Lot 40
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William I (Prince of Orange). Bref Recueil de l'Assasinat, commis en la personne du très illustré Prince, Monseigneur le Prince d'Orange, Conte de Nassau, Marquis de la Vere, &c. par Jean Iauregui Espaignol, Antwerp: Christopher Plantin, 1582, 4°, FIRST EDITION IN FRENCH, *4, **4, A-F4, G1 (- G2 blank), Plantin device to title (title slightly soiled, F1 soiled at lower margin, old marginal staining), bound with an 18th-century manuscript copy of three contemporary documents in Dutch relating to the assasination, 12pp., 18th-century calf, wide gilt roll tool border of tulips and hearts (spine rubbed, upper joints cracked), g.e., ex libris Robert, Marquis of Crewe. [Voet The Plantin Press 1928]
William I (Prince of Orange). Bref Recueil de l'Assasinat, commis en la personne du très illustré Prince, Monseigneur le Prince d'Orange, Conte de Nassau, Marquis de la Vere, &c. par Jean Iauregui Espaignol, Antwerp: Christopher Plantin, 1582, 4°, FIRST EDITION IN FRENCH, *4, **4, A-F4, G1 (- G2 blank), Plantin device to title (title slightly soiled, F1 soiled at lower margin, old marginal staining), bound with an 18th-century manuscript copy of three contemporary documents in Dutch relating to the assasination, 12pp., 18th-century calf, wide gilt roll tool border of tulips and hearts (spine rubbed, upper joints cracked), g.e., ex libris Robert, Marquis of Crewe. [Voet The Plantin Press 1928]

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William I (Prince of Orange). Bref Recueil de l'Assasinat, commis en la personne du très illustré Prince, Monseigneur le Prince d'Orange, Conte de Nassau, Marquis de la Vere, &c. par Jean Iauregui Espaignol, Antwerp: Christopher Plantin, 1582, 4°, FIRST EDITION IN FRENCH, *4, **4, A-F4, G1 (- G2 blank), Plantin device to title (title slightly soiled, F1 soiled at lower margin, old marginal staining), bound with an 18th-century manuscript copy of three contemporary documents in Dutch relating to the assasination, 12pp., 18th-century calf, wide gilt roll tool border of tulips and hearts (spine rubbed, upper joints cracked), g.e., ex libris Robert, Marquis of Crewe. [Voet The Plantin Press 1928]

Lot Essay

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).

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