Live auction - Lot 1081
[Archduke Albert]
Apothéose chrestienne ou Panégyrique sur les grandes vertus du sérénissime archiduc Albert, Grand Prince des Pays-Bas et de Bourgogne. À la sérénissime princesse Isabelle Claire Eugénie, Infante d'Espagne.
Brussels, H. Anthoine, 1622
Hammer price: €
400
€ 350 / 500
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Lot description
8vo: [8, engr. title incl.]-198-[2] pp. (4th pl. blurred).
Contemp. vellum, gilt titled flat spine (front cover warping).
Rare elaborate French panegyric on Archduke Albert of Austria (1559-1621), sovereign of the Habsburg Low Countries. Nice engr. title (by S.V.S.) and 14 full-page allegorical engr., showing the stairs to Heaven and Albert's apotheosis (pl. 14).
Ref. Funck 384. - Goldsmith (BL) R-216. - STCV (1). - Opac KBR (3).