Live auction - Lot 1302
[Dutch Revolt - Ghent]
Ordonnantie ende Edict opt faict vande exercitie van beede der Religien/ ghestatueert by Bailliu/ Scepenen [...] by aduise van [...] den Prince van Oraengnen [...] den xvj.sten Decembris/ Anno/ M. D. Lxxviij.
Ghent, G. Manilius for Wid. P. de Clerck, 1578
€ 200 / 300
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Lot description
4to: [7] ff. (final blank missing).
18th-c. calf, gilt spine with 5 raised bands, gilt sides, red sp. edges, marbled endpapers, pink silk marker (filled up with blank paper). Very good copy.
Agreement about churches and chapels, issued 16 December 1578, between Ghent Catholics and Protestants, at the instigation of William the Silent. Woodcut arms on title. Printed in gothic type.
Ref. BT 2856. - Bibl. gant. 314. - VdWulp 8705. - Pettegree NB 13135. - STC Dutch (BL) 85. - Not in Adams.
Prov. Fr. X. Borluut de Noortdonck, famous Ghent bibliophile (1771-1857) (engr. bookpl. by Ch. Onghena).