De seer wonderlijcke, schoone, triumphelijcke incompst, van den hooghmogenden prince Philips, prince van Spaignen, Caroli des vijfden, Keysers sone. Inde stadt van Antwerpen, anno, M.CCCCC.XLIX. [...].

Sm. folio: [56] ff. (woodcut title and title ± soiled, a few (water) stains, some ff. cut shaving the text, fold. plate repaired in the fold, contemp. mentions and scribbles on last bl. p.).

17th-c. vellum, ink-titled spine. Good copy.

Dutch translation (attributed to Gillis van Diest) of the original Latin text of Grapheus (1487-1558), town secretary of Antwerp. Great Antwerp Renaissance book showing the splendid structures built for the Joyous Entry of the future King Philip of Spain. Woodcuts: title and last text page within elaborate grotesque border, 28 fig. showing triumphal arches, erected by the foreign workers resident in Antwerp, and theatrical decors after designs by Pieter Coecke van Aelst.
ref. Landwehr, SC, 25. - BT 1326. - Adams S-764. - Machiels G-448 = VdWulp 63. - STC Dutch 185. - Pettegree (NB) 13683. - Berlin Kat. 2938.
Prov. Gomer Spranger (Antwerp 1577-1640 Amsterdam), important Dutch merchant trading with Northern Russia, director of the West India Company in 1624 (censored ms. entry on woodcut title; ref. Hart, S. - "Amsterdam shipping and trade to Northern Russia in the Seventeenth Century", in Mededelingen van de Nederlandse Vereniging voor zeegeschiedenis. 26, 1973, pp. 5-121, cf. p. 26 and nota 167).