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[GALLE, Philip]

Sommaire annotation des choses plus memorables aduenues de iour à autre és XVII. prouinces du païs bas, dés l’an LXVI. iusques au premier iour de l’an LXXIX.
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Christofle Plantin
1579
€1.400 - €1.800

8vo: [24] ff. The initial text was intended to be pasted around Ph. Galle's wall-map of the Netherlands. Ornament on title. (cut short, sl. toned). 18th-c. polished calf, richly gilt spine with 5 raised bands, gilt sides, red sp. edges, marbled endpapers, green silk marker, filled up with blank paper. Good copy

One of 3 editions of a chronology of the major events of the Dutch Revolt 1566-1578.
Ref. BT 1217. - Voet (Plantin Press) 1231B. - Pettegree FB 22257 = NB 12802. - Not in Adams, BL (STC Dutch or French), Knuttel, Sorgeloos. Prov. ""G.J. de Servais"", i.e. the Mechelen botanist and bibliophile Gaspar Joseph de Servais (1735-1807) (18th-c. ownership entry (crossed out)). - ""S.A. Thompson Yates"", i.e. Samuel Ashton Thompson Yates (1842-1903), curate in Lytham and founder of the Thompson Yates medical laboratory at Liverpool University (armorial bookpl.; collection sold 2014)

Wars of religion