Books and Manuscripts · Lotto 2800
[Den Bosch]. Heinsius, D.
Histoire du siege de Bolduc, et de qui s'est passé ès [sic] Paisbas Unis, l'an MDCXXIX. French transl. A. Rivet. Leyden, Ex Officina Elzeviriorum (B. and A. Elzevier), 1631, (8),212,(4)p., engr. title, 2 fold. maps (1x w. some light contemp. handcolouring), 3 double-p. plans and 5 full-p. ills. of plans, contemp. vellum, folio.
- Lotto
- 2800
- Sezione
- OLD and RARE BOOKS
- Stima
- 400 € – 600 €
- Foto
- 2 foto
Condizioni
A few maps/ plates loose (but still very fine); one sm. dampstain in blank margin of the plan of "Vesalia". Fingernail-size hole in backstrip. A very good copy.
Note
Haitsma Mulier/ Van der Lem 2156; Bodel-Nijenhuis 440; Willems 352; Rahir 326; Ter Horst, Daniel Heinsius, p.104. The first French edition of this account of the siege and capture of Den Bosch in 1629 by stadholder Frederick Hendrik of Holland. The original Latin edition (with the same plates) was published by the Elzeviers in the same year. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXXVIII.