[Entry of Maria de' Medici 1639] Jean Puget de la Serre

Histoire de l'entrée de la Reyne Mere du Roy tres-chrestien, dans les Provinces Unies des Pays Bas. London, J. Raworth for G. Thomason and O. Pullen, 1639, engraved frontispiece, portrait and 13 full-page plates and illustrations (incl. 1 large folding profile view of Den Bosch) by W. Hollar and others, old decorated limp cardboard, folio.

Here and there soiled/stained (incl. the middlefold of the large profile); various smaller defects to interior and exterior. Still a fair copy. The rare first edition of the entry of Maria de' Medici in the Netherlands, with views of Amsterdam (2x), Delft, Den Bosch, Dordrecht, Gorinchem, Haarlem, The Hague, Leiden and Rotterdam.