Sesde Vervolg

Author: 
Leeuwenhoek, A. van
Publisher: 
Delft: Krooneveld
Year: 
1697

Full title

Sesde Vervolg der Brieven, geschreven aan verscheide Hooge Standspersonen en Geleerde Luijden

Sixth Continuation of the Letters, written to various High-standing Persons and Learned People

Dobell #16: Letters 97 - 107

It contained eleven letters written between late December 1695 and the end of September 1696.

AB/CL #: 163, 164, 165, 167, 168, 169, 170, 172, 174, 176, 177

The letters were addressed to:

Hendrik van Bleyswijk, 3 letters
Frederik Adriaan Van Reede, 3 letters
Nicolaas Witsen, 3 letters
Members of the Royal Society, 1 letter
Anthonie Heinsius, 1 letter

Pagination: iv + 173-342 + x (Blad-wyser & Drukfouten)

The front matter (left sidebar) had:

  • Title page
  • Two-page poem from Rabus

Poem

Op het Sesde Vervolg der Brieven van den Heere Antoni van Leeuwenhoek aan de Beminnaars der Regtschape Natuur-kunde.

On the Sixth Continuation of the Letters of Mr. Antoni van Leeuwenhoek to the Lovers of Knowledge of Nature.

by Pieter Rabus

dated 1696

[transcription and translation to come]

Letters

The letters were numbered and continuously paginated. Each was preceded by a summary of the contents.

Figures

The 32 figures were on 5 plates, one for each of the five letters that had figures.

Back matter

An index on ten unnumbered pages followed by a one-page errata (which itself has two typos!).

Blad-Wyser
Der voornaemste Zaken in dit Sesde Vervolg der Brieven begrepen.

Page-Pointer
of the chief Topics included in this Sixth Continuation of the Letters.

Drukfouten, dus te verbeteren.

Printing errors, thus improving.

This volume was reviewed by Rabus in Boekzaal, July and August 1697, pp. 119-127.