Live auction - Lot 429
[Belgium - Netherlands]
Le Délices des Pays-Bas, ou Description géographique, et historique des XVII Provinces Belgiques. Sixième édition [...].
Liège, J.F. Bassompierre, 1769
€ 200 / 300
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Lot description
5 vol., 8vo: xxxi [front. incl.]-[1]-340, front.-[2]-422-[1], front.-[2]-377-[1], front.-[2]-409-[1], front.-[2]-395-[1] pp.; 135 (of 139) pl. (sl. marg. damp stains in vol. I and to upper corner of vol. V, some ff. sl. browned, very occ. staining, marg. wormhole to pp. 135-138 of vol. II).
Contemp. marbled sheep, gilt orn. flat spines, marbled edges (repairs, some sm. defects).
7th edition (and not 6th as mentioned on title) and 1st in 5 vol. Illustrated with 5 frontispieces (identical in vol. III & V) and 134 plates (of 139), almost all fold., representing maps, plans, views of cities, monuments and castles.
Ref. de Theux 616. - Barbier I:873. - de le Court p. 312 sq. - H. Douxchamps, Bibliographie des Christyn, pp. 22-23, n° 34h (diff. coll.).
Prov. J.M. Alleyrac (ms. ownership entry (on title vol. I partly erased)). - Em. Théodore Ray (bookpl.).