Live auction - Lot 968
[Architecture]
Le Brabant et les Flandres [- Anvers, Liège, Namur et le Hainaut]. Monuments d'architecture et de sculpture [en Belgique]. Dessinés d'après nature et lithographiés en plusiers teintes [...]; accompagnés de notices historiques et archéologiques par F. Stappaerts.
Brussels, Ghent, Leipzig, C. Muquardt, [1852]
Hammer price: €
500
€ 400 / 500
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Lot description
2 vol., folio: [24], [19] ff.; 60 pl. protected with tissue guards (spotting in both vol., mostly marg.).
Cathedral-style publ. binding, brown morocco, blind-st. Gothic arched porch on upper covers with gilt title inside, blind-framed lower covers with gilt publisher's name in the centre, gilt-titled flat spines, gilt edges (front cover of both vol. sl. rubbed).
First edition illustrated with 60 chromolithographs depicting various monuments and churches in Brussels, Antwerp, Mechelen, Ghent, Tournai, Nivelle, Huy, Liège, etc.
Ref. Van der Marck 194-5.