Live auction - Lot 1240
[Lier - Antwerp]
Discours de la surprinse de la ville de Liere par les rebelles Hollandois le 14. Octobre 1595. Et reprinse d’icelle le mesme iour, par quelques Espagnols de la garnison du chasteau, & bourgeois de la ville d’Anvers, de Mallines, & des lieux circonuoisins [...].
Lille, A. Tack, 1595
Hammer price: €
1.100
€ 450 / 600
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Lot description
8vo: [3] ff. (missing f. 4 with "Ode" added in xerox copy).
Sewn, loose in old marbled wrappers. Good copy.
Extremely rare (2nd recorded copy). Lille pamphlet on the taking and the recovery (by Antwerp troops and citizens) of Lier in October 1595. Also one of the very first booklets printed at Lille. Nice woodcut ill. on title.
Ref. Labarre (Lille) Tack 6 [1: Rothschild copy in Lille]. - Pettegree (FB) 34587 = (NB) 19108 (same copy).
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