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Netherlands - Zeeland] - SCHARP, Jan - Geschiedenis en costumen van Axel. Behelzende eene plegtige kerkelyke reedenvoering, uitgesprooken op het tweehonderd-jaarig eeuw-feest der vryheid van gemele stad, staatelyk gevier op den zeeventienden van hooimaand des jaars 1786 (...). Middelburg, W. Abrahams, 1787-1788, 3 vol., 8vo, cont. half sheep (corners bumped and rubbed), flat spines (joints splitting and rubbed, def. at heads and tails), black leather title labels, green speckled edges, lxviii-208, 320, [2]-16-360-[1] pp. (some browning, waterstaining on upper margins of last pp. of vol. III). Good copy.
First ed. of this history on the Zeeland town Axel in the Netherlands by the Dutch preacher, poet and theologian J. Scharp (1756-1828). Engr. ills : frontisp. with coat-of-arms of Axel and Terneuzen in every vol., dedication headpiece (vol. I), 2 full-page pl. with music and 2 fold. pl. showing a panorama and a plan of Axel. Label "In pietate et studio pax mentis" pasted on inside frontcover. Mod. bookpl. Ref. STCN. COPAC. We join : Dresselhuis, J. - Het distrikt van Sluis in Vlaanderen beschouwd in deszelfs wording, natuurlijke, burgerlijke en zedelijke gesteldheid. Middelburg, S. van Benthem, 1819, 8vo, half green shagreen, spine on 4 raised bands (head and tail rubbed with sm. def.), marbled edges, xxvii-[1]-162-[2] pp. (min. browning, upper margins somewhat dampstained, ownership entry cut out of half title. Mod. bookpl. Annotations on title. (4 vol.)