Le premier volume [- Le second volume, - Le tiers volume] des illustrations de la Gaulle Belgique, antiquitez du pays de Haynnau et de la gra[n]d cité de Belges: à présent dicte Bavay, dont procedent les chaussees de Brunehault. Et de plusieurs princes q[ui] ont regne [...] iusques au duc Philippes de Bourgongne.

3 parts in 1 vol., folio: [8]-142-[1], [4]-82, [6]-108 ff. (paper faintly brown., a few marg. lacks of paper, incl. to titlep.).

Contemp. calf (rubbed), blindst. rules and roll-stamps on covers (some scratches), blindst. spine on 5 raised bands (somewhat rubbed, upper joint partly split.), handwritten title on red edges. Good large margins copy.

1st edition, Regnault imprint, of the abridged translation by Jacques de Lessabé (or de Leussauch) of the French translation by Jean Wauquelin (14?-Mons 1452) of "Annales historiae illustrium principum Hannonia" by the Mons Franciscan and chronicler Jacques de Guise (1340?-1399). Woodcut illustr.: repeated architectural title-border, printed in black and red in part I and II, in black in part III, - presentation scene with Philippe le Bon, duc de Bourgogne in part I (verso of leaf a1, repeated as full page facing the preface), - 2 large woodcuts in part III: author in his scriptorium and a French king sitting in front of parliament, - numerous initials, some criblé, in different sizes, - large typographic marks of Du Pré and Regnault. Nice edition in 2 columns. Ref. Brunet II:1836. - Mortimer French 268. - BL STC French 40. - Bn-Opale plus. - Not in Adams. Prov. Ms. ownership mention Jesuits College Paris. - Bookplate M. Lugol.