Description & representation de toutes les victoires tant par eau que par terre, lesquelles Dieu a octroiees aux nobles, hauts & puissants Seigneurs, Messeignrs les Etats des Provinces Unies du Païs-bas, souz la conduite & gouvernement de son Excellence, le Prince Maurice de Nassau.

Leiden, J.J. Orlers & H. de Haestens, 1612

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Folio: [6 (of 8)]-282 (= 284) pp. (lacking half title, verso of title (coat of arms) doubled with Japan paper, blank margin of pl. 17 rep., some colouring on pl. 19, pl. 32 exp. rep.; some soiling or browning, some dampstaining at top and bottom, plates browned).

Modern calf, richly gilt spine with 5 raised bands (sl. discol.), gilt sides, mod. endpapers. Good copy.

First French translation of "Den Nassauschen Lauren-crans" by Orlers (1570-1646), first publ. in 1610. Engr. ill.: title, full-page coat of arms (verso of title), full-page portr. of Maurice of Nassau by J. Matham and 43 double-page plates depicting views of battles, ground plans of Deventer, Hulst, Nijmegen, Steenwijck, Coevoorden, Turnhout, Tienen, Ostend, views of Nova Zembla, the Canaries, Gibraltar, etc. and incl. 2 maps i.a. "Belgiae inferioris descriptio emendata cum circu[m] jacentium regionum confinijs".
Ref. Haitsma Mulier/Vd Lem 362 a. - Simoni O-31. - STCN (i.a. BL).
Prov. Libr. stamp.