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Second Elzevier edition of an important work on the first years of the Twelve Year's Truce
BAUDIUS, Dominicus.Libri tres de induciis belli Belgici.    Secunda editio. Leiden, Louis Elzevier (colophon: 'excudebat Isaacus Elzevirius'), 1617. 8vo. Contemporary overlapping vellum over boards. Woodcut printer's device on title, woodcut initials. (40, including last 2 blank), 343, (1) pp. The second edition of this important history of the years 1608-1611, so crucial for the history of the Dutch Republic. The first edition had been published by Louis Elzevier as well (Willems 78: edition in 4to.); a third Elzevier edition appeared in 1629 in 12mo. A translation into Dutch by Petrus Jacobus van Suiderwoude was published in Amsterdam with Dirck Pietersz. in 1616 . Dominicus Baudius (Lille1561-Leiden 1613) was a Dutch Neo-Latin poet, scholar and historian. He was born in a Calvinistic family in the Southern Netherlands in Lille. As a result of the arrival of the new regent of the Low Countries, the Duke of Alba in 1568, Baudius moved to Aachen along with his parents and sister. He studied theology first in Leiden from 1578 to 1579 and then in Geneva in 1581. In 1583 he returned to Leiden to study Law . In 1585 he graduated. During his time in Leiden he formed connections with Justus Lipsius and Janus Dousa . Afterwards he lived in Middelburg, and for some time served as advocate for the court of Holland in the Hague . In 1591 he left for France, where he remained for ten years. He stayed amongst others in Caen and Tours, and maintained himself with various jobs and support from friends such as Jacques-Auguste de Thou. In 1602 Baudius was appointed extraordinary professor of Rethoric at the University of Leiden In 1611 he became ordinary professor of history. In the same year he was appointed historian for the States-General together with Johannes Meursius, with the assignment to write on the events of 1608-1611: the negotiations leading to, and the first years of the Truce in 1609(-1621). This resulted in the present Libri tres de Induciis belli Begici (Three books about the Truce in the Dutch war), first published in Leiden in 1613. In Leiden he befriended amongst others Daniel Heinsius and Hugo Grotius. He must have had an attractive and cheerful personality as his classes were very popular. Good copy.- (End-papers a bit frayed).
Willems 118.
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