La généalogie des illustres Comtes de Nassau nouvellement imprimée: Avec la description de toutes les victoires [...]. Deuxsiesme edition.

Folio: [82]-305-[2] pp. (sm. stains on front., occ. spotting, dampstaining on final pp.).

Contemp. overl. vellum, flat spine with ms. title. (rubbed, def. with loss of vellum at back cover, spotting).

Second edition of the French trsl. of this famous genealogy of the House of Nassau, followed by a detailed and illustrated account of the victories of Maurits of Nassau, by the Leiden town secretary J. Orlers (1570-1646). Title within elaborate engr. border. Engr. ill.: allegorical title with elaborate border with full-page arms of Nassau on verso, full-page portrait of Maurits of Nassau,, double-page map of the Low Countries, 41 (of 42) double-page views and maps showing battle scenes and views of Nova Zembla, Ostend, Sluis, Bergen op Zoom, Rynsberck etc., and 13 half-page portraits (in text). Plate of the battle of Admiral Heemskercke and 7 genealogical folding pl. lacking.
Ref. Haitsma Mulier/VdLem 362c. - Brunet IV:233. Simoni (BL) O-29. - STCN (i.a. BL). - BnF.
Prov. "De Weerd" (ms. ownership entry). - Libr. stamp.