Den slagh van Leckerbetjen teghens den Heere van Breauté voorgevallen op de Vughter-Heyde ontrent sHertogen-Bossche den 5. Februarii 1600.

8vo: [28] ff. (spotted).

19th-c. half calf (rubbed at joints), gilt flat spine (head and tail def.), marbl. endpapers. Good uncut copy.

“The Battle of Lekkerbeetje or Lekkerbeetken (5 February 1600) was a cavalry duel fought by pre-arrangement on Vughterheide near s-Hertogenbosch, North Brabant, between 22 Brabantine cavalrymen loyal to Albert VII, Archduke of Austria, garrisoned in s-Hertogenbosch, and 22 French cavalrymen serving in the army of the Dutch Republic. [...] The fighting of a mass cavalry duel was a practice more familiar from chivalric romances than from the warfare of the time, and the small engagement made a great impression on contemporaries” (Wikipedia). Gothic type within double ruled border. Ref. STCV (only copy in SESA-Mechelen). - Sabbe (Brabant in t verweer) 149. - Opac KBR (1).