Les généalogies et anciennes descentes des forestiers et comtes de Flandre, avec brieves descriptions de leurs vies et gestes le tout recueillÿ des plus véritables, approvées et anciennes croniques et annales [...] et ornées de portraicts figures et habitz selo[n] les façons et guises de leurs temps, ainsi qu'elles ont esté trouvées es plus anciens tableaux [...].

Sm. folio: [8]-121-[1] pp. (usual toned, minor. soiling).

Modern vellum, flat spine.

Rare reissue of this famous collection of short biographies of the Counts of Flanders (1st publ. ca. 1580), with a new dedication to the Archdukes Albert and Isabella Clara Eugenia on ff. A2r-A3r and their biography on p. 120. Date derived from the dedication and the approbatio. Engr. ill.: title, map and arms of Flanders pasted on f. A3v from a previous edition, 41 portraits, numbered 1-7 and 1-33 (pl. 19 misnumbered "20e") (the portraits of Philip the Handsome and Philip II pasted on pp. 115 & 119 from a previous edition) by Pieter Balten, and a new unnumbered portrait of the Archdukes pasted on p. 121, and an ill. poem by Ch. de Navieres bound before title. Sm. woodcut coats of arms in-text.
Ref. UNICAT. - SUDOC. - Not in STCV, USTC.
Prov. J. H. Pels (bookpl.).