Live auction - Lot 1132
[Belgium]
Topographia historia Gallo-Brabantiae [...].
Amsterdam, Herman Allard, 1692
€ 600 / 800
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Lot description
Folio: [8]-272-[8] pp. (some browning and spotting).
19th-c. quarter calf with corners, marbled paper on covers, gilt orn. spine with 5 raised bands, marbled endpapers,
First edition of the standard work on the French-speaking part of Brabant, compiled by Jacques Le Roy (1633-1719). Ill. with a front. by Abraham van Diepenbeeck, dedicatory armorial head- and endpiece by Ertinger, full-page map of Brabant, "schema metallorum", 54 views of castles, abbeys, funeral monuments, etc. of which 17 outside the text, mostly by Harrewijn and some woodcut coat of arms in text.
Ref. BB III:839-841:L-104 (extensive note). - STCN. - BL London. - BnF. - NUC. - Not in Matagne (Namur).
Prov. Old annotations on p. 72.