CAMPANA, Cesare Assedio e racquisto d'Anversa,... Lot 976

CAMPANA, Cesare Assedio e racquisto d'Anversa, fatto dal Sereniss. Alessandro Farnese [...]. Historia [...] divisa in due libri. Con una breve narratione delle cose avvenute in Fiandria, dall'anno 1566. fin al 1584. che cominciò dette assedio; e con l'arbore de' Conti di Fiandria, accomodativi gli elogii à ciascheduno di grado in grado. Vicenza G. Greco for G.B. Ciotti 1595 4to: 123 pp.; 1 pl. and 1 table (occ. staining or spotting in the begin., hole in text of p. 121). Limp cardboard, vellum ties (one missing). Good copy. First edition of a work on the history of the siege of Antwerp during the Eighty Years' War, from July 1584 until the fall of the city in August 1585, where Antwerp was forced to surrender to the Spanish forces. It also relates the events before the siege. Illustrated with a woodcut fold. view of Antwerp and with a fold. genealogical table of the Counts of Flanders. By Campana (1532-1606), historian and teacher from L'Aquila. Ref. EDIT16 8762. - STC Italian p. 141. - Not in Adams.