Description historique, chronologique et geographique du duché de Brabant [...]. Nouvelle édition révue & corrigée.

8vo: [2]-x-460 pp. (toning).

Mod. overl. vellum, flat spine titled in ink. Good, partly uncut copy.

Second edition (1st 1756) of this work focussing on Brabant religious institutions, by J. de Beckers, better known as Didace de Saint-Antoine (1681-1763), Brussels ecclesiastical writer and Discalced Carmelite friar. Without stocklist of Ermens at the end, as in most copies.
Ref. De le Court, p. 318. - Barbier I:905. - STCV.
Prov. Francine van der Perre (mod. bookseller's bookpl.) - Michel Wittock (1936-2020), founder of the Bibliotheca Wittockiana (mod. bookpl.).
Joined: Linguet, Simon-Nicolas-Henri - Collection des ouvrages relatifs à la Révolution du Brabant. Paris, de l'Imprimerie de l'auteur, 1791. 8vo: xlviii-351 pp. (uncut, some sm. stains and margin. foxing, sm. hole on the 2nd leaf). Mod. half green shagreen. With the printed title label of the original wrappers preserved on one blank endpaper. Prov. Charles Bourrit (ms. entry). (2 vol.)