Histoire abregée des Provinces-Unies des Pais-Bas, où l'on voit leurs progrés, leurs conquêtes, leur gouvernement, et celui de leurs compagnies en Orient & en Occident. Comme aussi les hommes illustres dans les armes & les savans dans les lettres. Amsterdam, Jean Malherbe, 1701. Folio: (VIII),109,(3) pp. Half leather, ribbed spine, gilt floral decoration and lettering. With fold. worldmap (showing the factories of the East & West India Companies), 3 fold. plates depicting a large number of small circular portraits and ills. of interiors of chambers of the various provinces and trading companies, and 37 full-page plates with 167 portraits, plans and views (lacking map of the Netherlands and 1 folded plate with portraits. Binding slightly worn, plates and a few pages neatly restored, ex-libris on title page, light staining from use.