Live auction - Lot 863

[Low Countries - Bibliography]

FOPPENS, Joannes Franciscus

Bibliotheca Belgica, sive Virorum in Belgio vita, scriptisque illustrium catalogus, librorumque nomenclatura [...].

Brussels, P. Foppens, 1739

€ 400 / 500

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2 vol., 4to: [2]-xxxxi-[3]-600, [2]-601/1233-[1 bl.] pp. (without the "avis au relieur" at the end of vol. 1, one pl. loose in 1st vol., some tears in a couple of fold. pl. due to folding, some browning).

Contemp. mottled calf, gilt-orn. spines with raised bands, red edges (joints cracked, spines, heads and tails def.).

The famous biographical dictionary of Latin authors from the Low Countries. Engr. ill.: 3 nice headpieces by Harrewijn i.a. a library scene and 144 (79, 65) portraits outside collation (a few folding) by Harrewijn, C. Galle, N. de Larmessin, etc. depicting authors, artists, painters, musicians, scientists, printers such as A. Ortelius, A. Vesalius, A. Van Dyck, B. Moretus, C. Plantin, G. Mercator, H. Goltzius, J. Van Eyck, J. Vondel, J. Lipsius, O. de Lassus, P.P. Rubens, J. Cats, etc. Sm. engr. portraits of Estius and Fr. Villain loosely added. Text printed in double col. Titles in red and black.
Ref. BB III:29-30:F-5. - Besterman 710. - STCV.

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Lot 863

Bibliotheca Belgica, sive Virorum in Belgio vita, scriptisque illustrium catalogus, librorumque nomenclatura [...].

FOPPENS, Joannes Franciscus

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