Live auction - Lot 739
[Bruges]
Van de grootdadigheyt der breedt-vermaerde regeringhe van de stadt Brugge: met de Plaets-beschrijvinge der selver stede; beneffens Eene loflijke uytsprake ter eere van 't grootdadigh magistraet.
Amsterdam, Wid. J.J. Schipper [= Susanna Veselaer], 1684
Hammer price: €
200
€ 150 / 200
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Lot description
4to: 586-[2] pp. (some staining on lower blank margins of some quires).
Contemp. vellum, flat ink titled spine. Good copy.
First Dutch translation with corrections by C.B. Ingelbrecht of Damhouder's (1507-1581) "De magnificentia politiae amplissimae civitates Brugorum". Important historical work on the government of the city of Bruges. At the end a laudatory poem on the city. The city plan in the Latin ed. was not used for this ed.
Ref. BB II:42-43:D-70. - Dekkers 44. - STCN (i.a., BL).
Prov. Jozef Van Den Heuvel (bookpl.).