Live auction - Lot 915
[Architecture]
Monuments d'architecture et de sculpture en Belgique. Dessins d'après nature lithographiés en plusieurs teintes par F. Stroobant. Texte par Félix Stappaerts. Deuxième édition.
Brussels, C. Muquardt (imprimerie de Delevingne et Callewaert), [1856]
Hammer price: €
300
€ 250 / 300
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Lot description
Folio: [14] pp.; 36 pl. protected with paper guards (foxing).
Publ. binding in the "cathedral binding"-style: brown morocco, blindstamped Gothic arched porch on the upper cover and gilt medallion by R. Schubert on lower cover, satin endlvs, gilt edges. Very nice copy.
Complete one-volume edition ill. with 36 chromolithographs depicting various monuments and churches in Aarschot, Antwerp, Bruges, Brussels, Kortrijk, Dinant, Ghent, Halle, Huy, Léau, Liège, Lier, Leuven, Mechelen, Mons, Namur and Tournai. Although Van der Marck mentions only one single-volume edition, on the title-page, it is described as a second ed.
Ref. Van der Marck 194-5.