Live auction - Lot 1022
[Flanders]
Nieu tractaet en[de] curte bescrijvinghe van dat edel graefscap van Vlaenderen/ en[de] ander omligghende landen. Inhaudende veel wonderlicke antiquiteyten/ van der natuere/ gheleghentheyt/ oorspronc/ eerste fondatien ende hercomste des zelven landts in drijen ghedeelt [...].
Ghent, G. Manilius for G. van Salenson, 1563
Hammer price: €
250
€ 300 / 400
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Lot description
Sm. 8vo: [96] ff. (toned, occ. minor staining).
19th-c. gilt quarter leather, marbled paper on covers, gilt spine, marbled edges, marbled endpapers.
Re-issue of the 1562 ed., itself a rev. version of "Vlaemsche audvremdigheyt" (1560) by the Ghent historian and poet van Vaernewijck (1518-1569). It is a verse chronicle in rhyming couplets, dedicated to Adolf of Burgundy. 8 small woodcuts in-text.
Ref. BB V:408:V-61. - BT 4665. - Bibl. gant. 216. - Not in Adams.
Prov. "Bibliotheca Elseghemensis" (bookpl.).
Lot 1022
Nieu tractaet en[de] curte bescrijvinghe van dat edel graefscap van Vlaenderen/ en[de] ander omligghende landen. Inhaudende veel wonderlicke antiquiteyten/ van der natuere/ gheleghentheyt/ oorspronc/ eerste fondatien ende hercomste des zelven landts in drijen ghedeelt [...].
VAERNEWIJCK, Marcus van