Found a really old book at my grandparents house years ago while cleaning up after they passed away. Completely forgot about it until now, thought you guys might be interested.
Found a really old book at my grandparents house years ago while cleaning up after they passed away...
Elijah Gomez
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Ian Sullivan
what's it about?
Levi Edwards
Sorry if these keep posting horizontally, I'll take landscape photos from now on if this one comes out sideways
Nathan Campbell
>Sorry if these keep posting horizontally
Pro tip: Crop the image a bit and it should be posted the way it's in you device (vertically). Yea Forums's system is weird.
Oliver Mitchell
My grandparents were Dutch, so it's no surprise that it's all in Dutch
Landon Campbell
Gonna try a different resolution, hopefully this works
Isaac White
Nope, still the same. I'll just take landscape photos.
I've never held something that feels as old as this book... everything about this thing is delicate. Any Dutchfags out there have some information on it?
Jackson Baker
Might be worth a lot, even in that condition
Brayden Lewis
That's so interesting, especially the blockprint!
Zachary Barnes
Looks to be separated into different volumes, so I'm not sure what the exact publish date is
Jason Kelly
Did you have Dutch ancestors?
David Johnson
Both grandparents were Dutch. Looks like it was gifted to my grandfather in 1968
Jonathan Torres
looked it up all i found was this:
Owen Hall
perfect for a lolbutthurt macro
Austin Ross
Could you translate the cover?
Jackson Nelson
Found it
Samuel Cooper
Congrats. Your grandparents were into 18th century Dutch smut.
Elijah King
Or just domestic abuse
Gavin Phillips
I own a bunch of old books too, some 20 or so of which date back to the 18th century and earlier.
I once posted a few of them here, but Warosu is under maintenance at the moment, so I can't link the archived thread.
Zachary Edwards
Looks like a picaresque long poem. Makes sense, since Spaniards were masters of the picaresque novel and, for obvious reasons, must have had some influence among the Dutch.
Christopher Walker
Getting rowdy with the lads est. 1720
Elijah Robinson
This is an illustration from a girl's school yearbook from the 1920s.
David Diaz
very cool user
Joseph Ortiz
these illustrations are fantastic
John Green
Bump.
Jayden Williams
OP here. This book may very well be 300 years old:
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Carter Williams
So it's Martial and Juvenal selections with illustrations? From the publisher Henderick Bosch or Hendrick Bosch. Cool. I was just reading Tale of the Tub, from around the same time, and it really gives you that feeling of how fucking rowdy an early 18th century city was, how quickly the press moved, what kinds of things people read for fun and satire.
Michael Jones
A book that just had it's 300th birthday. Congrats, OP. My oldest volume is 1784.
Aiden Long
bump
Alexander Hughes
well it says right here () that it's from the 1700s
Ethan Stewart
refer to
Josiah Perez
1721. They wouldn't bother resetting all the older galleys just to complete or update, so you get both dates (and they might have had bindings waiting: printing was a fucking big project back then). Still, since the first stage of typesetting is from 1718, the book is legitimately three centuries old, and a lovely rarity. Don't sell it casually.
Levi Baker
You can try on archived.moe
Easton Martin
Dutchfag here, it appears you've inherited an 18th century bundle of shitposts. 'Schimpdigten' roughly translate to 'satirical rhyme'. From what pictures you posted, it seems to depict 18th century Dutch society, ridiculing habits and noteworthy people at the time. I don't think it has a coherent storyline from what I've read so far.
I'd urge you to take good care of it.