Lot n° 488
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GROTIUS (Hugo) - Lot 488
GROTIUS (Hugo)
Annales et Historiae de rebus Belgicis. Amstelaedami, Blaeu, 1657.
In folio: 8f., 569pp., 11f. (index); hors texte portrait of the author. A late plate, containing 4 portraits, added at the beginning of the work.
Contemporary brown calf, spine with 20th century ornamentation, boards rubbed, marbled edges.
First edition of the literary masterpiece by Grotius (1583-1646), remarkable for its careful stylistic imitation of Tacitus, tracing the annals of Holland from the death of Philip II to 1609.
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