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2 vols, comprising: 1. Description exacte de tout ce qui s'est passe dans les guerres entre le Roy d'Angleterre, le Roy de France, les Etates des Provinces Unies du Pays-bas, & l'Evesque de Munster.... Amsterdam: Jacques Benjamin, 1668. 8vo (188 x 140 mm). 241, [3] pp. Engraved vignette on title and 8 engravings in text. Period calf, rebacked, raised bands, gilt panels. Cloth slipcase. Several leaves browned, old dampstain to gutter of a few leaves, chipping to spine with some loss to lettering, hinges reinforced, rear hinge cracked with some separation. FIRST FRENCH EDITION of an account of the Second Anglo-Dutch War, first printed in Dutch in 1667. It includes a description of the battles for New Holland, and of the capture of the city of New Amsterdam on "l'isle de Manathans." 2. ANGLO-DUTCH WARS. STUBBE, HENRY. 1632-1676. A Further Justification of the Present War Against the United Netherlands. London: Henry Hills and John Starkey, 1673. 8vo (217 x 165 mm). [24], 136 [i.e. 166] pp. Engraved frontispiece and 6 engraved plates (one folding). Period mottled calf, raised bands, morocco spine label, marbled edges. One edge of folding plate wrinkled and short tear to blank margin of same, joints chipped, hinges cracked. Provenance: Anthony Earle (armorial bookplate); Thomas Philip Earl de Grey (armorial bookplate). FIRST EDITION. Wing S6046.