Live auction - Lot 879
[Netherlands - Genealogy]
Recueil généalogique de familles originaires des Pays-Bas ou y établies.
Rotterdam, s.n., 1775-1778
Hammer price: €
260
€ 100 / 150
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Lot description
2 vol., 8vo: [4]-411-[1 bl.], [2]-428 pp. (toning, ff. 2A2, 2B1 & 2C2 Vol. II strengthened at fore-edge margin).
Contemp. quarter sheep (corners bumped), cardboard covers with speckled paper, gilt spines with 5 raised bands (rubbed, joints split), leather title labels. Good copy.
Rare first edition of this work concerning some 50 families, conceived in the same manner as "Généalogies de quelques familles des Pays-Bas" (1774): with engr. coat of arms on top of every family description.
Ref. Saffroy II:23110. - De Ghellinck 882. - STCN.
Prov. Mod. ms. entries on pastedowns.