Effigies des forestiers et comtes de Flandres.

Antwerp, M. vanden Enden, 1663

€ 200 / 300

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Lot description

8vo.

19th-c. red quarter shagreen (corners bumped, flat gilt spine). Good copy.

First edition of this collection of fine portraits of the rulers of Flanders, from Liederic Le Buc to Philip the Fair. Consists of an engr. title and 42 engraved numbered portraits (of 47) engraved by Cornelis Meyssens (b. 1640) after paintings by his father Joannes (1612-1670).
Ref. Hollstein XIV:26:109-156. - Not in STCV.
Bound with: Id. - Les pourtraits des souverains princes et comtes de Hollande. Nouvellement reproduits en lumière. Ibid., 1662 (pl. 12 cut out and mounted on later paper; sl. toned, a few pl. more than others). First edition of the portraits of the rulers of Holland, from Dirk I to Philip IV of Spain. Consists of an engr. title and 38 engraved numbered portraits (n. 22 missing). Enriched with 5 other portraits numbered L to LIIII. Ref. Hollstein XIV:26:15-54. - Not in STCV.
Prov. Ownership entry on titles erased.