1678 1ed Vauciennes Memoirs on Origins of WAR Thirty Years War Elzevier 2v SET

1678 1^ed Vauciennes Memoirs on Origins of WAR Thirty Years War Elzevier 2v SET

A rare first edition of an important treatise on European wars!

Pierre Linage de Vauciennes’s ‘Memoires on the Origins of War’ is a late 17th-century treatise on European wars in the 16th- and 17th-centuries. Vauciennes focuses on wars following the Protestant Reformation, the Thirty Years’ War, all through the first English Civil War.

Note on dating and publisher: According to Willems, this edition was actually printed in Amsterdam by Elzevier. The imprint is false (to avoid persecution) and was not published in Cologne.

Item number: #7596

Price: $599

VAUCIENNES, Pierre Linage de

Mémoires Sur L’Origine Des Guerres Qui travaillent l’Europe depuis cinquante ans

A Cologne : Chez Pierre du Marteau, 1678.

Details:

• Collation: Complete with all pages; 2 volumes
  • I – [42], 256, [26]
  • II – 293, [29]
• References: Willems 1920
• Language: French
• Binding: Leather; tight & secure
• Size: ~5in X 3in (13cm x 8cm)

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