Les délices des Pays-Bas, ou Description géographique et historique des XVII. Provinces belgiques. Sixième édition [...].

Liège, J.F. Bassompierre, 1769

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5 vol., 8vo: xxxi-[1]-340, front.-[2]-422-[1], front.-[2]-377-[1], front.-[2]-409-[1], front.-[2]-395-[1] pp.; 135 pl. (some min. browning and spotting, some waterstaining).

Contemp. tree-sheep, gilt-orn. flat spines, sp. edges (corners and sides rubbed and sl. bumped, joints rubbed, def. on some heads and tails, some joints splitting).

7th ed. (and not 6th as mentioned on title) and 1st in 5 vol. Ill. (complete) with 5 front. and 135 pl. (19, 35, 37, 20, 29), almost all fold., representing maps, plans, views of cities, monuments and castles.
Ref. De Theux 616. - Barbier I:873. - De le Court p. 312 sq. - H. Douxchamps, Bibliographie des Christyn, pp. 22-23, n. 34h (other coll.).