Live auction - Lot 547
[Belgium - Brabant]
Topographia historia Gallo-Brabantiae [...].
Amsterdam, H. Allard, 1692
Hammer price: €
300
€ 400 / 600
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Lot description
Folio: [8]-272-[8] pp. (some browning and spotting).
19th-c. quarter calf with corners, marbled paper on covers, gilt-orn. spine with raised bands.
First edition of the standard work on the French-speaking part of Brabant, compiled by Jacques Le Roy (1633-1719). Ill. with a front. by Abraham van Diepenbeeck, dedicatory armorial head- and endpiece by Ertinger, full-page map of Brabant, "schema metallorum", 54 views of castles, abbeys, funeral monuments, etc. of which 17 outside the text, mostly by Harrewijn and some woodcut coat of arms in-text.
Ref. BB III:839-841:L-104 (extensive note). - STCN. - BL London. - BnF. - NUC. - Not in Matagne (Namur).
Prov. Old annotations on p. 72.