FREDERIC HENRI, Prince of ORANGE. Mémoires [...] Qui contien - Lot 186

FREDERIC HENRI, Prince of ORANGE. Mémoires [...] Qui contiennent ses Expéditions Militaires depuis 1621. jusqu'à l'Année 1646. Amsterdam, Pierre Humbert, 1733. In-4° of xxxv, 1bl. 362, [13] pp. engraved title, portrait of the prince, 9 vignettes, all finely engraved by Bernard PICART. Green half calf with corners, spine with 5 faux-nerfs, t. p. in black morocco. t. in black morocco, edges speckled with red (Early 20th century binding). First edition, published posthumously by Isaac de BEAUSOBRE, of these memoirs of FREDERIC-HENRI's glorious military campaigns in the Netherlands against the Spanish from 1621 to 1646, including the sieges and captures of Bois-le-Duc (1629), Maastricht (1632), Breda (1637) and Sas van Ghent (1644). Bernard PICART's engravings mainly depict sieges (plans) and naval battles.