Description de touts les Pays-Bas [...].

Folio: [8 (of 12) incl. engr. title]-483-[27]-[2] pp.; 80 (of 93) + 2 plates (13 pl. missing: Nederlanden, Zaltbommel, Emden, Alkmaar, Schoonhoven, Gorinchem, Rotterdam, Geertruidenberg, Veere, Arnemuide, Oostende, Brielle, Saint-Omer; 4 text pages missing: G2/75-76 and G5/81-82, changed order of a few engr., sl. browned, some ms. notes).

Contemp. overlapping vellum.

First edition published in the Northern Netherlands based upon the 1582 Plantin edition, but with all copperplates newly engraved. The text by François de Belleforest was revised by Petrus Montanus. Beside the 13 missing pl., this volume has 2 pl. added: a 2nd engr. of Middelburg (Middelburg-3) and a plate of Rheinberg (Rheinberg 1-1). The engr. title refers to the Twelve Years' Truce agreed in Antwerp on 9 April 1609 and symbolises the cessation of hostilities between the Habsburg rulers of Spain and the Southern Netherlands and the Dutch Republic.
Ref. Guicciardini Illustratus 9 Claesz 1609 (French).