Live auction - Lot 473
[Genealogy]
Histoire généalogique et héraldique de quelques familles de Flandre.
Ghent, E. & S. Gyselinck, [1841-1874]
€ 150 / 250
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Lot description
Large folio: chromolith. title, [2]-42, 4, 14, 12, 27-[1], x pp.; 27 pls (sl. foxing on text lvs and on some pls).
Publisher's binding: half black shagreen, black buckram blind-stamped with fillets and tools on the boards, gilt title on the upper board, flat spine with gilt title, white moiré endpapers (some sm. lacks of buckram - 2 larger on inner board -, sm. stains, corners sl. bumped and used, sm. rubbing on spine).
First edition published in several issues but remained unfinished. Ill. complete with 27 large chromolithographed genealogical plates from the author's drawings. Dedicated to the families Borluut (10 pls), Helias d'Huddeghem (2), della Faille (5), de Neve (3), Kevyn (7). Tables. Ref. De Ghellinck 956. - Saffroy 22305. - Not in Vanderhaegen.