Small folio with beautiful 16th-century woodcuts

Jan Severs, Cornelius Aurelius & Ellert de Veer - Die cronycke van Hollandt, Zeelandt ende Vrieslant - Beghinnende van Adams tijden tot die Gheboorte ons Heeren Jesum voortgaende tot den jare 1517 (...) hier is by ghevoecht het tweede deel (...) vanden jare 1516 totten jare 91. en bijgebonden: Historie ofte wiider verclarringhe van de Nederlantsche gheschiedenissen (...) vanden jare 1566, totten uitganghe vanden jare 90. plus een appendix en een register - Dordrecht, Peeter Verhaghen, en Amsterdam, Cornelis Claesz - 1591 and 1590 - (8),(2),264,(6),162,130,(8),(4) - Hardcover (small folio, half-leather) - 28 × 20 cm.

Condition: very good; Interior good, very clear print and with beautiful woodcuts (see pictures). Occasional water spots and several worm holes (see photos). Sometimes the book is cut a bit too short but without severe consequences (see pictures). There are 3 title pages with large woodcuts and otherwise the book is complete with 36 woodcuts in the text, and all portraits (of the counts of Holland). The book has a new binding and endpapers, title in brown and gilt print on spine (see pictures).

This is the so-called “Divisie-Kroniek” and as such the 4th edition in which the third volume is included for the first time. The author of the chronicle is Cornelius Aurelius (c. 1460-1531) with Jan Severs, the first edition of that book was published in 1517. The second volume and the third volume and the appendix by E.D.V. (= Ellert de Veer, after 1540-1599).