76 796 Friesland Hamconius M
76/ 796 [Friesland]. (Hamconius, M.). (Frisia seu de viris rebusque Frisiae illustribus. Libri duo). Franeker, J. Lamrinck for J. Starter, 1620, 2nd enl. ed., (9),127 [=131],(4) lvs., 48 (of 53) full-p. portraits of Frisian rulers within woodcut borders by F. VAN HARLINGEN, ills. w. coats of arms, contemp. vellum, sm. 4to.

- Lacks title-p., 8 prelim. lvs. and 5 text lvs. (20, 38 and 50-52); a few lvs. cut sl. short and reattached (prob. from another copy); later endpapers; partly waterst. Sold w.a.f.

= Haitsma Mulier/ Van der Lem 204,a; De Wind p.348-349; Van Someren I, p.103-104; Hollstein VI, p.240; F.M. 89. The second and most desirable edition (first Münster, 1609), the first with the illustrations. The full-page portraits showing in the background places, buildings and scenes connected with the lives of the depicted persons.

€ (70-90) 150