Live auction - Lot 1338
[Brussels]
Bruxella, incomparabili exemplo septenaria, gripho palladio descripta. Luminibus historicis, politicis, miscellaneis distincta & explicata.
Brussels, J. Mommaert, 1646
€ 400 / 500
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Lot description
Sm. folio: [24]-146-[9-1 bl.] pp. (some spotting, sm. tear in blank bottom C4).
Contemp. mottled calf (corners bumped), covers with large gilt coat of arms within double gilt ruled border, richly gilt spine with 6 raised bands (joints split, front cover loosening, tail defect), red leather title label, a.e.g.
Only edition of this symbolic history of Brussels by Puteanus. Engr. ill.: title-vign. by Hollar (arms of Brussels), 3 double-page pl. (i.a. panoramic view of the city by A. Santvoort and Cathedral of St. Michael and St. Gudula), 2 full-page pl. and 2 fig. in text (i.a. "Septem familiarum insignia").
Ref. BB IV:812-813:P-276. - Matagne (Namur) P-271. - STCV. - de Jonghe d'Ardoye III:879-880.
Prov. Family Sweerts-Landas (large gilt arms on both covers). - 2 bookpl. partly torn out. - Auguste De Bruyne (Mechelen), the so-called "bibliomane" (stamp).