Sale: 348 / Rare Books, Nov. 17./18. 2008 in Hamburg Lot 683

 
Niederlande - Meteren, E. von, Niederländischen Kriegs, 1627.


683
Niederlande
Meteren, E. von, Niederländischen Kriegs, 1627.
Estimate:
€ 250 / $ 268
Sold:
€ 240 / $ 256
(incl. surcharge)
Niederlande. - Meteren, E. von, Eygentliche und vollkommene Historische Beschreibung deß Niederländischen Kriegs: darin nicht allein auszführlich angezeigt, was sich denckwürdiges vom Jahr 1560, bisz auff 1620. zugetragen: Sondern auch deroselben Länder, Art, Eygenschafft, Herschung. Ingleichen auch was sich in Franckreich, Engelland, Ober Teutschland, Ungarn, Böheim, und anderswo begeben. Part I (of 2). With illustr. copper title and 46 copper plates with portraits (of 47). Amsterdam, J. Janson 1627. Contemp. vellum. Small folio. 2 ll., 1152 pp., 26 ll.
Graesse IV, 506. - First Amsterdam edition of the multiple published and extended chronic covering the period of the Dutch Revolt. This part covers the period up until 1605. - The nice portrait medallions, each with broad ornamental bordering, show people from European history, the first portrait shows the author. - Lacking the folding map of the Netherlands and the portrait of the Duke of Fuentes, instead the portrait of E. van Ackerens additionally bound in. - Somewhat stained and waterstained in places, 1 l. with rebacked marginal tear, 1 copper with rebacked marginal defects, front inner joint somewhat loosened, title with old ownership entry of the princess Marie Amalie of Nassau Dietz (dated 1744).



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683
Niederlande
Meteren, E. von, Niederländischen Kriegs, 1627.
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