Live auction - Lot 1273
[Brussels]
Bruxella, incomparabili exemplo septenaria, gripho palladio descripta: luminibus historicis, politicis, miscellaneis distincta & explicata.
Brussels, J. Mommaert, 1646
Hammer price: €
270
€ 300 / 400
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Lot description
Sm. folio: [24]-146-[9] pp.; 3 pl. (browning, spotting, light water stain throughout, title reinforced).
Contemp. calf, covers ruled with gilt fillet, gilt orn. spine with raised bands (bumped, joints splitting, tail def.).
Only edition of this symbolic history of Brussels by Puteanus. Engr. ill.: title vign. by Hollar (arms of Brussels), 3 double-page pl. (i.a. panoramic view of the city by A. Santvoort and Cathedral of St. Michael and St. Gudula), 2 full-page pl. and 2 fig. in text (i.a. "Septem familiarum insignia").
Ref. BB IV:812-813:P-276. - STCV.
Bound with, same printer and place: De Condé, Jacques - Costuymen ende rechten der stadt Brussel [...]. 1657. 4 parts in 1 vol.: [16], 220, 128, [4] pp. (pp. 215-220 from another unidentified edition). With an engr. vign. on title and a large printer's mark on last f. Title printed in red and black. With list of prices of cereals from 1500 till 1803 (printed till 1703, hand-filled till 1803). Ref. STCV.