Live auction - Lot 1132
[Ghent]
Description du jubilé de sept cens ans de S. Macaire, patron particulier contre la peste, qui sera célébré dans la ville de Gand, capitale de la Flandre [...].
Ghent, J. Meyer, [1767]
€ 200 / 300
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Lot description
4to: [8]-xii-84 pp. (browning).
Cont. marbled calf, covers with gilt ruled border, flat gilt orn. spine, red sp. edges (sl. rubbed, corners bumped). Good copy.
First edition of this work celebrating the 700 year Jubilee of Saint Macarius, the Patron Saint of the city of Ghent. Ill. with 15 engr. pl. (lettered A-O, 1 folding) by F. Heijlbrouck and P. or J.L. Wauters depicting numerous floats (ship, crocodile, dromedary, swan, rhinoceros, elephant), cavalcades and ornaments. Incl. 1 large folding pl. showing the fireworks celebrating St Macarius at the Friday Market in Ghent. Contains biographies of St Amand, St Livin and St Macarius and a list of the cavalcade participants. Ref. Bibl. gant. 3856. - STCV. - Opac KBR.