Live auction - Lot 1077
[Belgium - Brabant]
Chorographia sacra Brabantiae sive Celebrium aliquot in ea provincia ecclesiarum et coenobiorum descriptio. Imaginibus aeneis illustrata [...].
Brussels, Ph. Vleugaert, 1659
Hammer price: €
550
€ 400 / 500
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Lot description
23 parts in 1 vol., folio; 21 pl. (without front. portrait of Sanderus and many plates missing, heavily browned and occ. repaired).
Contemp. mottled calf, marbled paper covers, flat spine (joint broken, very used).
1st edition, 1st vol. only, incomplete with only a part of the illustrations. Contains the following text parts and engr. plates (in order of binding): Palace of Coudenberg (1 map, 3 pl.), Kortenberg abbey, Status aulicus, Antwerp (St Salvator, St Michel), Villers (1 pl.), Leuven (St. Gertrud, 2 pl.), Vlierbeek (1 pl.), Affligem, the Carthusians of Brussels, the Beguinage of Brussels (Helissem, 1 pl.), Sint-Pieter ter Ziekenpriorij, St Jacques of Coudenberg, Laeken (Church of Our Lady, Castle Malinez, Castle Achlen, 3 pl.), Groenendael (1 pl.), Rouge-Cloître (1 pl.), Dielegem abbey (1 pl.), Grimbergen (1 pl)., Vorst (1 pl.), Affligem (1 pl.), Leliendael (1 pl.), Scherpenheuvel (in-text, 1 pl.), St Michael and Gudula (1 in-text), Averbode (1 pl.). The stock of a 2nd vol. was completely destroyed during the bombardment of Brussels in 1695, only 5 or 6 copies survived.
Ref. BB V:49-63. - Funck 392. - STCV.
Prov. Libr. stamp.