Live veiling - Lot 624
[Belgium - Netherlands]
Les délices des Pais-Bas ou Description générale de ses dix-sept provinces, de ses principales villes & de ses lieux les plus renommez [...]. Édition nouvelle [...].
Brussels, F. Foppens, 1700
€ 200 / 300
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Beschrijving lot
12mo: 535 [incl. title]-[13] pp., 28 pl. (waterstains, a few sm. tears).
Modern calf, flat spine (very sm. traces of use).
Second edition by P. Foppens (1st ed. by J.B. Christyn: 1697) of this nice topographical bestseller. New revised editions were successful during the whole 18th c. (last ed. in 5 vol.: 1786). Complete according the table of contents with frontispiece, and 28 engraved illustrations by Jacques Harrewijn, except "La cour de Bruxelles" by Kemnitz, incl. a folding map of the Low Countries, 20 city maps and 7 views of monuments.
Ref. De le Court 284. - Not in STCN (only Dutch ed. 1785).
Prov. J.J.A. Poley (ex-libris). - Hubert Marjan (libr. stamp). - Old ms. ownership on title deleted.