Franco-Spanish War, Battle of Valenciennes - Rantre (Jacques...

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Franco-Spanish War, Battle of Valenciennes - Rantre (Jacques de, Licentié és Loix, Advocat, & du Conseil particulier de la ditte ville), Description veritable des choses plus memorables arrivées pendant le siège de la ville de Valentiennes fait par l'Armée de France [...], Valentiennes [Valenciennes]: Jean Boucher, 1656, pp: [viii], 144 (signatures K & L transposed), marginal fragment of the called for map before signature A, foliate intials, modern calf in imitation of a 17th century binding, red-speckled edges, 4to, [1]

Provenance: Joseph Maillart (1643-1717), abbé de Clairmarias (1688-1717), a former Cistercian house at Clairmarias, Pas-de-Calais, Hauts-de-France, France, later 17th/early 18th century engraved bookplate and associated contemporary ink MS inscription to front free endpaper.

Rare work, of which only 3 copies are reported in the collective catalogue of libraries in France, including that of the BM. de Valenciennes which appears to be a variant issue. A previous copy, sold at Kâ-Mondo, Hotel Drouot, Paris, Collections de M. et Mme G., et à divers : Instruments Scientifiques, Livres Anciens et Modernes, Reliures de Napoléon, Numismatique, 20th May, 2015, Lot 335.