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126 - [SPANHEIM (Frédéric)]. THE SWEDISH SOLDIER.
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Estimate €100 - €150
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[SPANHEIM (Frédéric)]. THE SWEDISH SOLDIER. Or A True Account of What Happened from the King of Sweden’s Arrival in Germany until his Death. Rouen, Jean Berthelin, 1633. 12mo, ivory vellum with small overlaps, plain spine, title handwritten in brown ink (original binding); (4) folios, 496 pages, (28) folios comprising the table of contents and a ‘Letter from the Swedish Soldier’ to Queen Marie-Éléonore. Handwritten bookplate ‘Bernhard Ferry de Czettrict’ on the first endpaper and ‘Jean Sigmound de Czettritz de Neubaus: à Seitendorff. 1703’ and ‘From the Library of Mons: the Cousin of Neuj’ on the opposite white endpaper. ROUEN EDITION PUBLISHED IN THE SAME YEAR AS THE ORIGINAL of this account of the campaigns of King Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden, nicknamed ‘the Lion of the North’, from his intervention in Germany in 1630 until his death at the Battle of LÜTZEN in 1632. Published anonymously and attributed to Frédéric Spanheim (1600–1649), a Reformed theologian and professor in Geneva, this work constitutes a contemporary account of the Swedish phase of the THIRTY YEARS’ WAR. A fine copy, in very fresh condition, with the binding intact.
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