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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ex Libris, post: 11525342, member: 14916&quot;]Happy New Year all!</p><p><br /></p><p>A new year, a new book for this wonderful forum. This time a description of the world, written by Cornelius Hazart (1617 - 1690), a Jesuit priest. The book is called &quot;Kerckelycke historie van de gheheele wereldt&quot; (The Ecclesiastical History of the Whole World) and was published from 1667 to 1671 in Antwerp by Michiel Cnobbaert.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>The series contains 4 folio books. Unfortunately the 4th volume lacks in my collection and is really hard to find...</p><p><br /></p><p>Volume 1: Asia and the America&#039;s</p><p>Volume 2: Southern en Central Africa, Germany and France</p><p>Volume 3: Netherlands and England</p><p>Volume 4: Turkiye, North Africa and Russia</p><p><br /></p><p>In these volumes there are more than hundred copper engravings. I just can post a few of them. I imagine often these are the only pictures a 17th century person did ever see about the rest of the world.</p><p><br /></p><p>The book is pure catholic propaganda of course from a Flemish Jesuit perspective. </p><p><br /></p><p>The frontispiece of the first volume. This page was designed by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_van_Diepenbeeck" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_van_Diepenbeeck" rel="nofollow">Abraham van Diepenbeecke</a> (closely related to Peter Paul Rubens) and engraved by Adriaen Lommelin.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]544305[/ATTACH] </p><p>The typographical title page of the first volume</p><p>[ATTACH=full]544306[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>The 3 volumes are bound in nice, typical Dutch vellum bindings. </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]544307[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>The main feature of these books are many page sized copper engravings by many artists. There are portraits, pictures of people around the world in their traditional clothes and pictures of Catholic martyrs (lot&#039;s of torturing).</p><p><br /></p><p>Japan</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]544308[/ATTACH] </p><p>China</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]544309[/ATTACH] </p><p>Florida</p><p>[ATTACH=full]544310[/ATTACH] </p><p>David, Emperor of Aethiopia</p><p>[ATTACH=full]544311[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Charles V, king of Spain</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]544312[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Mary Stuart of Scotland</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]544313[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Mass shooting in Canada</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]544315[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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