[Seventeen Provinces] Guicciardini, L. Descrittone di tutti i Paesi Bassi,

altrimenti detti Germania Inferiore. Antwerp, Chr. Plantin, 1581, (18),558 (= 556),(17) p., w. engr. allegorical frontisp., title w. coats of arms verso, full-p. allegorical ill. w. empty central rectangle and w. woodcut coat of arms of the author verso, engr. double-p. general map of the Netherlands and 54 maps, city plans and views, later antique-style leather w. label on lower pastedown "Na grondige restauratie der bladen opnieuw ingebonden door Kunstatelier Sint Catharinadal 1997", folio.

Good, carefully restored and rebound copy, w. former owner's entries on htitle: "Questo libro è di me Quintilio Raimondi Comasco" and "dall. Caval.re Mse. Paolo Raimondi 1794. Quintilio e la mio Proavo". Guicciardini Illustratus, 5 p. 35, variant B; Voet 1277; Adams G-1541; Haitsma Mulier/ Van der Lem 195b. The sought-after second Italian edition (first: Silvius, 1567) of the famous description of the Low Countries. The plates of Tournai and Cambrai are not yet present in this edition "per causa della guerra non s'e ancor' potuto habere il ritratto di questa Citta al naturale".