Lot n° 1153

Chivalric novel - BELLEVILLE, Philippe de - Theatre d’histoire où, avec les gra(n)ds prouesses et auentures êtranges, du noble et vertueux Cheualier Polimantes, Prince d’Arfine, se representent au vrâi, plusieurs occurrences fort rares et...

Estimation : 650 / 650
Adjudication : Invendu
Description
merueilleuses, tant de paix, que de guerre, arriuees (…) es plus celebres (…) païs (…) du monde.
Brussels, R. Velpius, 1613
4to, old polished calf (rubbed), richly gilt spine on 5 raised bands (head def.), gilt sides, red edges, gilt inside dentelles, marbl. endpapers, [20]-588 pp. (paper age-toned, sm. tear rep. p. 255, def. to blank top margin of title). Good copy. Rare 2nd issue (1st 1610) of a chivalric roman à clef about the nobility in the Spanish Netherlands, dedicated to Albert and Isabella. Key : Charles V = Cesar Carlipente; Philip II = Regimonte; Marie de Médicis = Reine de Meoce; Brussels = Paludine; Flanders = Pleumosie. Engr. title, 2 large and 58 smaller text engravings. Old ownership entry on title, front flyleaf and last p. "Guÿon du Sardiere". 19th-c.  bookpl. E. Délicourt.
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