Voyage pittoresque dans le Royaume des Pays-Bas, dédié à S.A.I. & R. Madame la princesse d'Orange.

2 vol. oblong, 4to; 2 engr. titles and 204 pl. (occ. foxing, some marg. tears in vol. II, some pl. sl. browned in the same vol.).

Contemp. three-quarter green leather, green paper on covers gilt ruled, gilt orn. spines with raised bands (rubbed, leather to spines detached, corners bumped, front flyleaves torn).

First edition of the text written by J.-J. De Cloet (Bruges 1790-Freyr 1855) and first issue of the 202 plates lithographed a.o. by Jean-Baptiste Madou, after the drawings of Otto van der Howen, B. Mary, T. Hubert, A. de Marbaix; etc. figuring city views, monuments, landscapes, castles..., in Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands. Copy complete with the 2 lithogr. titles by H.A Kreins, the portrait of the Princess of Orange by Prevost and of the fold. map with borders coloured.
Ref. Van der Marck, p. 73. - N. Walch, J.-B. Madou lithographe, 6-19.
Prov. Castle of Norderwyck (stamps).