Le premier [- tiers] volume des Illustrations de la Gaulle Belgique/ antiquitez du pays de Haynnau/ et de la gra[n]de cite de Belges: a present dicte Bauay/ dont procedent les chaussees de Brunehault [...].

3 parts in 1 vol. folio: [8]-cxlii (= 141)-[1], [4]-lxxxii (= 82), [6]-Cviii (= 108) ff. (minor soiling or dampstaining, blank bottom corner of a few ff. strengthened).

Old blind-decorated calf over wood, covers with strips of roll-stamps, gilt-titled spine on 5 raised bands (rebacked, head def., sm. def. to covers). Good copy.

First edition of the Middle French trsl. by the Franciscan Jacques de Guise (1340-1399) of the “Annales historiae illustrium principum Hannoniae”, and supplementary chronicles. Titles within elaborate woodcut border with name of Galliot du Pré. Full-page woodcuts (i.a. presentation scene) in I & III, and a large woodcut (copyist in scriptorium) in III. Titles I-II in red and black. Printed in gothic type, in 2 cols. Ref. BP16 106707 (I-II) & 106973 (III). - Bechtel (Gothiques) G-392. - De Troeyer 195 (I). - Moreau IV:178 (I-II) & 440 (III). - Pettegree FB 24567, 24568, 24570. - STC French (BL) Suppl. 40. - Not in Adams. Prov. A few old annotations and underlinings. - Old names on 1st title (partly erased). - Ex bibliotheca marci josephi de quinsonas in suprema Sequanorum Curia proto-praesidis (18th-c. heraldic bookpl.), i.e. Marc-Joseph de Pourroy, seigneur de Quinsonas, Président à Mortier au Parlement de Grenoble (1736). - Aug. De Bruyne, Malines (bookseller’s stamps).