Histoire générale de l'auguste maison d'Autriche, contenant une description exacte de tous ses empereurs, rois, ducs, archiducs & autres princes, tant ecclésiastiques que séculiers [...].

3 vol., folio: [18]-474-[10], [6]-420-[11-1 bl.], [6]-507-[17] pp. (minor soiling).

Contemp. sheep (rubbed, some tears, covers rather weak but binding firm), gilt spines with 6 raised bands (def. at vol. I, sm. def. at heads & tails), red leather title labels. Good copy.

First edition of this well illustrated history of the Habsburg rulers from 678 to 1740 by the Brussels engraver, poet and publisher J.L. Krafft (1694-1768). Engr. ill. (complete): 3 front. (loose in vol. III), 74 full-page plates (33, 24, 17) showing portraits up to Maria Theresia (with also crowns and arms) and 3 head-pieces. Folding genealogical table in Pt. 2. List of subscribers in Pt 1. Titles in red and black. Woodcut title-vign.
Ref. Conlon 44:826. - STCV.
Prov. "Ex Libris Aegidius De Brauwer ex 't Vlaemshooft, 1775" (contemp. ms. entries, i.a. on titles and lower flyleaf vol. III). "Vlaams Hoofd" is Saint Anne on the left bank of Scheldt, facing the city of Antwerp. - Ms. notes on flylvs.