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The main characters in the Dutch War of Independence portrayed

REYD, Everhard van.
Voornaemste gheschiedenissen inde Nederlanden ende elders, vanden Jare 1566 totten Iare 1583.

With engraved title and 25 portraits, mostly by C. van Sichem and  K. van Sichem.

With engraved title and 25 portraits, mostly by C. van Sichem and  K. van Sichem.

With engraved title and 25 portraits, mostly by C. van Sichem and  K. van Sichem.

With engraved title and 25 portraits, mostly by C. van Sichem and  K. van Sichem.

With engraved title and 25 portraits, mostly by C. van Sichem and  K. van Sichem.



Arnhem, Ian Iansz, 1626. 4to. Contemp. vellum. With engraved title and 25 portraits, mostly by C. van Sichem and  K. van Sichem. (16), 734, (14) pp.

Extensive historical treatise on the first years of the Eighty Years War between Spain and the Low Countries by Everhart van Reyd, with beautifully  engraved portraits of important historical figures like Philip II, king  of Spain, Ferdinand Alvarez, duke of Alva, William, prince of Orange, and  Maurice, prince of Orange. Some of the portraits were also used in E. van Meteren's Niederländische Historien (Antwerp, 1611), and also in the Dutch editions of the same work (Amst., 1647, 1652, 1663). The first portrait, by J. Muller, with a Latin verse of J.J. Pontanus underneath, shows the author at the age of 52.

Good copy, with the bookplate of C. Carsten.- (Sl. waterstained).
Nijhoff, Bibl. Hist. Neerl. III, 1279; Van Someren, Portr., 51; Hollstein XXVII, p. 67, K. van Sichem, and p. 24, C. van Sichem.

Related Subjects: 16th Century  17th Century  Dutch  History  House of Orange  Low Countries  Portraits  Spain 

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