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. (foxing, many to some ff./pl., stain to top margin of first ff./pl. of vol. II).

Mod. three-quarter marbled sheep, paper covers, gilt orn. spines with raised bands, a.e.g. (a few traces of use).

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. depicting 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.