| Annotation | Pagination has many repetitions, omissions, misnumberings. Actual number of numbered pages is 405. Signatures: ¶⁶, *⁶, A-D⁶, E⁴, F², G⁴, H², I⁸, K⁴, L-P⁶, Q-R⁴, S-T⁶,V⁴, X-Z⁶, 2A⁸, 2B-2C⁶, 2D², 2E⁶, 2F², 2G⁶, 2H⁴, 2I-2K⁶, 2L⁴, 2M², 2N-2R⁶, 2S⁸. Includes 16 folded plates of maps and plans. With 13 laudatory poems, by Nicolaus Grudius and others. Historiated initials. Avec Privilege Dv Roy. Includes index. Coat of arms of Philip II of Spain on verso of title page, with motto 'Dominus mihi adjutor. Tanto monta'. Portrait of Philip II of Spain as frontispiece, with motto 'Nec spe, nec metu. Iam illustrabit omnia'. With dedications by Guicciardini 'Av Grand Roy Catholiqve', dated 20 Oct. 1561, and 'A Madame Margverite d'Avstriche, Dvchesse de Parme', dated 16 Aug. 1567. On *iiij: Lvcas D'Heere Peintre Gantois Av Lectevr. Tiele, P.A. Nederlandsche bibliographie van land- en volkenkunde, Guicciardini illustratus : de kaarten en prenten in Lodovico Guicciardini's Beschrijving van de Nederlanden Cockx-Indestege, E. Belgica typographica, 1541-1600, Adams, H.M. Catalogue of books printed on the continent of Europe, 1501-1600, in Cambridge libraries, 421, note 3 Silvius 1568, page 31 1364 G1538 | Translate
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