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The comtemporary biography of the eldest daughter of William the Silent and Charlotte de Bourbon
[SPANHEIM, Frederick].Memoires sur la vie & la mort de la serenissime Prinsesse, Loyse Iuliane, Electrice Palatine, née Princesse d'Orange, &c. Contenans un abbregé de quelques evenemens notables de nos temps & de divers mysteres qui s' y sont passez.      Leiden, Joannes Maire, 1645. 4to. Contemporary vellum, with title writen in ink on spine. With engraved title-page by C. van Dalen after Pieter Kouwenhorn and full-page portrait of Princess Louise Juliana by C. van Dalen with engraved Latin poem by Caspar Barlaeus underneath. [12], 432, [44] pp. Interesting contemporary biography of Louise Juliana, Princess of Orange, Duches of Orange-Nassau (1576-1644), the daughter of Prince Willem of Orange-Nassau - primogenitor of the Dutch Royal family and 'Father of the Fatherland' - and Charlotte de Bourbon The biography is written by Frederick Spanheim (1600-1649), a professor in theology in Geneva (1631) and Leyden (1642), whose father, Wigandus Spanheim was a councillor of the Elector of the Palts. In 1593 Princess Louise Juliana married Frederick IV of the Palts and she was the mother of Frederick V of the Palts, called the 'Winter King' ('Winterkoning' or 'Winterkoninkje', because of the fact that he was King of Bohemia for only one winter), who lived in The Hague since 1623. Endpapers lacking; spine damaged. Good copy of a very rare work. With bookplate of 'The Right Honorable George Rose' with his coat of arms.
BMC 23, p. 1104; Breugelmans, Fac et spera, 1645:18 (our copy is state B with the errata); NNBW I, col. 1286-7 and X, col. 593.
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