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Belgium - Brabant - SANDERUS, Antonius - Chorographia sacra Brabantiae, sive celebrium aliquot in ea provincia abbatiarum, coenobiorum, monasteriorum, ecclesiarum, piarumque fundationum descriptio (...) imaginibus aeneis illustrata. Tomus primus [-...

Estimation : 1200 / 1200
Adjudication : Invendu
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tertius].
The Hague, Chr. van Lom, 1726-1727
3 vol., folio, cont. mottled calf (skilfully repaired, new marbled endpapers, sl. rubbed), richly gilt spines on 7 raised bands with red & green labels, [10]-569-[1], [2]-370-[2], [2]-385-[1] pp. (some minor soiling or thumbing). Good set.   2nd ed. (1st 1656-1666) of this profusely illustrated topographical work most valuable on account of the changes (cp. 1st ed.) to a number of plates (most of the new pls are differently oriented). Engr. ills: front. portrait of Sanderus, 3 title-vign. by D. Coster, 1 headpiece with portrait and coat-of-arms of the dedicatee Maria Elisabetha by F. v. Bleyswyck, 5 full-page pl. depicting i.a. Our Lady of Montaigu and Archduke Leopold William kneeling before the Virgin of Alsemberg, 61 double-page plates showing abbeys, monasteries, convents, Marian devotional places, including Affligem, Antwerp, Averbode, Brussels, Grimbergen, Louvain, Mechelen, Tongerlo, Villers, etc. and 50 ills in text depicting coat-of-arms of monasteries and their abbots or saints. General title in red & black. Text in 2 cols.
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