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Contemporary account on the Twelve Years Truce

BAUDIUS, Dominicus.
Van 't bestant des Nederlantschen oorlogs, drie boecken  ... ; vertaelt door P. Iacobi Austro-Sylvium.

Engraved vignette on title, 4 folding engraved plates (incl. a large plate with 18 portraits of the diplomats), 5 large & 2 smaller woodcut initials.

Engraved vignette on title, 4 folding engraved plates (incl. a large plate with 18 portraits of the diplomats), 5 large & 2 smaller woodcut initials.

Engraved vignette on title, 4 folding engraved plates (incl. a large plate with 18 portraits of the diplomats), 5 large & 2 smaller woodcut initials.

Engraved vignette on title, 4 folding engraved plates (incl. a large plate with 18 portraits of the diplomats), 5 large & 2 smaller woodcut initials.

Engraved vignette on title, 4 folding engraved plates (incl. a large plate with 18 portraits of the diplomats), 5 large & 2 smaller woodcut initials.



Amsterdam, Dirck Pietersz. Pers, 1616. 4to. Contemporary vellum, title in ink on spine. Engraved vignette on title, 4 folding engraved plates (incl. a large plate with 18 portraits of the diplomats), 5 large & 2 smaller woodcut initials. (24), 240, (2 blank) pp.

First edition of the Dutch translation from the Latin of  'Libri III de induciis belli belgici'  (first published at Leyden in 1613), written by Dominicus Baudius (1561-1613), on the Eighty Years war, especially on the history of the Twelve Years Truce (1609-1621), the ceasefire between the United Provinces and Spain. Baudius, professor of history at Leyden, was commissioned by the Staten Generaal to write this history. The works starts with a letter of the translator ' De Toeèyghen-Brief' signed P.I.V.S. (Petrus Jacobi Austrosylvius =Petrus Jacobus van Suiderwoude). The large folding plate contains a portrait of Johan van Oldenbarnevelt (1547-1619).

Fine copy, with bookplate of 'I. M(eulman)' pasted on inside frontcover.- (Ms. ownership's entry in ink on title; lower part of spine dam.).
Haitsma/ Mulier/ v.d. Lem, 67; Molhuysen-Blok VI, 81-2; not in De Buck.

Related Subjects: History  Low Countries  Portraits 

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