Den slagh van Leckerbetjen teghens den Heere van Breauté.

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. In the end the Brabantine cavalrymen prevailed. Gothic type within double ruled border.
Ref. STCV (only in SESA-Mechelen). - Sabbe (Brabant in 't verweer) 149. - Opac KBR.