Belgium universum. Seu Omnium inferioris Germaniae regionum accurata descriptio. Tabulis geographicis, tam provinciarum quam urbium praecipuarum; nec non & additamentis nonnullis plurimum aucta & illustrata.

Folio: [8 incl. engr. title and coat of arms]-120-[11]-120/231 [= 204]-111 [=117] pp., 96 (of 98) pl. (title partly pasted to front flyl. by left side, ms. mention crossed out on title, paper sl. brown., central tear without lack to Helmond, lack of paper touching the picture to Roermond, marg. lack of paper to Zwolle).

Contemp. vellum (sl. stained), flat spine titled in ink (faded), spr. edges. Good copy.

Janssonius' ed. with similar text to the Blaeu ed. of 1634, in a translation by Renier Telle (1578-1618) after the Italian Plantin ed. of 1588. Famous description of the Low Countries (1st part) and of the Northern Netherland (2nd part), 1st published in Italian in 1567. Engr. ill.: title, coat of arms of the 17 Provinces and 96 single or double pl. (of 98 : lacking 25: Rheinberg and 27: Wachtendonk), picturing maps of the Netherlands, Brabant, etc. or city plans of Louvain, Brussels, Antwerp (4 views on buildings), Mechelen, Ghent, Oostende, Dunkerque, Lille, Douai, Mons, Namur, Liège, Luxemburg... and Arnhem, Zaltbommel, Haarlem, Dordrecht, Amsterdam (4 views on buildings), Gouda, Hoorn, Gorinchem, The Hague, Middelburg, Zwolle, Groningen, etc. Ref. Guicciardini illustratus 22. - STCN. - COPAC.