Live auction - Lot 766
[Dominicans]
Belgium dominicanum sive Historia provinciae Germaniae Inferioris sacri ordinis ff. praedicatorum.
Brussels, Fr. Foppens, 1719
Hammer price: €
170
€ 150 / 200
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Lot description
4to: [16]-434-[18] pp. (toning).
Contemp. sheep (corners bumped, some wormtracks), spine with 4 raised bands (joints rubbed, def. at head & tail, paper labels).
Rather rare survey of the history of the Dominicans in the Low Countries, and of the then existing convents. Ill. with 13 folding engr. plates (convents i.a. Lier (2), Vilvoorde, Tongeren, Sittard, Mons, Braine-l'Alleud, Brussels, Maastricht, Antwerp, Ghent, Leuven; without Bruges and Mechelen) by Bouttats and Harrewijn, 1 full-page engr. pl. by Bouttats and 1 engr. in-text. 12 woodcut ecclesiastical arms. Woodcut mark on title.
Ref. STCV. - Not in BCNI.
Prov. "Conventus S:Michaëlij Litomericensis Ord.Pred.: 1723.", i.e. Dominicans Litoměřice (Czech Republic; ms. entries on title and libr. stamp).