Bref recueil de l’assasinat, commis en la personne du tresillustre prince [...] d’Orange, Conte de Nassau [...] par Iean Iauregui Espaignol.

4to: [33] ff. (missing final blank; toned, title soiled, blank lower half of **4 cut off and underlaid).

18th-c. quarter vellum, marbled paper on covers, flat spine titled in ink. Good copy.

Sometimes attributed to Pierre Loiseleur, sieur de Villiers, though not attributed to him by Voet nor listed among his works by Cioranesco. A Dutch edition of the pamphlet was published in the same year. It concerns the attempt by Jean Jaureguy to kill the Prince of Orange on 18 March 1582, and the convictions that followed. The pistol used in the assassination attempt only inflicted "a not too serious wound. Jaureguy was slain on the spot. The employer of Jaureguy, the Spaniard Gaspar de Anastro, who knew of the complot, had left the city in time. But two other accomplices or taken for such, the Spaniard Antonio Venero and the monk Antoine Timmerman, were taken prisoner, condemned and executed" (Voet). Texts in French, Spanish and Dutch. Woodcut mark on title.
Ref. Voet (Plantin Press) 1928. - BT 409. - Knuttel 593. - Peeters-Fontainas 1376.
Prov. Frédéric Verachter (1797-1870), Antwerp archivist and collector. - [Frans Franck]. - Paul-L. Dupont (mod. bookpl.).