HISTORY OF THE RISE AND PROGRESS OF THE BELGIAN REPUBLIC, until the revolution under Philip II. Including a detail of the primary causes of that memorable event. From the German original of Federic Schiller.
London: Printed for J. Coxhead, 1807. 1st English Lang. ed. Leather. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Very Good. Item #003980
1st edition. A Very Good copy. 12mo., iv, 238 pp. Bound in period half leather with marbled paper over boards. The spine's head and tail have a small amount of leather pulled away. The front joint is beginning to crack at the top. The marble paper is lightly rubbed. The title page and blank end paper facing it are foxing. Internally clean. A Very Good copy. OCLC locates just 12 copies. *** Published in England during the Napoleonic wars, History of the Rise of the Belgian Republic was Thomas Horne's first work of history. It chronicles the rise and independence of Belgium and the Netherlands from the Eighty Year's War. The Netherlands and Belgium rose to revolt with the ascension of the Spanish king Phillip II to the Hapsburg empire, and thus to Hapsburg Netherlands. The Wars eventually end with the Treaty of Westphalia, and the Independence of the Netherlands, and, separately, Belgium.
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