Notitia Marchionatus Sacri Romani Imperij hoc est urbis et agri Antverpiensis [...].

Folio: [6 incl. front.]-504-[4] pp., 73 pls (engr. title sl. frayed; some foxing, dampstains, pls browned, marg. tears).

Cont. calf, gilt spine on 6 raised bands, red sp. edges (sm. def. at head, sl. rubbed, a few scratches). Good copy.

First edition of this important topographical work on the marquisate of Antwerp by J. Le Roy (1633-1719). Engr. ills: title by A. van Diepenbeeck, 73 plates outside collation (some folding and double-paged): 3 maps, 2 city plans, 13 ills of tombs, etc. and 67 views (of which 24 sm. printed 2 by 2 on 1 leaf) showing, i.a. Antwerp cathedral, St Michael's Abbey, views of Berchem (e.g. "praetorium de Berchem"), Wijneghem, Schilde, Hoboken, Hemiksem, Lier, Westmalle, Kleidaal, Tongerlo, Turnhout, Corsendonk, etc., and c. 150 fig. in text. Ref. BB III-831/838. - STCV.