Nobiliaire des Pays-Bas, et du comté de Bourgogne [- Suppléments].

2 vol., 12mo + 6 vol. of supplement (browning more or less strong, some spotting, vol. 5: large blue ink stains in bottom margins).

Contemp. mottled calf, gilt orn. "à la grotesque" flat spines, red and black vol. number- and title-labels, blue spr. edges (black labels sl. discoloured, blue ink stains in bottom of boards and spine of vol. 5 and in corner of upper board of vol. 4).

First edition and rare complete set of this still useful classic publication, giving a chronological list with notices and genealogies of families ennobled by the princes of the houses of Austria and Burgundy. With the "Supplément" (same editor, 1755, 1 vol.) and the "Suite du Supplément" (Mechelen, Hanicq, 1779, 5 vol.), covering the years 1420-1762.
Ref. De Ghellinck 873-874. - Saffroy 23096-23102.
Prov. E.J.D. De Munck, genealogist, Haarlem (mod. stamps). - Vigelius (mod. bookpl.). - Mod. bookpl.
Joined, 1st edition: [Coloma, Carlos] - Généalogies des familles nobles et anciennes des dix-sept provinces des Pays-Bas [...]. S.l., s.n., 1781. 3 pts in 1 vol., 8vo: 158, 182-[1], 188 pp. (occ. marg. soiling). 19th-c. three-quarter marbled calf, gilt orn. spine with raised bands, red morocco title-label, red top edge (sm. worm work at the bottom of lower board, but good copy). Important, but unfinished, inventory of noble families in the Low Countries, sometimes attributed to Pierre-Alphonse Liévin. Complete copy running from A-G. Sometimes attributed to Eckman or Dumont. Ref. De Ghellinck 888. - Saffroy II:23115. - Barbier II:532. - UniCat. - STCN. (9 vol.)