Live auction - Lot 1038
[Louvain]
Historiae Belgicae liber singularis, de obsidione Lovaniensi anni M. DC. XXXV.
Antwerp, J. Knobbaert, 1636
€ 120 / 200
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Lot description
24mo: [20]-179-[9] pp. (toned, some thumbing, tiny hole in 4 ff. in 1 fold. pl.).
17th-c. overl. vellum, flat spine titled in ink. Acceptable copy.
Eyewitness account by the Louvain professor Puteanus (1574-1646) of the Siege of Louvain by French and Dutch troops in June 1635. Ill. with 2 folding engr. plates (i.a. map of Louvain). Woodcut mark on title. Ref. STCV 6676994. - Bibl. Belg. IV:803-804 P-261. Bound with : Id. – Historiae barbaricae libri VI. qui eruptiones barbarorum in Italiam, occasum Imperii, et res Insubrum continent. Ibidem, 1634. 24mo: [14]-149-[17, 12 bl.] pp. Repr. of the 1614 “Historiae Cisalpinae l. III”, a history of Milan and Lombardy until 973 A.D. Woodcut mark on title. Ref. STCV 6603150. - Bibl. Belg. IV:778 P-196 [and] Id. - Historiae Medicaeae libri duo [...]. Accedit Galeatii Capellae De bello Mussiano liber singularis. Ibidem, 1634. 24mo: [4]-161-[2, 1 bl.] pp. On the heroic defense of Musso by G.G. de’ Medici in 1525. Woodcut mark on title. Full-page portrait of Medici. Ref. STCV 6668297. - Bibl. Belg. IV:776-777 P-193. Prov. Name on front flyleaf 1st work "A. Angillis" (1830-1870, West-Flemish notary, archivist and writer).