DE AEDO Y GALLART, Diego

The Journey of Prince don Fernande infant of Spain, Cardinal, since the twelfth of April 1632... until... the fourth... of November of the year 1634 Antwerp, Jean Cnobbaert, 1635 BEAUTIFUL COPY IN MOROCCO WITH LARGE GILT DECORATION First edition in French translated by Jules Chifflet In-8 (207 x 154 mm). Woodcut initial and cul-de-lampe COLLATION : π2 a4 e4 A-Z4 2A-2B4 2C2 CONTENTS : π1r : title, π2r : frontispiece, a1 : blank, a2r : To Mr. Don Manuel de Guzman, e4r : privilege, A1r : text ILLUSTRATION : 1 title-frontispiece after Peter-Paul Rubens engraved by Marinus with the coat of arms of the cardinal infant, 1 folding copperplate engraving after Jan van den Hoecke executed by Marinus representing Ferdinand of Habsburg, 1 full-page copperplate engraving also after Rubens, 1 folding panorama of the battle of Nordlingen engraved on copper by Andreas Pauli BINDING STRICTLY OF THE PERIOD. Red morocco, gilt decoration, filigree irons on the boards, framed with filets and roulettes, spine decorated with the same decoration, combed paper endpapers, gilt edges Legend of the battle plate slightly browned Ferdinand of Austria (1609-1641), brother of King Philip IV and Queen Anne of Austria of France, also known as the Cardinal-infant, was to succeed his aunt Isabella of Austria at the head of the Spanish Netherlands. This book tells the story of the journey of the cardinal-infant and his army during the Thirty Years' War, from Madrid to Brussels through Lombardy, Tyrol and Germany. On the way, Ferdinand of Austria won the battle of Nordlingen against the Swedes in September 1634. The book is illustrated with beautiful engravings after Rubens' drawing. Ferdinand of Austria as a hunter was the subject of a beautiful portrait by Diego Velázquez kept in the Prado. BIBLIOGRAPHY: Brunet, I, col. 57