Live auction - Lot 1198
[Low Countries]
Descrittione di tutti i Paesi Bassi, altrimenti detti Germania inferiore [...].
[GUICCIARDINI, Lodovico
€ 400 / 500
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Lot description
Antwerp, G. Silvius, 1567]
Folio: [6 (of 20)]-296 [= 337] pp.; 1 pl. (14 prelims incl. the allegorical title, the 2 dedicatory front. and the portrait of Philip II missing, 20 pp. of index at the end missing; marg. dampstaining on 1st ff. and in the inner margin at the end, first and last inner margins repaired, margins of fold. map repaired, two tears without lack to that map, sm. marg. tears (strengthened to last ff.), marg. wormtracks reinforced, tear to the pl. of 's-Hertogenbosch, occ. foxing).
Contemp. vellum, spine with raised bands.
First edition. Copy complete with the 5 maps (Low Countries copper engr.) and 12 city maps & views on double page (Leuven, Brussels, Antwerp cathedral and city hall (copper), Den Bosch, Amsterdam, Ghent, Bruges, Liège).
Ref. Touwaide 1973, 3/6. - Pettegree (NB) 13995 (= BT 1360). - Adams G-1540. - Guicciardini illustratus 1. - Not in BB.
Prov. Label from an Italian library on spine.