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On the war of Flanders in the first decade of the 17th century: an army general's account

GIUSTINIANO, Pompeo.
Delle Guerre di Flandra, Libri VI. Posti in luce da Gioseppe Gamurini.

With title within richly engraved allegorical borders, and 29 folding engraved maps and plans of sieges and fortifications.

With title within richly engraved allegorical borders, and 29 folding engraved maps and plans of sieges and fortifications.

With title within richly engraved allegorical borders, and 29 folding engraved maps and plans of sieges and fortifications.

With title within richly engraved allegorical borders, and 29 folding engraved maps and plans of sieges and fortifications.

With title within richly engraved allegorical borders, and 29 folding engraved maps and plans of sieges and fortifications.



Antwerp, J. Trognesio, 1609. 4to. Later vellum, spine ribbed, with red title-label. With title within richly engraved allegorical borders, and 29 folding engraved maps and plans of sieges and fortifications. (4), 329, (16) pp.

First edition of the only historical work by the army general Pompeo Giustiniano (1569-1616). Of patrician Italian family Giustiniano went into Spanish service, and learnt the art of warfare in the Netherlands under Farnese and Spinola. His work on the War at Flanders is of great importance for military history as it was the only work written from the point of view of the Spaniards with the large strategic plans of the besieged cities in the Netherlands between 1601 and 1609. A large part is devoted to the Siege of Ostende, a town Giustiniano himself as commander in chief successfully attacked against Prince Maurits. In 1603, the city was reconquered by the Spanish army and the Dutch lost their last stronghold on the Flemish coast. Apart from the many military plans of Ostende with its fortifications and surroundings, there are also military maps of Flanders, Brabant, Gelderland and Germany, with plans of 's Hertogenbosch, Grave, Oldenzaal, Lochem, Groll, Rijnberck, Krefeld, Wachtendonck, Lingen, Yssendyke, Bochem, etc. The work was published by his fellow country-man Gumarini who also translated  it into Latin, published under the title "Bellum Belgicum" by the same publisher at Antwerp in the same year as the present Italian edition.

Fine copy, with the armorial bookplate of the Luton Library.- (Sl. browned; one leaf sl. dam.).
Nijhoff, Bibl. Hist. Neerl. III, 649; Palau 102835; Graesse III, 90.

Related Subjects: 17th Century  Flemish  Fortification  History  Militaria 

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