In-folio, [viii]- 163- [15] pp. Illustrated with an engraved title by Cornelis Galle after RUBENS, with 7 double plates, 6 full-page engravings and 2 text engravings by Théodore Galle or the Bolswert brothers. (wormhole in the inner margin). Followed by : Hugo GROTIUS. Grollae Obsidio cum annexis Anni 1627 Amstelredami, Guilielum Blaeuw, 1629. 26 pp, ill. with 5 engraved plates (4 of which folding). Woodcut printer's device on title page (globe, with the motto: indefessus agendo). Followed by : Daniel HEINSIUS. Rerum ad Syvlam-ducis atque alibi in Belgio aut a Belgis anno 1629 gestarum historia. Leiden, ex off. Elzeviriorum, 1631. [xii]-141(=143)-[23-1 bl.] pp. Ill. with an engraved title-page (Cornelis Cl. Duysend), 5 full-page and 5 double-page (2 folding) maps, plans and fortifications. The 3 books bound together in contemporary vellum. It is not uncommon to find book 1 and 3 bound together, but the middle book is scarcer
1) De Backer-Sommervogel IV-520 ; Voet I, 213 ; Burchard, Corp. Rub. I 1/55 et ill. 190. Second Latin edition, on the capture of Breda in 1625 by King Philippe IV of Spain and the Marquess of Spinola. Written by the Jesuit poet and historian Hermann Hugo (1588-1629). 2) ""Beleegeringh der stadt Grol"". Ref. Haitsma Mulier/ Vander Lem 192b. 3) First edition by Heinsius on the siege and capture of 's-Hertogenbosch in 1629 by Frederick Henry, Prince of Orange. Ref. Haitsma Mulier/Vander Lem 215b. Willems 351. Provenance: Koch Rotterdam (owl)
