Online auction - Lot 58

Online auction - Lot 58

[Belgium - Brabant]

LE ROY, Jacques

Topographia historia Gallo-Brabantiae [...].

Amsterdam, Herman Allard, 1692


Starting bid: € 500

€ 600 / 800

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Lot description

Folio: [8]-272-[8] pp. (some browning and spotting).

19th-c. quarter calf with corners, marbled paper on covers, gilt orn. spine with 5 raised bands, marbled endpapers,

First edition of the standard work on the French-speaking part of Brabant, compiled by Jacques Le Roy (1633-1719). Ill. with a front. by Abraham van Diepenbeeck, dedicatory armorial head- and endpiece by Ertinger, full-page map of Brabant, "schema metallorum", 54 views of castles, abbeys, funeral monuments, etc. of which 17 outside the text, mostly by Harrewijn and some woodcut coat of arms in-text.
Ref. BB III:839-841:L-104 (extensive note). - STCN. - BL London. - BnF. - NUC. - Not in Matagne (Namur).
Prov. Old annotations on p. 72.

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Lot 58

Topographia historia Gallo-Brabantiae [...].

LE ROY, Jacques

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