[Hugo Grotius. Fine provenance] 2 titles: (1) Hugonis Grotii Annales et historiae

de rebus Belgicis. Amsterdam, J. Blaeu, 1657, (12),569,(22) p., w. woodcut printer's mark on title, engr. portrait of the author by W. Delff after M. van Miereveld, contemp. mottled calf, both sides with central the gilt coat of arms of archbishop Pierre Daniel Huet (1630-1721), folio.

Lacks first free endpaper. Joints splitting, spine ends and corners worn. Still an attractive copy from the library of Pierre Daniel Huet (or Huetius, 1630-1721), French churchman and scholar, editor of the Delphin Classics, founder of the Académie de Physique in Caen (1662-1672) and bishop of Soissons from 1685 to 1689 and later of Avranches. This copy with his letterpress anti-theft label in the lower margin of the title p.: "Ne extra hanc Bibliothecam efferatur. Ex obedientiâ." (Do not take this book outside the library. For reasons of obedience). Also from the library of Jonas Andries van Praag (1895-1969), with his bookplate and owner's entry in pen on upper pastedown. Ter Meulen & Diermanse, B.G. 741. First issue of the first edition, at the end the "Erratorum emendatio". And 1 other folio edition by the same, published by Ioh. & Cornelius Blaeu. (total 2)