Two convolutes with 3, respectively 2, titles: (1) (C. Huygens). Den herstelden prins

tot stadt-houder ende capiteyn generaal vande Vereenighde Nederlanden, (...). (C. Huygens). Amsterdam, Joan Cyprianus van der Gracht, 1663, (16),122,(4) pp., woodcut coat-of-arms on title-p., contemp. overlapping vellum w. (worn) paper letterpiece on spine, sm. 8vo.

Knuttel 8806a; Geyl, no. 14. Bound with: (2) Toetze op het laster-schrift, t'onrecht genaamt Stadhouderlyke regeeringe van Holland en West -Vriesland. Door D.P.E. Leyden, J. Princen, 1662, 126,(2) p. Knuttel 8855c; Geyl, no. 13. And bound with: (3) (Jean Nicolas de Parival). Ware interest van Holland. Gebouwt op de ruïnen van den Interest van Holland, onlangs uitgegeven door D.V.H. (= Van der Hoven = Pieter de la Court). Toegeeygent aen de dochter van de tijt, Door I.N.D.P. (= Jean Nicolas de Parival). Ibid., idem, 1662, 208 [= 216] p. Page-numbering 129-136 present twice. Knuttel 8653b. With: Convolute with 2 titles: (4) (Pieter de la Court). Interest van Holland, ofte Gronden van Hollands-Welvaren. Aangewezen door V.D.H. (= Pieter de la Court). De laeste druck vermeerdert en verbeterd. Amst., J. Cyprianus van der Gracht, 1662, (16),267,(5) p., contemp. vellum, 12mo. Pastedowns detached from boards. Frontcover stained; spine and backcover with dent from former auction-lot binding cord. Wildenberg 1044; cf. Knuttel, Verboden Boeken, no. 4 (first edition published in the same year). The work caused a stir upon publication and it was called dangerous and scandalous by the church and its clergyman. De la Court defended himself by stating that it had been published without his consent and that he denounced parts that were not from his pen. The work has been attributed to Johan de Witt (French and English translations (see the following lot) were published under his name). The truth has never been proven. Even the edition of 1669 was forbidden and in 1789 the work was banished again. Bound with: (5) Idem. Naeuwkeurige consideratie van staet, wegens de heerschappye van een vrye en geheymen staets-regeringh over de gansche Aertbodem. Aengewezen door V.D.H. Ibid., idem, 1662, 264 [= 263] p. First quire loose and lacking A2 (as in the digitised version). Not in Wildenberg. Added: Ivo W. Wildenberg, Pieter de la Court 1685-1985. Tentoonstellingscatalogus (1985), with interesting background information on the publications by Pieter de la Court. (total 6 works in 3 vols.)