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Are you interested in this item? This item is up for auction at Catawiki. Please click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the Catawiki website. Catawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally available. Our weekly auctions feature thousands of unusual, rare, and exceptional objects you won’t find in just any store. Christian (II.) of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel (* 20. September 1599 in Gröningen an der Bode; † 16. June 1626 in Wolfenbüttel Castle), nominally Duke of Brunswick and Lüneburg and Administrator of the Bishopric of Halberstadt, also called Christian the Younger, the "Toller Christian," the "Wild Duke," or "Toller Halberstädter," was among the best-known commanders of the Guelphs in the struggle for Estates liberté and against the House of Habsburg (Emperor Ferdinand II, King Philip IV of Spain) and the Catholic League during the Thirty Years' War.
25 x 17.7 cm; brilliant impression on laid paper with nice plate tone:
Paper: 41.5 x 28 cm; close to mint.
In such fine state, of the utmost rarity.
Literature: New Hollstein Hollstein Dutch
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