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Lot 1082

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Description de touts les Pays-Bas, autrement appellez la Germanie inférieure, ou Basse Allemagne [...]. Maintenant reveüe, et augmentée plus que de la moitié par le mesme autheur. Avec toutes les cartes géographiques desdicts pays, & plusieurs pourtraicts de villes tirez au naturel [...].

GUICCIARDINI, Lodovico


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Amsterdam, J. Janssonius, 1625

Folio: [8 incl. engr. title]-454-[10] pp.; 94 (of 95) pl. according to the table, two engr. on the same leaf (pl. of Bergues p. 356 missing; dampstaining, very occ. marg. wormholes and foxing, some ff. sl. age-toned or browned, marg. thumbing to some ff., pl. of Cambrai browned, engr. title cut short).

Contemp. mottled calf, gilt orn. spine with raised bands, red spr. edges (head and tail repaired, joints partly split, sl. rubbed).

1st French Janssonius edition (1st Italian ed.: 1567), offering the reader an eloquent description of the 16th-c. towns in the Low Countries by the Italian resident and author Guicciardini (1521-1589). Petrus Montanus updated the French text by François de Belleforest (1530-1583) for the Cornelis Claesz. 1609 edition, here used by Janssonius. With engr. title and 94 pl. reprinted from Blaeu's Latin 1613 edition, incl. maps and town plans of Belgium, the Netherlands and Northern France. All plates mentioned in the "Table des pages" are present, except for the map entitled "Berghe de S.Winoc" (Guicc. 12, pl. 73) which is in fact a view of Dunkirk with Bergues in the background and is rarely present (Touwaide lists 3 copies). Enriched, not listed in the table of plates, with 2 plates ("Nieuwe-Kerck Amsterdam" and "het stat huys Amsterdam de Waegh").
Ref. Guicciardini illustratus 18 (lists 100 pl., but the Table of plates in our copy calls for 96 engr. (on 95 ff. in our copy)). - Tiele 428. - Touwaide 20.
Prov. Jacobus Desmey, Angers (?) (ms. entry dated 1669).

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Description de touts les Pays-Bas, autrement appellez la Germanie inférieure, ou Basse Allemagne [...]. Maintenant reveüe, et augmentée plus que de la moitié par le mesme autheur. Avec toutes les cartes géographiques desdicts pays, & plusieurs pourtraicts de villes tirez au naturel [...].

Lot 1082

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