SPL Hand Coloured Rare Book Collection Featuring Norman R Bobins

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[DUTCH/FRANCE]
Bij gelegenheid van het installeeren der door de volksstem verkozene representanten dier stad en de alliantie gesloten tusschen de Fransche en Bataafsche Republieken.

The old (French) republic was replaced by the Batavian Republic, and the political modernization of the Netherlands began—a process that would take more than half a century and pass through many vicissitudes, yet it was one marked by an extraordinary lack of violence. The Batavian Republic lasted 11 years, during which it proclaimed the sovereignty of the people but was in many respects a protectorate of France. The organization of government had to be approved not only by the Dutch people but also by whatever government happened to be in control in France.

Published
Amsterdam: D.M. Langeveld, 1795.
References
Muller 5407a, 5407b: Atlas van Stolk 5536; Landwehr, Col. Pl. Books 240; Lipperheide Sm 13 (incomplete copy)
Plates
15
Binding/Size
S=8vo
Value
0-5000
Published
Amsterdam: D.M. Langeveld, 1795.
Ref
914

[On the occasion of the installation of the representatives of that city elected by popular vote and the alliance concluded between the French and Batavian Republics.] 8vo. Early 20th-century calf with gilt title printed on front cover. Hand-coloured engraved title vignette, 15 hand-coloured engraved full-page plates, all heightened with gold. 68 pp. A fine copy of the FIRST and only EDITION of this book on the festival ceremonies in Amsterdam on the occasion of the alliance of the French and 'Batavian' (Dutch) republic in 1795. The finely and beautifully coloured plates illustrate the 15 different allegorical wooden arches and stages with statuaries built on the public squares throughout Amsterdam to celebrate this the Netherlands' most important political event making an end to the old Dutch Republic of the Seven United Provinces with all its institutions. One plate (15) is with the extra figures later engraved before the gates. (Muller mentions two such plates referring to this edition as nr. 5407b). Coloured plates in order: 1. Kunsten en wetenschapppen op de Noordermarkt. 2.Vernietiging der aristocratie op de Westermarkt. 3. De revolutie op het Burgerplein. 4. De vernietiging der oude constitutie op de Botermark. 5. Het volksbewind gevestigd op het Amstelveld. 6. Vrijheid, broederschap, gelijkheid op de Hoogesluis. 7. De vlucht van Willem de V. in de Plantagie. 8. De vernietiging van het stadhouderschap in de Plantagie. 9. Algemeene wapening op het Kadyks plijn. 10. Koophandel en zeevaart op de Nieuwmarkt. 11.Vergadering van de gedeputeerdens der Bataafsche clubs,. Eenige .... van het Revolutieplein te zien. 12. Aanstaande eenheid en onverdeelbaarheid van het Bataafs Gemenebest en de Alliantie op het Revolutie plein. 13. Vergadering van de gedeputeerdens der Bataafsche clubs,. Eenige ...van het Rokin te zien. 14. De poort voor t'zee comptoir. 15. De poort voor het magazin