Eye-witness account in Dutch of an episode in the French conquest of the Spanish Netherlands during the War of the Spanish Succession (1701-1714). Dutch manuscript on paper, 2 narrow sheets, c. 30 x 10 cm, 4 pp. (mounted with sellotape). Good...
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300 / 500
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300 €
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Anonymous letter to "Monseigneur" about events in Ghent, but also about the “hertogh van Beijeren” (i.e. Maximilian II Emanuel, Elector of Bavaria (1662-1726), last governor of the Spanish Netherlands, about “Dendermonde het welcke noch niet en wilt overgheven het gheene sij hebben beghinnen te bombaerden ende bijnaer in asschen gheschoten”, “hollantsche schepen”, “alhier comen daghelijckx met honderden schepen aen uijt hollandt”.
Anonymous letter to "Monseigneur" about events in Ghent, but also about the “hertogh van Beijeren” (i.e. Maximilian II Emanuel, Elector of Bavaria (1662-1726), last governor of the Spanish Netherlands, about “Dendermonde het welcke noch niet en wilt overgheven het gheene sij hebben beghinnen te bombaerden ende bijnaer in asschen gheschoten”, “hollantsche schepen”, “alhier comen daghelijckx met honderden schepen aen uijt hollandt”.
