Van t’beghin der eerster volcken van Europen, in-sonderheyt vanden oorspronck ende saecken der Neder-Landren [!], XXIII boecken [..]. Ende dat de Neder-Landren [!] [..] ghenaemt Kelten, ghecomen uuten Hebreen [...] verre te boven gaen den Griecken ende Romainen in ouderdom ende spraecke.

Folio: [36]-560-[319-1 bl.] pp. (lacking engraved portrait; dampstain in top inner margin of final ff.).

Contemp. overl. vellum, flat spine titled in ink (head def.). Very good copy.

First edition, first issue of this monumental "linguistic" history of Europe by the Flemish nobleman A. van Schrieck (1560-1621) "proving" that the Flemish language is older than and superior to Hebrew, Greek and Latin! The work is dedicated to Albert and Isabella. Engraved front. and author’s coat of arms by Guillaume du Tielt.
Ref. STCV 3119787. - Diegerick 40. - Simoni (BL) S-83.
Prov. Old ownership entries on flyleaves, i.a. "M. Tydeman", i.e. Meinard Tydeman (1741-1825), historian and law professor at Harderwijk, Utrecht and Leiden, and the 1st professor giving courses on Dutch linguistics (at Harderwijk).
Joined: Id. - Monitorum secundorum libri V. quibus Originum [...] opus [...] e fontibus Hebraicis […] deducit, probat, firmatque [...]. De vera et falsa origine monimentum sive Europa rediviva. Ibidem, 1615. Folio: [26]-63-[1 bl.-60] pp. Contemp. vellum, flat spine titled in ink (endpapers lifted). Elaborate refutation of the criticisms on "Van t’beghin” (1614). Hebrew quotations in text, and "etymological" dictionary at the end. Ref. STCV 3119772. - Diegerick 41. - Simoni S-84 (II). (2 vol.)
Both works belong to each other but are seldom found together. Probably the only folio books printed at Ypres.