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ORLERS, Jean

La généalogie des illustres Comtes de Nassau nouvellement imprimée: Avec la description de toutes les victoires [...]. Deuxsiesme edition
Leyden
J. Orlers
1615
€700 - €900

Folio, [82]-305-[2] pp. Engr. ill.: allegorical title with elaborate border with full-page arms of Nassau on verso, full-page portrait of Maurice of Nassau, double-page map of the Low Countries, 42 double-page views and maps showing battle scenes and views of Nova Zembla, Ostend, Sluis, Bergen op Zoom, etc., and 13 half-page portraits (in text). Without the 7 genealogical pl. (often lacking) (marginal dampstaining to first 15 leaves). Mod. calf in style of period, gilt orn. spine with 6 raised bands

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 Maurice of Nassau, by the Leiden town secretary J. Orlers (1570-1646). Ref. Haitsma Mulier/VdLem 362c. - Brunet IV:233. - Simoni (BL) O-29. - STCN (i.a. BL). - BnF. Ex libris Van Schinne with his arms

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