Live auction - Lot 320
[Architecture]
Le Brabant et les Flandres [- Anvers, Liège, Namur et le Hainaut]. Monuments d'architecture et de sculpture [en Belgique]. Dessinés d'après nature et lithographiés en plusieurs teintes [...]; accompagnés de notices historiques et archéologiques par F. Stappaerts.
Brussels, Leipzig, Ghent, C. Muquardt (printed by Delevingne et Callewaert (vol. I)), [1852]
Hammer price: €
320
€ 400 / 500
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Lot description
2 vol., folio: [24], [19] ff.; 60 pl. protected with tissue guards (foxing, sl. more numerous in 1st vol., damp stain to lower corners of 1st vol., 2nd vol. in good condition).
Publisher's binding in the "cathedral binding"-style: brown morocco, blindstamped gothic arched porch on upper covers with gilt title inside, blind framed lower covers with gilt publisher's name in the centre, gilt titled flat spines, gilt edges (rubbed, 1st vol. more).
First edition illustrated with 60 chromolithographs depicting various monuments and churches in Brussels, Antwerp, Mechelen, Ghent, Tournai, Nivelle, Huy, Liège, etc.
Ref. Van der Marck, pp. 194-5.