first edition Hardcover
1673 · Middleburg
by Hill, Joseph (1625-1707)
Middleburg: : Printed by Thomas Berry, according to the Dutch Copie, 1673 Book. Fine. Hardcover. First edition of the English translation, preceded by a Dutch edition printed at Amsterdam the same year. Octavo. 20.5x15 cm. Pp. [ff. 60]. A few woodcut initials, printer's woodcut device on title. Later plain gray wrappers. Circular stain to front wrapper. Leaves lightly toned, lower corner of first 15 leaves curled. A very good copy. The Third Anglo-Dutch War was a military conflict between England and the Dutch Republic, that lasted between April 1672 and early 1674. It was part of the larger Franco-Dutch War. Finally, the Parliament of England, fearful (truncated)