Live auction - Lot 433
[Belgium - Netherlands]
Belgicae, sive Inferioris Germaniae, descriptio: editio postrema [...].
Amsterdam, Jacob Meurs, 1660
€ 300 / 400
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Lot description
2 parts in 1 vol., 12mo: [16 incl. front.]-1/86, [2]-89/521 pp., 26 (of 29) pl. (some foxing).
Contemp. vellum, flat spine titled in ink.
Later Latin 12mo ed. of the "Descrittione" by Guicciardini (1521-1589). Engr. ill.: title and 26 (of 29) maps i.a. Antwerp, Limbourg, Mechelen, Luxembourg, Ghent, Sluis, Hulst, Lille, Arras, Cambrai, Mons, Namur and Liège. This volume includes the first and second parts of the 1660 edition, i.e. the general introduction and the part on the Spanish Netherlands, but not the third part about the Seventeen Provinces (Belgica Foederata) that was often bound separately. The maps of Lier, Grave and Sas van Gent are missing.
Ref. Guicc. Illustr. 26. - STCN 843348054.