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GOEREE, Willem.
Mosaize Historie der Hebreeuwse Kerke.
Publisher: Amsterdam: Willem and David Goeree, 1700
Stock code: 39462
Price: £2,500 Currency Conversion
First edition of this grand publication. Goeree (1635–1711) was born in Middelburg, and was a printer and bookseller, first in his home town (1666–77), later in Amsterdam. He was the author of several scholarly works on Jewish antiquities, as well as manuals on painting, drawing and colouring, and works on history and architecture. Eight of the engravings here are signed; one by the author's son, Jan Goeree (1660–1726); one by Goeree with Jacob Baptist; one after Poussin; one by Michel Penninghen (d. 1723?); and four by the celebrated engraver Jan van den Vianen (1660–1726), pupil of Romeyn de Hooghe. The four title-vignettes are signed by the Dutch Mennonite Jan van Luyken (1649–1712), lyric poet and illustrator, who also worked in the baroque manner of Romeyn de Hooghe.
4 volumes, folio. Contemporary vellum, sides panelled in blind enclosing a central arabesque stamped in blind, red morocco lettering-pieces, speckled edges. Copperplate titles by Jan Luyken, letter press titles printed in red and black, fine (folded) portrait of Willem Goeree, 74 copperplates (5 folding, 2 double-page, 30 full-page; including 37 views, of which 21 are folding and 16 double-page, 5 maps on 4 plates, 12 illustrations in the text. A little light soiling of bindings, upper joint just splitting at head of vol. I, a few plates lightly browned. A handsome set, in an attractive contemporary vellum binding.
