Voyage pittoresque de la Flandre et du Brabant, avec des réflexions relativement aux arts & quelques gravures [...].

8vo: xxii-[2]-328-[11] pp.; 6 pl. (half-title missing, some min. foxing, ms. annotations on 3 lvs).

19th-c. red shagreen, red embossed paper on boards, richly gilt orn. spines with raised bands, black leather labels, blue spr. edges (sl. rubbed, bumped corners).

First edition of this work by the French painter J.-B. Descamps (1714-1791), ill. with an armorial engr. headpiece by Le Mire after Descamps and 5 engr. plates mostly showing pulpits; complete with the fold. map. The work lists the artistic riches of Brussels, Leuven, Mechelen, Antwerp, Ghent, Bruges, Mons, Tournai, Dixmude, etc. Title in red & black. Interesting old marginal ms. comments on 3 liminary lvs (folded to preserve the notes from trimming),
Ref. Conlon 69:728. - Cohen 287.
Prov. Jean-Baptiste Moens (armorial bookpl. and library label in vol. 1 of the joined work).
Joined, same author, publisher, format, binding, provenance and condition: La vie des peintres flamands, allemands et hollandois, avec des portraits [...]. Paris, Ch.-A. Jombert [- Desaint & Saillant, Pissot, Durand] (Rouen, printed by Abr. Viret [- Viret fils]), 1753-1764. 4 vol.: xvi-437-[3], [4]-480-[8], xvi-402-[6], viii-302-[24] pp. (front. missing, some min. spotting and foxing, marg. damp stains in vol. 1). First edition of this reference work. Engr. ill.: 1 (of 2) armorial headpiece by Le Mire after Descamps (the arms of the dedication to de La Live are not printed), 168 half page portraits by Ficquet, Gaillard, Legrand i.a. after Descamps, Eisen and Campion. Titles in red & black. Ref. Brunet II:608. - Cohen 287. - Conlon 53:598. - Arntzen & Rainwater H88. (5 vol.)