Live auction - Lot 1013

[Heraldry - Low Countries]

"Recueil des blasons".

[C. 1815]


Hammer price: € 1.800

€ 1.000 / 1.500

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Lot description

8vo: ± 114 coats of arms and 27 tombstone records, engr. or drawn and enhanced with watercolour, mostly cut off and laid on [43] ff. of partly blue laid paper (occ. sm. stains, tear at fold of one fold. leaf).

Recycled 18th-c. marbled calf binding, double gilt fillet frame with fleuron in the corners on boards, large central gilt coat of arms, two green ribbons on each board, gilt-ornated flat spine (rubbed, some scratches, waterstaining on top of lower board, sl. cracking on spine).

Factitious collection of more than 110 coats of arms reproduced in various forms: num. bookplates (17th-19th, mostly 18th c.), engravings and drawings cut from old books, etc. with many mss notes. At the end: 27 armorial tombstone records (mostly folding) of churches or chapels from Leuven, Liège, Tongeren, Namen, Tienen, Ghent, St-Truiden, etc. Some names of owners: de Cassina de Boulers, Veranneman, von Sierstorpff, van Hamme, Hellin, de Villegas, De Potter, d'Hane, de Thienne, de Lamsweerde, de Bouchout, de Lichtervelde, Petipas, de Rombaut, de Herckenrode, de Lechy, van Velpen, de Hinnisdael, etc. Some names of engravers: L. Fruÿtiers, Ch. Becker, N. Heÿlbroeck, A. Opdebeeck, P. Wauters, etc. Title ill. with a woodcut vignette.
Prov. Châtellenie of Oudenaarde (supralibros; ref. Jonghe 494).

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Lot 1013

"Recueil des blasons".

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