Live auction - Lot 1258
[Genealogy - Nobility]
Recherche des antiquitez et noblesse de Flandres [...].
Douai, Widow M. Wyon [= Marie Vanderpiet], 1631
Hammer price: €
380
€ 250 / 400
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Lot description
2 parts in 1 vol., folio: [8]-[2 bl.]-[12]-330, [8]-331/1009-[3]-20 pp. (cancel on p. 320, sm. hole in text of ff. 2S3+3V1, some offsetting and spotting).
18th-c. polished calf, gilt titled spine with 5 raised bands (joints partly split, spine rubbed).
First edition of this genealogical work on Flanders by P. de L'Espinoy (1552-1633). Engr. ill.: front. by M. Baes, printer's mark on title, coat of arms of Isabel, rare fold. pl. by Maes showing the counts of Flanders, part-title with 1 full-page pl. on verso showing the Maid of Ghent and +/- 50 coats of arms in-text and 1 full-page pl. showing the coat of arms of the author. Title in red & black. Bound with, at the beginning and the end, 26 ff. with handwritten notes.
Ref. Saffroy 22284. - BB III:863:L-662. - Labarre 1803.