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Hugo, Hermann (1588-1629) Obsidio Bredana Armis Philippi IIII.
Antwerp: Plantin, 1626.
First edition, folio, A-R4, [ ]2; illustrated with engraved title, six full page engravings, seven folding engravings, and two text engravings; bound in contemporary parchment, ex libris Harvard College, with their release stamp and the initials of William A. Jackson, 12 3/4 x 8 1/2 in.
Cockle 817.
This work on military fortification contains a history of the siege of the fortified Dutch city of Breda during the Eight Years' War in 1624-1625, one of Spain's last great victories of the war as engineered by General Ambrogio Spinola (1569-1630), and immortalized in Diego Velázquez's Las Lanzas [The Surrender of Breda].
