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CHAPPUYS, Gabriel

Histoire generale de la guerre de Flandre [...] contenant toutes les choses memorables advenues en icelle depuis l'an M.D.LIX. jusques à present.
Paris
R. Fouet
1623
€200 - €300

4to, [26]-687, [4]-54-[6]-55/628-[24] pp.; 9 pl. (title partly underl., some spotting). Engr. ill.: large printer's mark on title, 2 full-page pl. showing 24 portraits of the sovereigns of both sides (Charles V, Philips II, Albert & Isabella, Alva, Alexander Farnese, Princes of Orange William and Maurice, Egmont & Hoorne, Robert Dudley,...), joined by a descriptive text leaf, and 7 folding plates showing battles, fortifications and sieges (Ostend, Bergen op Zoom, Cambrai, Hulst, Rheinberg, the bridge of Parma and a pl. depicting all the cities taken by the Marquis de Spinola), most signed A. Huberti. Title in red and black. Large woodcut printer's mark at the end, sm. woodcut mark on part title. Contemporary calf binding, spine gilt, ends of spine worn

Very rare second ed. (1st 1611) of this extensive historical work by G. Chappuys (1546-1613), the successor of Francois de Belleforest as historiographer of France. The first ed. treated events until 1609, our ed. is actualized to 1623.
Ref. BnF. - Not in Goldsmith (BL). - Prov. Bookpl. erased