Live auction - Lot 764

[Flanders]

WREE, Olivier de

Historiae Comitum Flandriae libri prodromi duo. Quid comes? Quid Flandria?

Bruges, L. Kerchovius, 1650


Hammer price: € 600

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Lot description

Large 4to: [12]-110-[4], [12]-692-[4], lxxx-[24] pp. (engr. title and first ff. loose, some wormwork near the gutter at the end, min. browning).

Later vellum, flat spine (spine cracked and loosening from bookblock).

First edition of a pioneer work on the early medieval history of (the Counts of) Flanders by the Bruges lawyer O. Vredius. Ill. with an engr. title, an engr. vign. on second title, an engr. double-page map of Flanders and 4 full-page engr. plates on two ff. (within collation).
Ref. BB V:803-805:V-349 (I-II). - STCV (state B: imprint "Brugis Apud [...] in Cygno iuxta Burgum anno 1650").
Prov. Guillaume Michiels (1909-1997), Belgian romantic and impressionist painter and folklorist (bookpl.).

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Lot 764

Historiae Comitum Flandriae libri prodromi duo. Quid comes? Quid Flandria?

WREE, Olivier de

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