Les délices des Pays-Bas, ou Description géographique et historique des XVII. Provinces Belgiques. Sixième édition [...].

[CHRISTYN, Jean-Baptiste]

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Liège, J.F. Bassompierre, 1769

5 vol., 8vo: xxxi [front. incl.]-[1]-340, front.-[2]-422-[1], front.-[2]-377-[1], front.-[2]-409-[1], front.-[2]-395-[1] pp.; 139 pl. (some ff. sl. browned, marg. damp stain in vol. II and on the pl. of p. 64 same vol., some sl. foxing in vol. III and IV, sm. hole in pl. p. 77 of vol. V).

Contemp. marbled calf, gilt orn. spines with raised bands, red edges (some sl. traces of use, joints of vol. V partly split).

7th edition (and not 6th as mentioned on title) and 1st in 5 vol. Illustrated with 5 frontispieces and 139 plates, almost all fold., representing maps, plans, views of cities, monuments and castles.
Ref. De Theux 616. - Barbier I:873. - De le Court p. 312 sq. - H. Douxchamps, Bibliographie des Christyn, pp. 22-23, n. 34h (other coll.).