[Hand-coloured and raised gilding] De Doorlughtige Weereld;

voorstellende een zeer nette Genealogische, Historische, en Politische Beschrijvingh aller tegenwoordig-levende Keyseren, Koningen, Vorsten, en Graven; nevens de Staten en Republiquen des geheelen Aerdbodems (...). Vertaeld door S. de Vries. Amsterdam, F. Halma/ J. van Oosterwijck, 1700, 3 vols, (40,725,(3); 631,(9); 512[=511],(13) p., engr. frontispiece, 14 flag plates, 2 folding plates and many illustrations of coats of arms in the text, all but one contemp. hand-coloured and raised with gilt and/or silver, contemporary uniformly gilt calfskin, gilt edges.

Morocco title labels partly missing, and has some other minor defects, apart from that an excellent, luxuriously coloured copy and as such very rare. With intriguing contemporary owner's mark in pen on the final endpaper of volume 2. Highly popular political and genealogical pocket encyclopedia, originally by Samuel Heinrich Schmidt, the first print of Die durchläuchtige Welt appeared in 1697.