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Histoire De L'Entree De La Reyne Mere Dv Roy Tres-Chrestien, Dans Les Provinces Vnies Des Pays-Bas. Enrichie de Planches. Par le Sr. de la Serre, Historiographe de France.

Accession number
PML 2842.1
Creator
La Serre, M. de (Jean-Puget), ca. 1600-1665.
Published
Londre, Par Jean Raworth, pour George Thomason, & Octauian Pullen, 1639.
Notes
... of Marie de Medici during the eight years of her last exile in the Spanish Netherlands from 1631 until her death.
Not in Brunet.
Illustration: 4 full-page engravings (added allegorical t. p.; Lords of the States General; Frederick Henry, prince of Orange; Maria, princess of Orange, with the Three Graces) and 11 etched views of Marie de Médicis' progress through the Dutch cities, that of Boisleduc double and folded. Although all are sometimes attributed to W. Hollar, probably only the allegorical t. p. and the three portraits of the dedicatees were done by him.--cf. Hind and Parthey.
First ed.
Added t.p., engraved and 14 plates.
Signatures: [*]4, [cross]1², [cross]2², [cross]3², A-Z², Aa-Dd², the last a blank and genuine.
Description
62 l. : ill., plates, ports. ; 40cm
Provenance
With the armorial exlibri of Sir Henry Hope Edwardes and Clarence S. Bement; note stating from the Beckford Library; collation note from Bernard Quaritch, 24 May 1901.
Binding
Red morocco.
Classification
Department