Historia nostri temporis, dat is: geschiedenis onses tijts, door Adolphus Brachelius ... Beginnende met het jaer 1618, en vervolght tot het jaer 1654. Uyt de Latijnsche in de Nederduytsche tael overgeset door L. v. B.
Tot Nymegen: voor Andries van Hoogenhuyse, (Harderwyck, : J. Toll), 1659. [12], 648, [16] pp. Illus. with engraved extra title and 98 [of 101(?)] portraits. Sm. 8vo. Later calf stamped in blind over beveled wood boards, four raised bands, metal clasps. Second edition. A very good copy, clasps lacking locks, some soiling to title page and endpapers, a few minor tears, a few leaves at the end with small loss to upper fore-corners not affecting text, small ink stain on fore edge, text and portraits quite sharp. Item #37587
Hoogenhuyse published his first edition of the Dutch translation of Brachelius popular Latin work on the Thirty Years' War in 1656 in Rotterdam and then this second when he moved his operation to Nymegen. OCLC shows only five copies of this uncommon edition, all in the Netherlands.
Price: $500.00