Lot 1378
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Fasti Belgici et Burgundici.
MIRAEUS, Aubertus
€ 150 / 250
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Lot description
Brussels, J. Pepermans, [1622]
8vo: [16]-755-[44-1 bl.] pp. (toned).
Contemp. gilt calf, covers with gilt ruled border and oval central ornament, gilt spine with 4 raised bands (sl. rubbed, front joint starting to split). Good copy.
First edition of a historical calendar of religious persons (fathers, martyrs, saints) who lived in the Low Countries, compiled by the prolific historian Miraeus (1573-1640). Engraved title-vignette. Copy without the additional Index quire Eee found in a number of copies.
Ref. STCV 6597017. - De Ridder (Le Mire) 48.
Joined: Hugo, Herman, S.J. - Sitio de Breda rendida a las armas del Rey Don Phelipe IV., a la virtud de la Infante Doña Isabel, al valor del Marques Ambr. Spinola [trsl. from the Latin Emanuel Suyero]. Antwerp, Plantin Press (B. Moretus), 1627. Folio: [8]-133-[2-1 bl.] pp. (toned, bottom dampstained with mouldy spots, occ. marg. worming touching a plate). Contemp. overl. vellum, flat spine titled in ink. Only ed. of the Spanish trsl. (Latin 1626) of the account of the Siege of Breda by the Jesuit scholar Herman Hugo (1588-1629). Engr. ill.: 5 double-page and 6 full-page plates, 2 ill. in text, splendid title by Cornelis Galle after P.P. Rubens. Ref. DBS IV:520:7. - Peeters-Fontainas 609. - Palau 116.733. - Judson/VdVelde 55. - STCV. - Not in Goldsmith (BL). Prov. Armorial collector’s stamp. (2 vol.)