Pompe funebre du très-pieux et très-puissant prince Albert, archiduc d'Autriche, duc de Bourgogne, de Brabant, &c. Représentée au naturel en tailles douces, dessinées par Jacques Francquart, et gravées par Corneille Galle. Avec une dissertation historique & morale d'Eryce Puteanus, conseiller & historiographe du roi.

Folio: engr. title-[2]-36-[4] pp.; 65 plates (very occ. spotting mainly on text pp.).

Contemp. calf, gilt-orn. spine with raised bands, red spr. edges (rubbed, sm. scratches on sides, joints partly split, edges and corners used). Inside very clean.

Second edition of this sumptuous funeral book (1st 1623 by Mommaert) celebrating the obsequies of Albert VII, Archduke of Austria (1559-1621), governor of the Spanish Netherlands. Text in Latin, French, Dutch and Spanish by the humanistic historian Puteanus (1574-1646). Ill. with the engr. title on double page (always dated 1623), 65 plates on double page except 2 fold. by Cornelis Galle, after Jacques Francquart, depicting the funeral procession, the carriage, the coffin and the 675 nobles and magistrates, all provided with name and title, participating in the procession. This later ed. also includes an engr. of the catafalque erected for Isabella, Albert II’s widow, not yet included in first ed.
Ref. Landwehr, SC, 70. - Funck 313. - STCV.
Prov. Large armorial bookpl. removed on pastedown.