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SEIZ, Johann Christiaan. Het derde Jublejaar der uitgevondene BoekDrukkonst, Behelzende een bknopt historis verhaal van de uitvinding der edele boekdrunkknost; ... door Johann Christiaan Seiz.
Te Haerlem: Gedrukt by Izaak en Johannes Enschede, ...1740. First edition. 8vo., full cont. vellum, (30), 258, (14), (2)pp. (*8, **2, **5, A-R8, [1]). With an engraved frontispiece, and five engraved plates including a folding plate. This copy has another work, unrelated to printing bound in at the rear; "Historische Krygs-Trompet........Door Thomas Vieroot. Amsterdam: Hendrik Vieroot, 1746. (24), 210, (8)pp.

"An account of the third centenary celebration at Haarlem of the invention of printing, with several plates representing the statue of Koster, his house, and six medals commemorating him. The first pages give a list of works relating to the invention of printing. In the early part of the 18th century doubts were rife, even in Holland, as to the claim of Koster. To remove those doubts, Seiz undertook to furnish a true and rational account of the invention. He brought forward an entirely new chronology, for which he gave no authority, and one that is to be attributed entirely to an imagination disordered by national pride." (Bigmore/Wyman). Bigmore & Wyman IIp.336.

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