Live veiling - Lot 1161
[Louvain]
Opera varia: scilicet Rerum Lovaniensium libri IV. Annalium ejusdem oppidi libri VIII [...]. De Galliae Belgicae antiquitatibus [...] [and] NUENARIUS, Hermannus - De Gallia Belgica commentariolus [...] [and] ORTELIUS, Abraham & VIVIANUS, Johannes - Itinerarium.
Louvain, H. vander Haert, 1757
€ 200 / 250
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Beschrijving lot
5 parts in 1 vol., folio: frontisp.-[16]-124, 112, [4]-18, [2]-12, [2]-22-[24] pp. (minor spotting, 1 pl. rep.).
Cont. marbl. calf, gilt spine on 6 raised bands, red leather title label, red edges, marbl. endpapers (sl. rubbed, front joint starting to split). Good copy.
First edition of the collected works of the Brabant historian P. Divaeus (1535-1581), incl. his history of Louvain and its important families, as well as archeological works on Southern Belgium by himself, Nuenarius, Ortelius and Vivianus. Engr. ill.: nice frontisp. with small author's portrait by A. van Campen, double-page folding map of "Nova Gallia Belgica", 8 plates with coats-of-arms of Louvain families (6 full-page, 2 double-page or folding, 1 signed Catoir). Title in red and black. Text in 2 cols. Ref. STCV. - BL. - Bn-Opale plus.