Extremely rare (second?) edition of a pamphlet containing an army report on the preparations for a siege of Breda by the army of the Dutch Republic under the Stadtholder Frederik Hendrik. The army had left Nijmegen to march on Breda, which was in the hands of the Spaniards since the conquest of the city by the Spanish general Spinola in June 1625. The hidden motive of these preparations was to distract the Spanish army that was threatening the city of Maastricht, some 150 kilometres southeast of Breda. In 1637, however Frederik Hendrik captured Breda after a seven weeks siege. The city remained part of the Dutch Republic from that time. We have located only one other copy, at Brigham Young University in Utah.
Fine copy. Bartolomé Barba Hernández, "El sitio de Breda", in: Revista de historia militar, III (1959), no. 5, pp. 35-54, at p. 54 (no location); François, libraire, Catalogue des livres rares, ... de M. [Francesco] Scalini de Como (Lombardie), ... 21 Novembre 1859 (Paris, 1859), lot 3356; WorldCat (1 copy); cf. Knuttel 5404c (related 1637 pamphlet).