Live auction - Lot 1074
[Chronicle - Flanders]
Historiae Flandricae synopsis, ab anonymo scriptore Flandriae generosae titulo circa annum MC.LXIII exhibita [...] [ed. Johannes Natalis Paquot].
Brussels, J. Ermens, 1781
€ 120 / 180
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Lot description
4to: 7-[2]-v-136-[2]-8 pp. (toned).
Cont. marbl. paper (backstrip gone). Very good uncut copy.
1st scholarly edition by the Louvain scholar Paquot (1722-1803) of the "Flandria generosa" or "Genealogia comitum Flandriae", a history of the County of Flanders (10th-12th c.), compiled after 1164 by a monk of St Bertinus (Saint-Omer). With a 8-page stocklist of the publisher Ermens. Ref. STCV 7082153.