Live auction - Lot 741
[Dutch Revolt]
De thien eerste boecken der Neder-lantsche oorloghe [...]. Ende verduytscht door Guilliam van Aelst [...].
Antwerp, Wid. J. Cnobbaert [= Marie de Man], 1645
Hammer price: €
440
€ 150 / 200
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Lot description
Folio: [8 incl. front. "Leo Belgicus"]-414-[56] pp.; 24 pl. (title and engr. title partly underlaid and soiled, some dampstaining throughout, more obtrusive in the begin. and end, ink stain on few pp., some spotting).
Contemp. overl. vellum, flat spine (endpapers renewed, soiled, head and tail damaged, sm. parts of spine missing).
First Dutch translation of the history of the Dutch Revolt by the Jesuit scholar Strada (1572-1649). Ill. with a front. depicting the "Leo Belgicus", an engr. title, 13 full-page portraits in medallion and 11 double-page pl. Extensive register at the end. Title in red and black.
Ref. BB:V:271:S-72. - DBS VII:1613. - Van der Heijden, Leo Belgicus, p. 49.
Prov. Guiluilmus de G[...]" (ms. entry on last f. and initial on edge).