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Nice album containing : t.-p. with vign., list of plates and
28 amazing engravings
of i.a. the cathedrals of
Milan, Rouen, Antwerp, Reims, St. Omer, Paris, etc., the Palace of Justice of Rouen, the town hall of
Louvain, Arras, Ghent, etc., the clocktower of Bergues, the university of Pavia, etc. (lacking : the Clock
Tower of Rouen, the cathedrals of Malines, Strasburg and Friburg). Libr. stamps.
729
[Germany - Mainz] - PERSON, Nikolaus -
Novae Archiepiscopatus Moguntini tabulae. Mainz,
s.n., [c. 1695], folio, mod. half vellum, 21 pls all mounted on stubs (waterstains on 3 last maps).
Exc. copy.
Cfr. ill.
€ 4000/5000
Extr. rare
suite of maps and pl. engraved and edited by Nikolaus Person (166x-1710).
Magnificent
engravings
: title, dedication (printed from 2 joined plates), double-page allegorical pl., "Notarum clavis",
and 17 maps : Archiepiscopatus Moguntini typus, Eisfelde, Erfurt, Naumburg, Fritzlar, Katzenberg,
Neustadt, Amoeneburg, Locorum MönoMogono Adiacentium (Superior, Media, Inferior), Bischoffsheim und
Krautheim, Allnfeldt und Neydenaw, Amorbach, Rheno Superior, Rheno Inferior, [Münster /Koblenz].
730
[India - Sri Lanka] - RIBEIRO, João -
Histoire de l'isle de Ceylan. Traduit du portugais par
l'abbé Le Grand. Enrichie de figures en taille-douce. Suivant la copie de Trevoux. Amsterdam,
J.L. De Lorme, 1701, 12mo, cont. calf (sl. spotted), spine on 4 raised bands (sm. repairs at tail),
[24]-352-[4 bl.] pp. (somewhat spotting and dampstaining). Good copy.
€ 400/500
Amsterdam ed. (1st publ. the same year) of the French trsl. by Joachim Le Grand (1653-1733) of this work
on Sri Lanka by the Portuguese soldier Ribeiro. Ill. with
7 folding engr. pl.
by
Berey
depicting local plants,
cityplans or maps (i.a. "Ponta de Gale", "Baye de Triquinimale et de Cotiari", "Isle de Manar"). Title in red
& black. Stamps.
Ref.
STCN (5). COPAC. Cp. Barbier III 866 (Trévoux, Paris ed. 1701).
731
[Low Countries] - [CHRISTYN, Jan Baptist] -
Les délices des Pais-Bas, contenant une
description generale des XVII Provinces. Edition nouvelle, divisée en III. Volumes (...). Brussels,
François Foppens, 1711, 3 vols, 8vo, cont. calf (sl. rubbed), gilt spines on 5 raised bands (def. at
head, rubbed, Vol I & II : upper joints sl. splitting), front.-[14]-400, front.-[4]-384, front.-[6]-
470-[1-1 bl.] pp. (some sm. waterstains, minor tears, minor worming in vol. II, sl. browning).
Good copy.
€ 200/300
Later ed. (1st 1697).
Engraved illustrations
by
Harrewyn
or
P. Devel
: 3 frontisp., 1 map of the 17
Provinces with coat-of-arms, 23 city maps, 1 portrait and 52 views of monuments, etc. Ownership entries on
flylvs "Jean Lemaigre Charleroi" and "François de (?) Bruges 1852".
Ref.
de le Court p. 312.
732
[Low Countries] - GUICCIARDINI, Lodovico -
Description de tout le Païs-Bas, autrement
dict la Germanie inferieure, ou basse-Allemagne (...). Antwerp, Guillaume Silvius, 1568, sm.
folio, cont. vellum (soiled, def.), flat spine (def.), [23-1 bl.]-389 (= 405)-[25] pp. (lacking last ff.
of index; error in pagination, 1st and last quires badly dam. with some losses, t.-p. & other ff.
loose, maps loosening, badly frayed edges esp. in 1st and last quires, some waterstains, some
marg. stains, dog-eared, splitt. c'folds of maps). S.w.a.f.
€ 350/450
Silvius ed. of the French trsl. by François Flory of a monument in the history of the Low Countries : the
eloquent description of its 16th-c. towns by the Italian resident author Guicciardini (1521-1589). Identical to
the 1567-ed., only the date on the t.-p. was changed.
Woodcut and engr. ills
: title, coat-of-arms and portrait
of Philip II in oval medallion, all 3 in decorative border,
15 (of 20) engr. ills
:
4 maps
(Brabant, Holland,
Flandres, Hainaut),
10 city maps/panoramic views
&
1 view
(Antwerp cathedral). The (usually missing)
view of the Antwerp town-hall is completely torn. Some cont. ms. marg. notes. Ms ownership entries on t.-p.
and last flyleaf.
Ref.
Guicc. Illustr. 3, p. 30.
~ Beautiful illustrated 1st German edition of Guicciardini's "Descrittione" ~
733
[Low Countries] - GUICCIARDINI, Lodovico -
Niderlands Beschreibung in welcher aller
darinn begriffnen Landschafften, Fürstenthumben, Graueschafften, Herzschafften, Bisthumber,
Abteyten, Stetten (...). Mit Geographischen Tafeln, Stetten und andern Figuren (...). Basel,
Sebastian Henricpetri, 1580, folio, cont. limp vellum (some stains), flat spine, light blue edges,
[28]-cccxxxv-[2] pp. (upper margins of 1st half sl. dampstained, 1 double-page map sl.
dampstained & loosening). Nice copy.
Cfr. ill.
€ 3000/4000
Rare 1st German ed.
by Daniel Federman von Memmingen of the famous description of the Low Countries.
Woodcuts
:
4 double-page maps
(each
with a separate title on recto within a different woodcut historiated
border),
20 maps, cityplans or city-views in text
(i.a. 3 maps of the Rhine, Brabant, Louvain, Antwerp, 's
Hertogenbosch, Malines, Groningen, Haarlem, Bruges, Arras, Mons, etc.) and
84 ills in text
showing
portraits, views, etc. Henricpetri used for this ed. some woodblocks already used for Sebastian Münster's