Theatre funebre ou sont representéez les funerailles de plusieurs princes et la vie, trespas, & magnifiques obseques de Albert le pie de treshault memoire archiduc d'Austrice, duc de Bourgoigne, Brabant, &c. Faicts a Bruxelles le 12. de mars, 1622.

8vo: [8]-278-[2] pp. (spotting & browning).

Contemp. overl. vellum, rebacked with mod. quarter sheep (used, soiled, front flyleaf gone).

First edition of this account of various royal funerals, i.e. Don Ferdinand (1515), Charles V (1558), Rudolph II (1612), Farnese (1592), archduke Ernest (1600), Johanna of Spain (1555), Philip II (1598), Albert (1622; about half of the book). Full-page woodcut on verso title representing a "chapelle ardente". An ed. in Dutch was publ. the same year.
Ref. Landwehr (Splendid ceremonies) 71. - STC French 1601-1700 (BL) M-807. - STCV.