[Variant edition. With splendid map] The history of the warrs of Flanders:

Written in Italian by that learned and famous cardinall Bentivoglio; Englished by the right honorable Henry, Earl of Monmouth; The whole work illustrated with a map of the 17 provinces, and above 20 figures of the chief personages mentioned in this history. London, printed for Humphrey Moseley, 1654, (10),459,(1),(20 index) p., with engraved frontispiece portrait of Bentivoglio, splendid large folding map "A new mape of ye XVII provinces of Low Germanie" (dated 1626 and with address of George Humble) and 23 engraved portraits, contemporary calf, gilt and ribbed back with morocco letterpiece and repeated crowned monogram "LL" (probably Louis XIV), small folio.

Water stain to top corner of frontispiece; occ. trifle foxed/ sl. tanned. Endpapers detached from boards; joints torn in and head of backstrip worn. Good copy, the repeated monogram on the spine probably belongs to Louis XIV. No copies of this variant in PiCarta, which does list the (possibly sl. later) version "The compleat history of the warrs of Flanders" (with engraved frontispiece portrait of the translator and with his introduction). The splendid map (with North on the right) has at the top 8 city profiles and left and right figures in costume. The map was previously published in John Speed's Prospect Of the Most Famous Parts of the World (London, 1627), and is thus the first variant of the famous Speed map.