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Auction archive: Lot number 525

COURT, Pieter de la. The True Interest and Political Maxims of the Republick of Holland and West-Friesland, in three parts ... written by John de Witt and other great men in Holland, London: printed in the year 1702. 8°, engraved portrait frontispiec...

Auction 21.06.2004
21 Jun 2004
Estimate
£700 - £1,000
ca. US$1,279 - US$1,827
Price realised:
£836
ca. US$1,527
Auction archive: Lot number 525

COURT, Pieter de la. The True Interest and Political Maxims of the Republick of Holland and West-Friesland, in three parts ... written by John de Witt and other great men in Holland, London: printed in the year 1702. 8°, engraved portrait frontispiec...

Auction 21.06.2004
21 Jun 2004
Estimate
£700 - £1,000
ca. US$1,279 - US$1,827
Price realised:
£836
ca. US$1,527
Beschreibung:

COURT, Pieter de la. The True Interest and Political Maxims of the Republick of Holland and West-Friesland, in three parts ... written by John de Witt and other great men in Holland, London: printed in the year 1702. 8°, engraved portrait frontispiece, contemporary panelled calf (joints splitting, rubbed). FIRST EDITION THUS. Wrongly attributed to Jan de Witt; and in fact by Pieter de la Court, this work comprises a translation of Aanwissing der heilsams politike Gronden en Maximen van de Republike van Holland , 1669, and a revised and enlarged edition of Interest van Holland , published in 1662 without the author's consent and with enlargements by Jan de Witt. Goldsmiths' 3864. With 36 other volumes including Bernard Mandeville's The Fable of the Bees: or, Private Vices, Publick Benefits (London, 1724). (37)

Auction archive: Lot number 525
Auction:
Datum:
21 Jun 2004
Auction house:
Christie's
Chirk Castle
Beschreibung:

COURT, Pieter de la. The True Interest and Political Maxims of the Republick of Holland and West-Friesland, in three parts ... written by John de Witt and other great men in Holland, London: printed in the year 1702. 8°, engraved portrait frontispiece, contemporary panelled calf (joints splitting, rubbed). FIRST EDITION THUS. Wrongly attributed to Jan de Witt; and in fact by Pieter de la Court, this work comprises a translation of Aanwissing der heilsams politike Gronden en Maximen van de Republike van Holland , 1669, and a revised and enlarged edition of Interest van Holland , published in 1662 without the author's consent and with enlargements by Jan de Witt. Goldsmiths' 3864. With 36 other volumes including Bernard Mandeville's The Fable of the Bees: or, Private Vices, Publick Benefits (London, 1724). (37)

Auction archive: Lot number 525
Auction:
Datum:
21 Jun 2004
Auction house:
Christie's
Chirk Castle
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