De Bello Belgico decades duae

Author: Strada, Famiano

Publisher: J. G. Schönwetter

Published: Mainz

Publishing year: 1651

Strada, Famiano (1572-1649)."De Bello Belgico decades duae Ab Excessus Caroli V. Imp. usq; ad Initium Praefecturae Alexandri Farnesii Parmae Placentiaeque Ducis III. ad Annum 1678 (i.e. 1590). Continuatae cum figuris eneis et imaginibus ad vivum expressis nec non iconibus reliquorum in bello actorum & ad Historiam praecipue spectantium denuo de novo correctiores & auctiores excussae". Mainz: Schönwetter, 1651. Large 8° (20,5:17 cm). (8), 778, (104) pp. Before title-page: the Leo Belgicus map and 26 engraved portraits (the first one - portrait of F. Strada - on page nr. (6) before the page nr. 1) and 30 folded copper-plates (battle scenes with citi views/plans) on the inbound plates. Orig. parchment binding from the time (professionally restored) with handwritten author's name and the title on the spine.

Portraits: Famianus Strada, Francisco Valesius, Moritz von Nassau-Oranien, Karl von Mansfeld, Gabriele Serbelloni, Christoffel van Mondragon, Willem Hornanus Hesius, Erzherzog Matthias von Österreich, Aegidius von Barlaimont, Karl Fugger (Sohn Jakob Fuggers), Pfalzgraf Johann Kasimir, Fabio Farnese, Robert van Melun, Georg van Basta, Francisco Verdugo, Appio de Comitibus, Camillo Capisucchi (Capizucchi), Ferdinand Davalo, Emmanuel Lalin de Renty, Robert Dudley Earl of Leicester, Jean Baptiste de Tassis (Johann Baptista Tasse), Claude Barlaimont, Blasio Capisucchi (Capizucchi), Carlos Spinelli, Karl II. Erzherzog von Österreich, Karl von Arenberg. - A famous book on the Dutch wars for religious freedom (1555-1590).

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