Collection des listes des dons volontaires ou patriotiques recueillis aux Pays-Bas Autrichiens pour les fraix de la présente guerre.

Folio: [4 ms.-212] pp. (1 f. part. detached, damp stain, sl. browned).

Contemp. cardboard binding, blue paper covers (used).

Very rare and interesting collection of printed donation lists for war funding, issued by the "Comité central" of the Austrian Netherlands and provided with a handwritten introduction by the initial collector, dated 1837. Includes 7 lists of the "Comité central", 2 of the "Comité de Flandre", 3 of the "Comité de Hainaut", 2 of the "Comité de Tournai" and 4 of the "Comité de Namur". A similar collection was later offered for sale in Ghent.
Ref. Not all listed in KBR - Oostende II-2d/0398 - 15e catalogue d'une belle collection de livres (Ghent, D. Verhulst, Mardi 20 novembre 1849), lot 887.
Prov. Ms. ownership entry (not identified).
Joined: De dry staeten representerende het volk van het hertogdom van Brabant. Brussels, P.J. de Haes, 1790. Folio: 3-[1] pp. Government bond issued by the United Belgian States on 5 February 1790 to raise money to fund the Brabant Revolution. Issued only a few weeks after Henri van der Noot signed on 11 January 1790 the pact that established the new confederal republic in the Southern Netherlands. (2 vol.)