Le premier volume des illustrations de la Gaulle belgique, antiquitez du pays de Haynnau et de la gra[n]d cite de Belges : a present dicte Bavay dont procedent les chaussees de Brunehault. Et de plusieurs princes q[ui] ont regne et fonde plusieurs villes et citez audit pays et autres choses singulieres et dignes de memoire advenues dura[n]t leurs regnes jusques au duc Philippes de Bourgongne, dernier decede [...].

3 parts in 1 vol., folio: [8]-cxlii [= 141]-[1], lxxxii, [6]-cviii ff. (sl. dampstaining, some (marg.) ink stains, occ. sl. soiling, marg. sm. holes and tears without lack, sm. burn stains on texte ff. Pi and Pii of 3rd part).

18th-c. three-quarter sheep, mod. paper covered boards, ms. mention "Double" and shelfmark on front cover, gilt-orn. spine with raised bands (very rubbed, front joint partly split, head and tail missing).

First edition of the Middle French translation by the Franciscan Jacques de Guise (1340-1399) of the "Annales historiae illustrium principum Hannoniae", and supplementary chronicles. Ill. with 2 full-page woodcuts figuring presentation scene with Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy in part I (repeated twice), a French King in his Parliament in part III, and a large woodcut figuring a copyist in his scriptorium in part III, numerous initials, some criblé, in different sizes. Titles within elaborate woodcut border with name of Galliot du Pré; titles of parts I-II in red and black. Printer's marks of Regnault (part I) and Du Pré (part III). Printed in Gothic type, in 2 col. Copy with ms. marginalia and underlinings.
Ref. BP16 106707 (I-II) & 106973 (III). - Bechtel G-392. - De Troeyer 195 (I). - Mortimer 268. - Renouard, ICP, IV:178 (I-II) & 440 (III). - Pettegree (FB) 24567, 24568, 24570. - STC French, Suppl., 40. - Not in Adams.
Prov. Jesuit College, Douai (old ms. mention). - Public Library of Douai (stamp "Échangé"). - Emmanuel de Hennin de Boussu Walcourt (mod. armorial bookpl.).