Live auction - Lot 1110
[Brussels]
Bruxella, incomparabili exemplo septenaria, gripho palladio descripta: luminibus historicis, politicis, miscellaneis distincta & explicata.
Brussels, J. Mommaert, 1646
Hammer price: €
470
€ 300 / 400
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Lot description
Sm. folio: [24]-146-[9] pp.; 3 pl. (some foxing and spotting, occ. ms. annot.).
19th-c. marbled calf, covers ruled by a double blindst. fillet and a gilt fillet with floral corner pieces, spr. edges, gilt inside dentelles (joints and corners sl. rubbed, stain on front cover, a few sm. scratches on covers).
Only edition of this symbolic history of Brussels by Puteanus. Engr. ill.: title-vign. by Hollar (arms of Brussels), 3 double-page pl. (i.a. panoramic view of the city by A. Santvoort and Cathedral of St. Michael and St. Gudula), 2 full-page pl. and 2 fig. in-text (i.a. "Septem familiarum insignia").
Ref. BB IV:812-813:P-276. - STCV.
Prov. Ms. entry on title.
Joined: Consuetudines Bruxellenses, latine et gallice redditae [...]. Br., P. de Dobbeler, 1669. Folio (some foxing and spotting, some ms. annot.). Contemp. marbled calf (corners rubbed, spine with def., local stains on covers). 1st ed. of this customary law of Brussels by J.-B. Christyn (1659-1707). Ref. Dekkers 36:4. - STCV. (2 vol.)