Le grand théâtre sacré du duché de Brabant [...]. Tome premier, contenant l'archeveché de Malines.

Folio: [6]-176 pp. (some local light spotting).

Contemp. marbl. calf, boards with fine gilt-rolled border frame and corner pieces, gilt-orn. spine with raised bands, red edges (corners bumped, some sm. def., joints starting to split). Very good copy.

First vol. only of the 1st French ed. of this important chorographic work on the Archbishopric of Mechelen, an anonymous redesign of the "Groot Kerkelyk toneel" (1st Dutch ed.: 1727), largely based on C. van Gestel's "Historia sacra et profana archiepiscopatus Mechliniense" (1725), and often wrongly attributed to Jacques le Roy. This part is on Mechelen, Leuven, Diest, Tienen, etc. Ill. with engr. pl. by Fr. Harrewijn, a.o. figuring a large folding map of the archbishopric of Mechelen, 26 funerary monuments and tombstones (some folding), 3 ff. with coats of arms, 26 views of abbeys, churches, castles and convents (mostly folding), 9 portraits of bishops and archbishops, a few in-text ill. and title vignette. Title in red and black.
Ref. BB V:T-57:319-330. - STCN.