Live auction - Lot 988
[Archduke Albert]
Le soleil eclipsé ou Discours sur la vie et la mort du Serenissime Archiduc Albert.
Brussels, H. Anthoine, 1622
€ 300 / 400
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Lot description
8vo: [12]-164 (= 163)-[1 bl.] pp. (toned).
Cont. vellum, flat spine with gilt label (ties gone). Good copy.
Very rare funerary speech for Archduke Albert by the French Cistercian abbot of Orval Bernard de Perain de Montgaillard (1562-1628). Ill. with an engr. title and a full-page portrait of the author facing p. 1. Ref. STCV 6699566. - VdWulp 1802. - Opac KBR. - Not in Goldsmith (BL). Prov. Old monastic ownership entry at top of title (crossed out). - Old acquisition note at bottom of title. - Name on front flyleaf.