Ventes live - Lot 1096
[Belgium - Netherlands]
Histoire générale des Pais-Bas, contenant la description des XVII Provinces. Édition nouvelle [...].
Brussels, Fr. Foppens, 1720
€ 100 / 150
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Description du lot
4 vol., 8vo: front.-[26]-355, front.-[10]-390, front.-[10]-399, front.-[10]-392 pp. (sm. upper part of titles cut off, a red printed collector's name?).
Contemp. polished gilt- and blind-ruled sheep (rubbed, some sm. def.), spines with 5 raised bands (joints rubbed, tail of vol. I def.), red leather title labels.
Sixth edition of this topographical work. Illustrated with 4 frontispieces and 62 (of 143) folding plates by Harrewijn or P. Devel, depicting maps of cities (map of the XVII Provinces present). Titles in red.
Ref. de le Court p. 312 sq. - STCV.
Prov. "John Morse 1725" (ms. entry in each vol., mostly erased or cut off). - Large engr. armorial bookpl. by Harry Soane, 1907 with motto "Soli deo honor et gloria in scla sclor", in each vol.