thames-side home of Elizabeth Hobart (d. 1762) dowager Countess of Buckinghamshire, and later the home of her son Henry Hobart (1738-1799)]. Provenance: the author Abraham de Wicquefort (1606-1682). Hendrik Emilius van Hoornbeek (fl. 1698-1741), Pensionary of Delft. Jacques Basnage (1653-1723), French historian of the Dutch Republic. Charles Levier (d. 1734), bookseller in The Hague. Bought by Robert Trevor (1706-1783), secretary of the British embassy at The Hague, on behalf of Sir Richard Ellys (1682-1742) of Nocton, Lincolnshire. Binding: eighteenth-century limp comb and swirl pattern marbled paper wrapper sewn on four supports; untrimmed edges. Resewn and repaired; paper repairs. Book conservator's typescript note attached to rear pastedown: "Wicquefort, History of the Dutch Republic, vol. I. Condition on arrival: the sewing was broken in several places, the paper was stained and the cover badly worn. ... [treatment report] ... N.W.M. Pickwoad November 1980". In modern brown buckram book box.
Makers and roles
Abraham de Wicquefort (1606 - 1682), author Jacques Basnage, sieur de Beauval (1653-1723), author Lestevenon, Daniel, 1660-1736, author