Lot n° 796

Belgium - Antwerp - LE ROY, Jacques - Notitia Marchionatus Sacri Romani Imperii, hoc est urbis et agri Antverpiensis oppidorum, dominiorum, monasteriorum, castellorumque (...). Amsterdam, Gebr. Kraay, 1859, 1861

Estimation : 900 / 900
Adjudication : Invendu
Description
Amsterdam, Albertus Magnus, 1678 folio, cont. blindst. vellum (some stains on lower cover), spine on 6 raised bands (sl. splitting upper joint), gilt brown leather title label, [4]-504-[4] pp. (some pls outside collation trimmed to plate or more & underlaid, some browning, some tears repaired, edge of pp. 387 cut off without loss of text). In all still a good copy. First edition of this important topographical & heraldic work by Le Roy (1633-1719). Contains a nice engr. title by A. van Diepenbeeck with on verso the engr. "schema metallorum", printed title mentioning the availability at Albertus Magnus's, 19 double pls outside coll. of which 2 maps, 2 city maps and i.a. "couvent des chartreux à Lierre", "castrum toparchiae de Broechem", "Tungerloa", "Turnhout celebre Taxandriae municipium", etc. and 64 (of 65, lacking Schilde) smaller pls showing views of Wijnegem, Hoboken, Hemiksem, Westmalle, Kleidaal, Tongerlo, Turnhout, Corsendonk, etc. With +/- 150 ills in text depicting coats-of-arms or ills of tombs.
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