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GUICCIARDINI, Ludovico (1521-1589). Descrittione di... tutti i Paesi Bassi, altrimenti detti Germania Inferiore. Antwerp: Christopher Plantin, 1588.
2° (335 x 220mm). Italian text. Engraved frontispiece, title surround with arms of Philip II of Spain on the verso, portrait of Philip within an elaborate architectural border with woodcut arms of the author on the verso, 78 engraved plates, maps or town plans (63 double-page, 7 single page and 8 printed two to a page). (Most plates browned, about 10 with tears at folds.) Contemporary vellum gilt, g.e. (lightly soiled, ties lacking).
Third edition in Italian, second Plantin edition. Voet 1280; cf. Adams G-1542.
2° (335 x 220mm). Italian text. Engraved frontispiece, title surround with arms of Philip II of Spain on the verso, portrait of Philip within an elaborate architectural border with woodcut arms of the author on the verso, 78 engraved plates, maps or town plans (63 double-page, 7 single page and 8 printed two to a page). (Most plates browned, about 10 with tears at folds.) Contemporary vellum gilt, g.e. (lightly soiled, ties lacking).
Third edition in Italian, second Plantin edition. Voet 1280; cf. Adams G-1542.