- First 6 textleaves and interleaved leaves sl. waterstained and w. worn/ dogeared outer corners; one leaf w. tear in lower margin (paper flaw); scattered, probably contemp., marks in red pencil in blank margin; some scattered instances of child's scribbling in pencil on blank interleaved leaves; occas. fingersoiled; traces of former bookplate on upper pastedown. Spine sl. rubbed.
= Extremely rare early and interesting interleaved copy, w. numerous near contemp. annotations in various hands and owner's entries of "Ph.[ilibert] de Tuÿll de Serooskerque" [1580-1639] and "J. [Hieronymous] de Tuÿll de Serooskerck 1643" [1615-1669]). Nijhoff & Kronenberg 1285 (collation calling for K4 (not present in our copy); STCV 12924153 ("lacks K4, blank"); not in Belg. Typogr. (cf. BT 1702); not in Bibl. Belg. Very rare edition (no copy in JAP) of the charter of the Dutch province of Zeeland, granted by Philips of Austria in 1492. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XCIX.