Le Grand Théâtre sacré du Duché de Brabant [...].

3 vol., folio: [6]-176, [2]-177/394-40, [2]-212-[2]-134-14 pp.; 279 pl. (sm. marg. wormhole in first part of vol. 2, pl. of monastery of Augustinian nuns loose, flyleaves, first and last ff. dampstained in all vol., esp. 3rd, occ. spotting).

Contemp. mottled calf, gilt-orn. spines with raised bands (joints rubbed, some starting to split, head of vol. 2 and tail of vol. 3 damaged, corners bumped). Large paper copy.

Second French ed. (1st French 1729) of this important chorographic work on Brabant, an anonymous redesign of the "Groot Kerkelyk toneel" (1st Dutch 1727), largely based on C. van Gestel's "Historia sacra et profana archiepiscopatus Mechliniense" (1725), and often wrongly attributed to Jacques le Roy. Divided into 4 parts: the Archdiocese of Mechelen, Walloon Brabant and the dioceses of Antwerp and 's-Hertogenbosch. Abundantly illustrated with more than 250 pl. (full-page, double-page or folding), engr. by a.o. J. Harrewijn and R. Blokhuysen: 2 maps, 26 portraits, 70 views of abbeys, churches, castles and convents, and numerous pl., not listed in "Avis au relieur", of funerary monuments, tombstones and stained glass windows, coats of arms, etc.
Ref. BB V:330-331. - STCN.