76/2033 [Bindings. First Stadholders' Bindery]. (Rijp, F.). Chronijk Van de vermaarde Zee en Koopstad Hoorn. Beginnende met de Grondlegging der West-Vriesen, ontrent 50 Jaren na Christi Geboorte. Als mede des Stads Begin, Voortgang en Tegenwoordige Staat, mitsgaders vele Gedenkwaardige Geschiedenissen soo Binnen als Buyten de selve voorgevallen. Hoorn, F. Rijp, 1706, 2 parts in 1 vol., (24),328; 136,(4)p., etched frontisp., dedic. plate, fold. bird's eye plan and 11 (fold.) plates, 18th cent. sprinkled calf bound by the FIRST STADHOLDERS' BINDERY (The Hague) w. gilt central lion ornament within a composition of crowned drawer handles, within 2 gilt tooled borders, inner border gilt-tooled, outer border triple fillet line, ribbed spine w. richly gilt compartments and mor. letterpiece, gilt boardedges, marbled edges.

- With bookplate of Paul Menso on upper pastedown; sl. browned. Spine-ends sl. dam.; gilding on backstrip for the larger part worn off; calf sl. worn due to acid biting(?) or just very dry.

= Extra illustrated with a portrait of Rombout van Hogerbeets publ. by C.J. Visscher. On the binding: The First Stadholder Bindery was the "most important bindery working in the eighteenth-century Netherlands" (Storm van Leeuwen, vol. IIA p.67). Possibly from the collection of the "Lion Collector" (see p.82ff). On the contents: Nijhoff/ Van Hattum 269; Haitsma Mulier/ Van der Lem 414b. The plates probably by (pupils of) Romeyn de Hooghe (Landwehr 104). SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXXXVIII.