Famiani Stradae Romani…De Bello Belgico Decas Prima…
STRADA, Famiano. Famiani Stradae Romani…De Bello Belgico Decas Prima…
N.d., n.p. [but ?Amsterdam: Ioechimum van Meteler, 1648]
2 parts in 1. Small 8vo (118 x 72 mm.). Engraved title to second part (but bound at front) showing the Low Countries in the form of a lion and 12 further full-page portrait engravings of various European rulers, INCLUDING QUEEN ELIZABETH I, as well as Phillip II, Margaret of Parma, Charles V and others. Short tear to engraved title page touching a few words of title. Lacking initial leaf (almost certainly a blank) before typographic title. Title page starting but holding, faint dampstaining to later quires, worse at end, in contemporary vellum over paper boards, lower hinge split and bookblock partially detached but holding, slightly soiled and worn. A good copy.
WITH THE FAMOUS MAP OF THE LOW COUNTRIES IN THE SHAPE OF A LION AND NUMEROUS PORTRAITS OF EUROPEAN RULERS. This work, which has a complicated publication history and numerous editions, first appeared in Rome in 1632 in two volumes. A third was planned, but the King of Spain intervened to kill it. This copy matches the title page and pagination of the copy in the Bibliothéque Nationale de France; it seems to collate complete (except for the initial leaf, almost certainly a blank).
Strada, a Jesuit scholar, is primarily famous for this work on the wars in the Netherlands, which recounts the battles between the Spanish Bourbon troops and the Protestant forces under William of Orange. It includes a number of portraits of important figures in the conflict, including Phillip II of Spain, the Duke of Alba, Charles V, and Elizabeth I of England, most rendered mildly wall-eyed by the artist.
cf. Brunet vol V, p. 557; and BnF record no: FRBNF31411977.
STRADA, Famiano. Famiani Stradae Romani…De Bello Belgico Decas Prima…
N.d., n.p. [but ?Amsterdam: Ioechimum van Meteler, 1648]
2 parts in 1. Small 8vo (118 x 72 mm.). Engraved title to second part (but bound at front) showing the Low Countries in the form of a lion and 12 further full-page portrait engravings of various European rulers, INCLUDING QUEEN ELIZABETH I, as well as Phillip II, Margaret of Parma, Charles V and others. Short tear to engraved title page touching a few words of title. Lacking initial leaf (almost certainly a blank) before typographic title. Title page starting but holding, faint dampstaining to later quires, worse at end, in contemporary vellum over paper boards, lower hinge split and bookblock partially detached but holding, slightly soiled and worn. A good copy.
WITH THE FAMOUS MAP OF THE LOW COUNTRIES IN THE SHAPE OF A LION AND NUMEROUS PORTRAITS OF EUROPEAN RULERS. This work, which has a complicated publication history and numerous editions, first appeared in Rome in 1632 in two volumes. A third was planned, but the King of Spain intervened to kill it. This copy matches the title page and pagination of the copy in the Bibliothéque Nationale de France; it seems to collate complete (except for the initial leaf, almost certainly a blank).
Strada, a Jesuit scholar, is primarily famous for this work on the wars in the Netherlands, which recounts the battles between the Spanish Bourbon troops and the Protestant forces under William of Orange. It includes a number of portraits of important figures in the conflict, including Phillip II of Spain, the Duke of Alba, Charles V, and Elizabeth I of England, most rendered mildly wall-eyed by the artist.
cf. Brunet vol V, p. 557; and BnF record no: FRBNF31411977.
STRADA, Famiano. Famiani Stradae Romani…De Bello Belgico Decas Prima…
N.d., n.p. [but ?Amsterdam: Ioechimum van Meteler, 1648]
2 parts in 1. Small 8vo (118 x 72 mm.). Engraved title to second part (but bound at front) showing the Low Countries in the form of a lion and 12 further full-page portrait engravings of various European rulers, INCLUDING QUEEN ELIZABETH I, as well as Phillip II, Margaret of Parma, Charles V and others. Short tear to engraved title page touching a few words of title. Lacking initial leaf (almost certainly a blank) before typographic title. Title page starting but holding, faint dampstaining to later quires, worse at end, in contemporary vellum over paper boards, lower hinge split and bookblock partially detached but holding, slightly soiled and worn. A good copy.
WITH THE FAMOUS MAP OF THE LOW COUNTRIES IN THE SHAPE OF A LION AND NUMEROUS PORTRAITS OF EUROPEAN RULERS. This work, which has a complicated publication history and numerous editions, first appeared in Rome in 1632 in two volumes. A third was planned, but the King of Spain intervened to kill it. This copy matches the title page and pagination of the copy in the Bibliothéque Nationale de France; it seems to collate complete (except for the initial leaf, almost certainly a blank).
Strada, a Jesuit scholar, is primarily famous for this work on the wars in the Netherlands, which recounts the battles between the Spanish Bourbon troops and the Protestant forces under William of Orange. It includes a number of portraits of important figures in the conflict, including Phillip II of Spain, the Duke of Alba, Charles V, and Elizabeth I of England, most rendered mildly wall-eyed by the artist.
cf. Brunet vol V, p. 557; and BnF record no: FRBNF31411977.