Item #003072 Het Gedenkboek 1813 : Uitgegeven Bij Het Eeuwfeest der Herwinning van Ons Selfstandig Volksbestaan. Hendr. C. Diferee, Hendrik Carel.
Het Gedenkboek 1813 : Uitgegeven Bij Het Eeuwfeest der Herwinning van Ons Selfstandig Volksbestaan
Het Gedenkboek 1813 : Uitgegeven Bij Het Eeuwfeest der Herwinning van Ons Selfstandig Volksbestaan

Het Gedenkboek 1813 : Uitgegeven Bij Het Eeuwfeest der Herwinning van Ons Selfstandig Volksbestaan

Amsterdam: Van Holkema & Warendorf. Hardcover. 4to. Very Good. Item #003072

[The Memorial Book 1813: Published at the Centenary of the Recovery of our Independent People's Existence]. [n.d., ca. 1913 per WorldCat]. Dutch. Half-bound in brown morocco with cream cloth boards. Gilt lettering to spine, raised spine bands, floral decoration to compartments. Gilt and colour armorial stamped framed vignette to front board. Yellow and white geometric endpapers. T.E.G. 419 p.p. 30 B&W plates + colour frontis, numerous B&W engravings and illustrations in-text throughout. Wear to morocco at corners of boards, rubbing to spine bands and ends, joints, a few scuffs to leather. Damp staining to cloth boards, soiling and scuffs to rear board, a few indentations, some soiling to inner edges of rear board. Chafing to decoration on front board. Small dark stain to fore edge of front board. Damp staining to fore edge. Light, intermittent staining and foxing. Hinge starting at p. 72. A treatment of the history of the independence of the Netherlands from the French in 1813. Coat of arms to front is that of Gijsbert Karel van Hogendorp, the 19th century Dutch politician who headed the commission that drafted the Constitution of the Netherlands in 1814.

Price: $145.00

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