Online auction - Lot 168
[Leuven]
Opera varia: scilicet Rerum Lovaniensium libri IV. Annalium ejusdem oppidi libri VIII. [...]. De Galliae Belgicae antiquitatibus [...] [and] NUENARIUS, Hermannus - De Gallia Belgica commentariolus [...] [and] ORTELIUS, Abraham & VIVIANUS, Johannes - Itinerarium.
Leuven, H. van der Haert, 1757
Starting bid: €
50
Hammer price: €
80
€ 100 / 150
Bidding via DrouotLot description
5 parts in 1 vol., folio: [18]-124, 112, [4]-18, [2]-12, [2]-22-[24] pp. (edges frayed, title underlaid & soiled, tear in front.).
Contemp. quarter calf (used, tail def.). Uncut, working copy in mediocre condition.
First edition of the collected works of the Brabant historian P. Divaeus (1535-1581), incl. his history of Leuven and its important families, as well as archeological works on Southern Belgium by Divaeus himself, Nuenarius, Ortelius and Vivianus. Engr. ill.: front. with small author's portrait by A. van Campen, double-page map of "Nova Gallia Belgica" and 8 plates with coats of arms of Leuven families (6 full-page, 2 double-page, 1 signed Catoir).
Ref. STCV.