Live auction - Lot 544
[Belgium - Brabant]
Le guide fidèle contenant la description du Brabant-Wallon [...]. Ouvrage curieux et utile.
Brussels, J. Moris, [c. 1776]
Hammer price: €
280
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Lot description
10 parts in 1 vol., 8vo (text complete; sl. browned).
Contemp. mottled sheep, gilt-orn. spine with raised bands, red edges (head, tail and corners missing, rubbed).
Rare 1st collected ed. with excerpts of the yearly magazine "Almanach nouveau" published between 1767 and 1776. Interesting historical and topographical source of Walloon Brabant providing information on Nivelles, Genappe, La Hulpe, Mont-Saint-Guibert, Grez-Doiceau, Aincourt, Gembloux, Dongelberg, Melin, St-Jean-Geest, Gest-à-Vironpont, Jauche, Orp-le-Grand and Jandrain, as well as about many smaller villages.
Ref. De le Court, p. 460. - Warzée, A. - Recherches bibliographiques sur les almanachs belges, 27.