Annales de la province et comté d’Haynau où l'on voit la suitte [sic] des comtes depuis leur commencement. Les antiquitez de la religion, et de l'estat depuis l'entrée de Iules Cesar dans le pays. Ensemble les evesques de Cambray, qui y ont gouverné. Les fondations pieuses des églises et monastères. Et les descentes de la noblesse [...]. Augmentées et achevées par le R.P. Antoine Ruteau [...] à la poursuite de Jean Vinchant [...], frère de l'autheur.

Folio: front.-[12]-418-[14] pp. (some soiling, spotting and foxing, front. reinforced).

18th-c. marbled calf, gilt. orn. spine with raised bands, red edges (scratches on cover, turn-ins missing, rubbed, joints used).

First edition of this historical work by Vinchant (1580-1655), which is considered one of the masterpieces of the history of Hainaut in the Middle Ages and which was enlarged and completed by the minor friar Antoine Ruteau (d. 1657). Illustrated with an engraved title by Jean de Labarre showing an allegorical representation of Hainaut, flanked by Saint Waudru and Saint Vincent, in front of an arch with busts of Philip II, Maximilian, Philip IV, Charles V and the Archduke Albert. Title in red and black.
Ref. Rousselle 285. - STC French book 1601-1700 V-462. - Saffroy 24031.
Prov. Dupont de St Ouën (bookpl.).