De bello Belgico = The history of the Low-Countrey vvarres

De bello Belgico = The history of the Low-Countrey vvarres

Full title: De bello Belgico = The history of the Low-Countrey vvarres / vvritten in Latine by Famianus Strada ; in English by Sr. Rob. Stapylton, Kt.

Famiano Strada, 1572-1649

London : Printed for Humphrey Moseley, and are to be sold at his shop at the signe of the Princes Arms in St. Pauls-Churchyard

MDCL [1650]

[8], 143, [1], 83, [1], 58, 24, [44] pages, [14] leaves of plates : portraits ; 30 cm (folio)

Portraits engraved by William Marshall and Robert Vaughan.
Includes index.
Translation of the first only of the two decades of the author's De bello Belgico, which was originally published at Rome, 1632-47.
Title ornament, head- and tail-pieces, initials (some factotum).
Shoulder notes.
The final leaf of advertisements includes books dated 1651.

Purchased on the Schulich-Woolf fund.
Imperfect: lacking frontispiece portrait of the author.
Rebound in full leather by Felton Bookbinding, Georgetown, Ont.

Stapylton, Robert, -1669, translator.
Moseley, Humphrey, -1661, bookseller.
Vaughan, Robert, active 17th century, engraver.
Marshall, William, active 1617-1650, engraver.
Schulich-Woolf Collection.

English

Dated 1650 .S77 folio
ETSC, R24631
Wing (2nd ed.), S5777