323 / 416
323
presentee a son Alteze & Messeigneurs du Conseil d’Estat
, le vij. de Iulet, par les Protestans, de
vouloir viure selon la Reformation de l’Euangile, sur le faict de l’asseurance en l’exercice de l’une
& l’autre Religion. [Low Countries, s.n.], 1578, [2]-6 pp. [and]
Supplicatie aen sijn Hoocheyt/
en(de) Heeren des Raets van State
/ Ouergegeuen door de inwoonders deser Nederlanden/
welcke protesteren/ dat sy begeren te leuen nae de Reformatie des Euangeliums. [Antwerp, Chr.
Plantin?], 1578, [2]-XXII pp. (stain in top of title) [and]
Tweede supplicatie (…) op t’stuck vande
versekeringhe/ nopende d’exercitie van beyde de Religien
. 1578. [Antwerp, Chr. Plantin or Chr.
Hauwelius?], 1578, vii-[1] pp., 4 works in 1 vol., 4to, 18th-c. polished calf, gilt spine on 5 raised
bands, gilt sides, red edges, marbl. endpapers, silk marker. Nice copy.
€ 400/600
4 rare important pamphlets on religious freedom in the Low Countries. From the collection of the
Mechelen bibliophile G.J. de Servais (1735-1807).
Ref. 1.
B.T. 4148. Pettegree FB 42639. Knuttel
362. Not in TB, Adams.
2.
Pettegree FB 42638. Knuttel 366. Not in B.T., TB, Adams.
3.
B.T. 4443.
Pettegree NB 22332. Knuttel 363. Not in Adams, TB.
4.
B.T. 4444. Pettegree 22394 = 28674. Knuttel
367. Not in Adams, TB.
1111 [Plantin Press - Flanders]
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OUDEGHERST, Pierre d’
- Les chroniques et annales de Flandres:
contenant les heroicques et tresvictorieux exploicts des Forestiers, & Comtes de Flandres (...)
depuis l’an (...) VIc. & XX jusques a l’an M.CCCC.LXXVI. Antwerp, Chr. Plantin (printed by
J. Withagen), 1571, 4to, cont. calf (corners sl. bumped and rubbed), spine on 5 raised bands, red
spreckled edges, [20]-340 ff. (outer margin of title and last page strengthened (stamps cut out), title
sl. soiled, some stains, hole in margin of last quire).
€ 150/250
Only edition
of this history of the County of Flanders up to 1476 by P. d’Oudegherst (Lille
1540-Madrid 1592), Flemish lawyer and historian, at one time in the service of Emperor Maximilian
II, to whom the work is dedicated. The Biographie Nationale attributes part of the text to his father
Jean d’Oudegherst (d. 1559). The text is preceded by a prologue by Fabio Masqui d’Urbino.
Plantin had too much work with his famous Biblia Polyglotta and had a number of printing tasks
done by his colleague Jan (Ver)Withagen. Woodcut historiated initials and ornaments. Mark on title
and “Bibliotheca Eenamensis 1742”.
Ref.
Voet 1841. B.T. 2314. Pettegree FB 40114 = NB 23327.
Adams O-422. Bn-Opale plus.
1112 [Plantin Press - Low Countries]
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GUICCIARDINI, Lodovico
- Description de touts les Pais-
Bas, autrement appellés la Germanie inferieure, ou basse Allemagne (...). Antwerp, Chr. Plantin,
1582, folio, rebound in a mod. richly decorated blindstamped calf (rubbed, waterstains on lower
edge), gilt spine on 5 raised bands, red gilt title label, [24]-495-[21] pp. (waterstains, stains due to
deletions).
Cfr. ill.
€ 2000/3000
Plantin’s French ed. 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). With an
allegorical front.
1112