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Author: D’Outrein, Johannes
Title: Wegwyser door de heerlykheid Roosendaal ofte, de Roosendaalsche vermakelykheden met een geestelyk en zedelyk ooge beschouwt en in digmaat gestelt ... de derde druk, grootelyks vermeerdert, met byvoeging van eene printverbeeldinge van de platte grond, en xix bysondere gesigten van Roosendaal. Ende eene beschryving van het leven van den HoogEd: Heere van Roosendaal.
Publication: Amsterdam, Gerard Van Keulen 1718.
Price: Sold
Reference: 11373
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4to. (40) + 88pp, engraved portrait, engraved coat of arms, large engraved folding plan (with neat old repair, without loss of engraved surface), (19) engraved folding plates numbered I-XVIII and IIIb. Contemporary quarter calf, marbled boards.
First illustrated edition of this volume by Johannes D’Outrein (1662-1722), describing in rhyming verse the splendours of the extensive formal gardens of Kasteel Roosendaal in the Southern Netherlands. The gardens had been laid out for Johan, Baron Van Arnhem and Heer Van Roosendaal (1636-1716), a substantial landowner highly regarded by his neighbours, and they incorporated fountains, an aviary, a mount surmounted by a summer house, and other characteristic features of gardens of the period, all well illustrated on the accompanying plates. Earlier unillustrated editions had appeared in 1700 and 1712, but the present edition is very much the best, and it also incorporates a biographical notice of Baron Van Arnhem, who had died since the publication of the edition of 1712 (he was a staunch Protestant Evangelical layman, and thus much approved of by D’Outrein, who was himself an Evangelical clergyman). Not in Berlin Cat.