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  • An educational treatise in leather by H.S.van Alphen dated 1708.
  • An educational treatise in leather by H.S.van Alphen dated 1708.
  • An educational treatise in leather by H.S.van Alphen dated 1708.
  • An educational treatise in leather by H.S.van Alphen dated 1708.
  • An educational treatise in leather by H.S.van Alphen dated 1708.
  • An educational treatise in leather by H.S.van Alphen dated 1708.
  • An educational treatise in leather by H.S.van Alphen dated 1708.
  • An educational treatise in leather by H.S.van Alphen dated 1708.
An educational treatise in leather by H.S.van Alphen dated 1708.

145 €


A book. Size: 22 x 17 x 7 cm. Bound in original leather cover. Complete, but in need of rebinding. The book contains an elaborate educational script on all sorts of subjects, religious as well as practical. Partially in gothic lettering. By Professor Hieronymus Simonsz. van Alphen (1665-1742) dated 1708. The author, before becoming a professor of Theology in Utrecht, was preacher in Amsterdam.  

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