Online auction - Lot 330

[Low Countries - Eighty Years' War]

BAUDARTIUS, Guilielmus

Viva delineatio, ac descriptio omnium proeliorum, obsidionum, aliarumque rerum memoratu dignarum quae, durante bello adversus Hispaniarum Regem in Belgii provinciis gestae sunt [...]. [= Les Guerres de Nassau [...].

Amsterdam, M. Colijn, 1622 [= 1616]


Starting bid: € 320

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Lot description

2 parts in 1 vol., oblong 4to (n.c., toned, some ff. loose or loosening, some foxing and soiling, 1st ff. with water stains, last ff. with sm. wormholes, occ. sm. tears).

Contemp. vellum, flat spine (head loosening, sm. wormholes on cover, some soiling). S.w.a.f.

Incomplete and hybrid copy of the French translation of "Afbeeldinghe, ende beschrijvinghe van alle de veld-slagen, ghevallen in de Nederlanden [...]" (Amsterdam, 1615) by the Dutch theologian and Hhistorian Baudartius (1565-1640). The four 1st ff. (half-title, title, and introduction) come from the Latin edition of 1622. It consists of a narration of the 1559-1615 wars in the Low Countries, ill. with 1 engr. front. and 79 full-page engravings figuring views of cities, battles and battlefields, tortures, executions, etc. The ill. are identical in the Dutch, French and Latin editions.
Ref. STCN. - USTC 1514875. - BB I:205:B-113.
Prov. Contemp. ms. entries on title. - R. Spence (ex-libris, 19th c.).

Lot 330

Viva delineatio, ac descriptio omnium proeliorum, obsidionum, aliarumque rerum memoratu dignarum quae, durante bello adversus Hispaniarum Regem in Belgii provinciis gestae sunt [...]. [= Les Guerres de Nassau [...].

BAUDARTIUS, Guilielmus

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