Live auction - Lot 700

[Flanders - Antwerp]

Commentarii sive Annales rerum Flandricarum libri septendecim.

MEYERUS, Jacobus


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Antwerp, (J. Grapheus for) J. Steelsius, 1561

Folio: [18]-374 ff. (water stains on 1st and last ff., sm. missing of paper on f. 2M without loss of text, old pen annot.).

18th-c. marbled calf, gilt-orn. spine with raised bands, red edges (some min. def. on side-edges and corners).

Posthumous revised ed. of Meyerus's "Compendium chronicorum Flandriae" (1538), edited by his nephew Antonius Meyerus. An early humanist history of Flanders, from the Counts of Flanders until Charles the Bold. Title within orn. border, large woodcut Steelsius mark on 1st and last page.
Ref. BT 2118. - Haitsma Mulier-VdLem 337b. - Adams M-1390. - Pettegree (NB) 21309. - STC Dutch (BL) 134. - STCV 7036489.
Prov. Fiévet de Chaumont, attorney and adviser to the bailiwick in Lille (armorial bookpl.). - Id., heir of the former and also an attorney (typogr. bookpl.; cf. ms. note pasted to the flyleaf). - V. Giard & E. Brière, booksellers and publishers in Paris (stamps). - Ms. note on the author, attributed to François Saudo (Brussels, 1895).

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Lot 700

Commentarii sive Annales rerum Flandricarum libri septendecim.

MEYERUS, Jacobus

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