Description: Seedert de Ooverdraght der Heerschappye van Kaizar Karel den Vyfden op Koning Philips zynen Zoon, Tot het einde der Landtvooghdye des Graven van Leicester. De Vierde Druk, Naar des Schryvers eigen handtschrift op ontallyke plaatzen verbetert, met deszelfs Leeven vermeerdert, [..]. Deel 1-2. t'Amsterdam, By Henrik Wetstein, en Pieter Scepérus [a.o.], 1703. 2 Vols.: [10],27,[9],586 and [2],587-1242,[42 index] pp. With engraved frontispiece by J. van Munnichuysen after G. de Lairesse, 2 ident. engraved title-vignettes, engraved portrait of P.C. Hooft by A. Sijlvelt after J. von Sandrart, 25 double-p. engraved views/ plates by i.a. C. Decker & Jan Luyken, 23 engraved portraits & 1 full-p. engraving. Folio, early 18th-cent. unif. blindst. panelled vellum with blindst. ornament central on both covers, ribbed spine (2x). ? Leendertz 128. Haitsma Mulier/ Van der Lem 235b. De Wind pp. 461-470. Complete set of the 4th edition printed on LARGE PAPER (ca. 36 x 23 cm.) of a Dutch historical work on the Eighty Years’ War by Pieter Cornelisz. Hooft (1581-1647) enlarged with a short biography of P.C. Hooft by Gerard Brandt (1626-1685) attractively illustrated with engravings dep. the sieges of Alkmaar, Cambrai, Grave, Haarlem, Leyden & Woerden and views of i.a. Amsterdam, Brielle, Maastricht, Steenwijk & Utrecht. Vol. 1 with extra letterpress half-title “Alle de Werken van den Heer P.C. Hooft. In Vier Deelen” (cf. Leendertz 128a). – Both vols. sl. waterstained (partly browned) in lower blank margin & lower part of upper cover. Two engravings in vol. 1 (between pp. 164-165 & 492-493) cropped to the borderline & doubled, occ. sl. foxed/ browned, but nevertheless a nicely bound set in good condition.