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FONTEYNE, Claude

Treur-Statighe Uyt-Vaert, ofte Begraeffenisse des ont-zielden Lichaems, van den On-vertsaeghden, ende seer Strijdtbaren Krijghs-Heldt, Ernest Casimyr, Graeff tot Nassauw
Leeuwarden
Claude Fonteyne
1634
€700 - €900

In-folio oblong (25,5 x 56 cm), 20 finely engraved plates. With 3 leaves of letterpress text at end. Lacking the engraved title as usual (not mentioned by Landwehr). The finely engraved plates show the sumptuous funeral procession mourning and honoring COUNT ERNST CASIMIR, Stadtholder of Friesland and Groningen, who was fatally wounded in battle during the siege of Roermond in June 1632. These illustrations show the full cortege. Contemporary full calf binding, with rich blind-tooling, some traces of used, corners and ends of spine bumped

"VERY RARE. Ref. Landwehr, Splendid Ceremonies, 86 ; Muller 1687 ; Van Stolk II, 1746"