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Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Dondini, Gulielmo. Historia de rebus in Gallia gestis ab Alexandro Farnesio, Parmae et Placentiae Duce III supremo Belgii praefecto. Rome, Nicolas Angelo Tinassio, 1673. Folio. [4] leaves including title and engraved allegorical frontispiece + 681 (misnumbered 683) + [1]p errata. With 5 engraved folding plates of battles and sieges by Dominique Barrire. Contemporary calf, gilt borders, compartments of spine richly gilt with morocco title lable; light wear to joints and corners. First edition of this superbly printed and illustrated account of the French military victories of Alexander Farnese (1545-92), Duke of Parma and Piacenza, renowned general of Philip II of Spain, best known for his brilliantly successful reconquest of the southern Netherlands, where he acted as governor-general from 1578. Farnese was about to invade the northern Netherlands in 1590 to complete his suppression of the revolt against Spain, when he was ordered to intervene on the side of the Catholics in the French civil war against Henri of Navarre. He outmanoeuvered the Huguenot armies, forcing them to lift their long sieges of Paris and Corbeil, and repeated the same feat at Rouen, two years later in 1592. The finely engraved plates by the French artist Dominique Barrire include two battle scenes with views of the cities of Paris and Corbeil, and one of the Spanish army crossing the Seine near Dieppe. The Italian Jesuit historian and poet Dondini (1606-78) considered this work as a continuation of Strada s Wars of Flanders . His dedication is to Alexander Farnese s grandson, Ranuccio II (1630-94). The book was reprinted at Nuremberg in 1675 and Augsburg in 1750. Near contemporary oval emblematic engraved bookplate pasted in centres of inside covers bearing the legend Pietas homini tutissima virtus . A remarkably fresh copy in a well-preserved contemporary binding. For the engraver, see Thieme-Becker, II.533. SEE ILLUSTRATION.