Teatro del Belgio, o' Sia descritione delle diecisette provincie del medesimo
Subtitle: con le piante delle città, e fortezze principali; da chi al presente possesse; come, in qual modo, & in qual tempo acquistate. Aggiontovi vn succinto racconto di quanto è occorso dalla mossa d'armi del rè christianissimo contro gli Stati generali delle Provincie Unite sin' al fine del 1672
By: Descritta dal conte Galeazzo Gualdo Priorato
Publisher: [s.n.]
Published: 1683
Place of publication: In Francofort
Language: ita
Number of pages: 256
Subjects: West-Indische Compagnie (Netherlands); History
Other titles: Teatro del Belgio.; Sia descritione delle diecisette provincie del medesimo.
Notes: Added, fully engraved title page bears coats of arms of the Netherlandish provinces; title in letterpress reads: Il teatro del Belgio.

First printed 1673 in both Frankfurt and Vienna issues.  A version in German was also published in Vienna, 1673, under title "Schauplatz dess Niederlandes".  These are the same sheets as the Italian version of 1673 without [4] p. of privileges found in the Frankfurt issue.

Based in part on his "Relatione delle Provincie Unite del Paese Basso", first printed in "Colonia" which is probably a false imprint and printed in the Netherlands or in Brussels, according to Alden, in 1668.

"Della Compagnia dell' Indie Occidentali": p. 79-81.

Signatures: pi² (pi1, pi2 versos blank) ²pi⁴ A-S⁴ T² ²A-²B² (-²B2)

Folded map following p. [12], 1st count, is numbered "1" and is a double folded map of the United Provinces; double plates which follow are engraved maps/plans of various cities and towns in the United Provinces of the Netherlands and are numbered 1-120; p. [9-12], 1st count are a key to the double plates which follow, and the folded double map numbered "1" is not included.

Title page proper printed within engraved ornamental border; engraved printer's vignette of the storming of a fortress; head and title pages; initials.

JCB Lib. cat., 1675-1700, p.116-117.

Alden, J.E. European Americana, 683/88.

John Carter Brown Library copy imperfect: wanting 13 portraits, which are available in negative photostat facsimile and housed in the JCB Bibliographical file.

John Carter Brown Library copy has pasted cancel slips over the end of line 13 and all of line 14 on p. 17.

John Carter Brown Library copy is half bound in contemporary vellum with marbled boards.