4to. Volume I: xliv, 493 pp. + [1 errata] / Volume II: 488 pp. + [1 errata] / Volume III: 501 pp. + [1 errata], small worm hole at lower margin of front endpaper, the title page, the map and the first two pages without any loss to text/ Volume IV: 815 pp. + [1 errata] / Volume V: 719 pp. + [1 errata]/ Volume VI: 488 pp./ Volume VII: 719 pp. / Volume VIII: 583 pp., contemporary full calf, title gilt on raised decorated spine consisting of six compartments, half-titles, titles printed in red & black, book plate of previous owner verso front covers, some foxing to endpaper, frontispiece by Eisen, 56 engraved plates, 6 folding maps, 1 folding plan, 3 plates are folding, portrait of Flipart & Ingouf, numerous vignettes, set in good condition, Paris: P. G. Simon, 1757-1770.

Synopsis

“First edition of a massive work (comprising 4.800 text-pp.) on the history of the Netherlands by the French historian Bénigne Dujardin
(1689-ca. 1771) & the German academic Gottfried Sellius (ca. 1704-1767) illustrated with portraits of Dutch historical figures and maps of the Netherlands & New Guinea (“Carte Des Isles de Papous”, ca. 34 x 36 cm.)” [Brunet III, 204.]