Traité de l'origine des ducs et duché de Brabant, et de ses charges palatines héréditaires, avec une responce aux vindices de Ferrand pour les fleurs de lis de France.

4to: [10]-271-[1 bl.-13-1 bl.] pp.

Contemp. overl. vellum, flat spine titled in red ink. Good copy.

First edition of this historical work on Brabant. Ill. with 1 engr. folding table with 7 coats of arms. 2 folding printed genealogical tables ("Pépin le Bref" and "les comtes d'Ardenne").
Ref. De Ghellinck 455. - STCV.
Prov. Joannes Franciscus Foppens (1689-1761) "Bruxellensis, pbri S.T.L. Cathedr. Eccl. Brugensis Canonici", church historian and biographer (engr. armorial bookpl. by Jacobus Harrewijn, with motto "Quod vis videri esto"). - Bound at the beginning, a ms. leaf with genealogical end bio-bibliographical information on De Vaddere, probably written by Foppens. With mention of some ms. by De Vaddere in his collection ("penes me sunt"). - Julius Peeters (engr. bookpl. and libr. ticket).