Description: Beginnende van d’eerste Geheuchenis ende vol-trocken tot op het Iaar na Christi Geboorte 1583 [..]. Tot Franeker, By Ian Boudewyns Wellens [..], 1658. 2 Parts in 1 vol.: [32],929,[25 index],148 pp. With engraved title, 17 engraved portraits & 1 engraved plate (dep. the coat-of-arms of Friesland). Small folio, 17th-cent. blindst. panelled vellum with ribbed spine. ? Eekhoff p. 281. Haitsma Mulier/ Van der Lem 429b. Bodel Nijenhuis 2636. Knuttel (Kerkgeschiedenis) pp. 293-294. Van Someren I, 69a. Rare first edition (only 2 copies in NCC) of a historical work on East & West Frisia by the Dutch minister Christianus Schotanus à Sterringa (1603-1671). – A few small defects (upper joint split, lower joint partly splitting, sl. waterstained in outer blank margins, a few leaves with small ink-stain in outer blank margin), but altogether in good condition.