Live auction - Lot 1188
[Prize book - Turnhout]
Historia episcopatûs Silvaeducensis continens episcoporum et vicariorum generalium seriem [...].
Brussels, F. Foppens, 1721
€ 200 / 300
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Lot description
4to: front.-[vi]-333-[11] pp., 3 pl. (some soiling, some brown., marg. wormholes, min. marg. dam. and marg. staining, 2 pl. with dam.).
Contemp. calf, gilt spine with 5 raised bands, red leather title label, red edges (worn, some def., joint start to loose).
First edition of the ecclesiastical history of 's Hertogenbosch diocese and its capitular churches, abbeys and monasteries. Illustrated with an engr. front by J. Harrewijn, 3 folding plates (city plan of 's Hertogenbosch, view of the cathedral of St. John and a view of Tongerlo abbey) and some in-text illustrations (engr. coat of arms of bishops and abbeys).
Ref. Opac KBR. - BN Paris. - STCV.
Prov. Libr. stamp. - Ownership entries (In rhetorica secundum ... Henrico SipsTurnholtano ... 1767 ... rector, J. Vander Hagen, A. van Hoeck).