Live auction - Lot 1078
[Belgium - Brussels]
Description de la ville de Bruxelles, enrichie du plan de la ville et de perspectives.
[FRICX, Georges]
Hammer price: €
280
€ 100 / 150
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Lot description
Brussels, J.L. de Boubers, 1782
12mo: [4]-lviii-[2]-131-[1] pp.; 5 pl. (sl. damp stains, one single wormhole to lower margin and wormtrack at the end).
Contemp. marbled sheep, gilt-orn. spine with raised bands, red edges (front joint splitting and lower one split on 2 cm, 3 corners bumped).
Illustrated with a large fold. plan of Brussels in 1782 by J.-F. La Rue and with 4 fold. views (the Place Royale with the statue of Charles of Lorraine, Minerva Fountain in the Sablon, view of the canal and the Place St-Michel, i.e. Place des Martyrs now).
Ref. De le Court 291. - Opac KBR.
Prov. Ex praemio from the Royal College of Aalst to Joannes Van Eesbecke (ms. note dated 1791). - H. van der Schelden, publisher from Ghent (bookpl.).