De levens der Heylige van Nederlant met een kort begryp hoe het Evangelie eerst in Nederlant begost heeft, voortgegaen is, en tot dese tijden gebleven. Getrocken en by een vergadert uyt de geloofweerdigste schryvers.

2 vol., 4to: [20]-xcviii [= 100]-460-[4], [2]-487-[5] pp. (some light browning or spotting, staining towards the end of vol. II, 1 sm. burn hole, 1 sm. hole in blank margin, 1 long ms. note in blank lower margin).

Contemp. calf (rubbed, a few sm. def., library labels), gilt spines with 5 raised bands (heads & 1 tail def.). Good copy.

Rare first and only edition of this collection of Saints' lives from the Low Countries, by the priest A. van Loo (1659-1727). Ill. with 14 engraved full-page portraits of early missionaries, apostles, martyrs and bishops from the region, like Charles the Good, Amandus, Gertrude of Nivelles, Servatius and Maternus of Tongeren, Rumoldus, Willibrordus, and Bavo and Livinus of Ghent (these last 2 pl. showing in the background the church of St Bavo's Abbey (destroyed in 1540), St Bavo's Cathedral and the Ghent Belfry). Full-page engraved arms of Marie-Jeanne Catherine della Faille, widow of Jean-François della Faille, first baron of Nevele, to whom the book is dedicated. First title in red & black.
Ref. Bibl. gant. 1480. - BCNI 16394. - STCV.
Prov. "A. Dolmans" & "G. Huygermans" (old ms. entries).