[Leiden, Johannes de Vivie and Izaak Severinus, 1699]. Folio (33.9 x 22.0 cm). Letterpress title, Herault's poem, frontispiece engraving of a herault with index on verso; thirty-four engraved plates (one double-sized). Contemporary limp red-died and blind-stamped vellum, with large floral vignettes on front and rear board.

A very rare, separately published plate edition (presumably a pirate edition, given the absence of a publisher's name on the title) of a book titled Hollandse Jaar-boeken of Rijm-Kronijk van Melis Stoke. Behelsende De Geschiedenissen des Lands, onder de Princen van het eerste Huis, tot den Jare 1305. Met de afbeeldingen van alle de Hollandse graven, geschetst naar de Aaloude Schilderyen der Karmeliten te Haarlem. Nevens verscheide egte bylagen, betreffende de ware toestand der geschillen, tussen Graaf Floris de V, en de Hollandse edelen. Mitsgaders de beeldenisse van Heer Gerard van Velsen; en andre oude frayigheden, noit te voren in't ligt gebragt. Alles met noodige uitleggingen opgehelderd door Cornelis van Alkemade. In that edition, the plate index is wrong in including several plates that were never published. The author, Cornelis van Alkemade (1654-1737) was a Dutch lawyer, historian, and writer. For the introduction he took a poem by the 13th century Dutch poet and clerk, Melis Stoke (ca. 1235-ca. 1305). Provenance: the Mayor of the Dutch town of Bennebroek, David Thomassen à Thuessink van der Hoop van Slochteren (1910-1991) (loosely inserted letter, dated 13 May 1957, with an answer to his request to the Haarlem municipality secretary Henri Emile "Hans" Phaff (1914-2002), regarding this work). Added: a large, folded lose sheet of paper with, in an old hand, a genealogy of Dutch counts between 922 and 1581, including near all persons depicted in this work. One plate (ingewands kiste) smaller, apparently as published. Exceedingly rare. One copy in the library of the Nederlands Carmilitaans Instituut in Boxmeer. Google Books shows a copy lacking the double-sized plate with double portrait of Maria van Borgonje and Maximiliaan van Oostenrijk, and the symbolic plate of De Doot (Death). Boards and spine rubbed, especially at edges; one plate with a chip in the lower outer margin, well outside the printed surface; a few plates and versos toned due to the insertion of lower grade lose paper sheets; some minimal spotting, otherwise very good, complete.