Les genealogies et anciennes descentes des Forestiers et Comtes de Flandre, avec brieves descriptions de leurs vies et gestes [ed. Petrus Baltazar].

Sm. folio: [6]-119-[2, 1 bl.] pp. (some foxing, first and last ff. dampstained, sl. browned, pp. 113-114 reinforced).

19th-c. half light brown sprinkled leather, speckled paper covers, gilt orn. spine with raised bands, red sprinkled edges (sl. used).

Famous collection of short biographies of the Counts of Flanders, 1st publ. ca. 1580. On A2r a French poem by J. vander Noot. Engraved ill.: title, arms of dedicatee, map and arms of Flanders, and 40 portraits, numbered 1-7 and 1-33 (pl. 19 misnumbered "20e"), and ill. poem by Ch. de Navieres. Sm. woodcut coats of arms in text.
Ref. BT 2060. - USTC 24737 = Pettegree NB 20669. - STC Dutch (BL) 129.
Prov. Fernand Dormet, Antwerp (ms. ownership entry, 1880).