Le Grand Théâtre profane [- sacré] du Duché de Brabant.

Contemp. mottled sheep, gilt.-orn. and titled spines with raised bands, gilt-ruled boards, red edges (joints sl. rubbed, corners bumped, some light scratches on boards). Large margined copy.

Two uniformly bound chorographic works on the Archbishoprics of Antwerp, Mechelen, 's-Hertogenbosch and Walloon Brabant. 1. Le Roy, Jacques - Le Grand Théâtre profane du Duché de Brabant [...] à quoi l'on ajouté la description topographique & historique de Brabant-Wallon [...]. Chr. Van Lom, 1730. 2 parts in 1 vol., folio: [4]-64, [4]-151-[11] pp.; 72 pl. (map missing, occ. light marg. spotting). Only French edition of this compilation of "Topographia historica Gallo-Brabantiae" (1692) and "Castella & praetoria nobilium Brabantiae, coenobiaque celebriora" (1699). Ill. with 72 full-page engr. of plans and views of the cities and castles. - 2. Le Grand Théâtre sacré [...]. G. Block, 1734. 4 parts in 3 vol., folio: [6]-176, [2]-177/394-40, [2]-212-[2]-134-14 pp.; 280 pl. (occ. light marg. spotting, few marg. notes in old hand). Second French ed. (1st French Van Lom, 1729) of this important work on Brabant, an anonymous redesign of the "Groot Kerkelyk toneel" (1st Dutch 1727), largely based on C. van Gestel's "Historia sacra et profana archiepiscopatus Mechliniense" (1725), and often wrongly attributed to Jacques le Roy. It is divided into 4 parts: the Archdiocese of Mechelen, Walloon Brabant and the dioceses of Antwerp and 's-Hertogenbosch. Abundantly illustrated with more than 250 pl. (full-page, double-page or folding), engr. by a.o. J. Harrewijn and R. Blokhuysen, figuring funerary monuments, tombstones and stained glass windows, coats of arms, views of abbeys, churches, castles and convents, portraits of bishops and archbishops, 2 maps (1 double-page and 1 fold.) and 5 in-text ill. Incl. the table with "inscriptions et épitaphes".
Ref. BB V:330-331 (Théâtre sacré). - BB III:854-857 (Théâtre profane). - STCN.