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Hendrik & the Widow of Theodor Boom, Amsterdam. 1703. Small 8vo, [ii],118pp., later mustard wrappers, 785 + 581 + 748 lots. The rare sale catalogue of the “handsomely bound” library of a late seventeenth-century Dutch divine whom a contemporary manuscript note qualifies as “Pontificiis sacris addictus.” Cromhout may have been a descendant of the sixteenth-century Adriaan who played an important role in the liberation of the Netherlands (see ADB). Only 2 other copies recorded; Bibliothek Wolfenbuttel & Bibliotheque National de France. From the library of Bernard Breslauer, New York. |
