Online auction - Lot 321
[Flanders]
Chronyke van Vlaenderen [...].
Bruges, A. Wydts, [1726]-1736
Starting bid: €
120
€ 150 / 200
Bidding via DrouotLot description
3 vol., folio: [48]-xc-540 [= 544]-[14], [32]-612-[20], [32]-1158-[30] pp. (some sm. tears i.a. in both front. & fold. map, 1 larger tear repaired (vol. III), some soiling & dampstaining).
19th-c. quarter green leather, gilt flat spines (rubbed, corners bumped, def. at heads & tails, spine vol. III detached).
Compilation of chronicles by Nicolaes Despars (1522-1597). Engr. ill.: front. by Heijlbrouck after J.C. De Cock (vol. I), front. by Heijlbrouck after R. Van Orley (vol. II), 3 title-vign., fold. map "Flandriae comitatus accurata descriptio" in vol. I and 56 ill. in-text (i.a. 3 dedicatory arms, portraits of the Burgundian dukes, Mary of Burgundy, Albert & Isabella, Philip IV, the Bruges belfry, battle scenes, etc.). 33 woodcut portraits in-text (vol. I). Without the map of Bruges as is often the case. Errata leaf at end vol. III. Titles in red and black. Text in 2 col.
Ref. STCV.