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989 - LE ROY, Jacques *The Great Secular Theater of the Duchy of Brabant*. [...]. To which has been added the *Topographical and Historical Description of Walloon Brabant* [...]. The Hague, Chr. Van Lom 1730 In-f°: [4]-64-[4]-151-[13] pp.; 73 ill. (slightly browned, sporadic foxing, last plate of Book III trimmed flush with the top margin). Marbled calfskin of the period, spine with raised bands and gilt fleurons with a red title label, edges mottled with red (rubbed, covers heavily flaked, head cap missing, corners blunted, old restorations at the bottom of the covers and at the corners). The only French edition of the compilation of the 1692 "Topographia historica Gallo-Brabantiae" and the "Castella & praetoria nobilium Brabantiae, coenobiaque celebriora" from 1699, entirely reworked to exclude the chapters, passages, and plates concerning the ecclesiastical history of Brabant. Superb large-scale copperplate illustrations including 1 map, 4 heraldic plates, 1 plate of seals, and 67 plates containing 188 subjects: views of castles with the owners’ coats of arms, plans and perspectives of the cities of Leuven, Brussels, Antwerp, and 's-Hertogenbosch; a few in-text illustrations. Title page in red and black adorned with a printer’s mark; title page for Vol. II in black adorned with a fleur-de-lis. Indexes of family names and place names, and errata. Ref. BB III:854–857. – STCN. Provenance: Ex-libris removed from the inside back cover.
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LE ROY, Jacques *The Great Secular Theater of the Duchy of Brabant*. [...]. To which has been added the *Topographical and Historical Description of Walloon Brabant* [...]. The Hague, Chr. Van Lom 1730 In-f°: [4]-64-[4]-151-[13] pp.; 73 ill. (slightly browned, sporadic foxing, last plate of Book III trimmed flush with the top margin). Marbled calfskin of the period, spine with raised bands and gilt fleurons with a red title label, edges mottled with red (rubbed, covers heavily flaked, head cap missing, corners blunted, old restorations at the bottom of the covers and at the corners). The only French edition of the compilation of the 1692 "Topographia historica Gallo-Brabantiae" and the "Castella & praetoria nobilium Brabantiae, coenobiaque celebriora" from 1699, entirely reworked to exclude the chapters, passages, and plates concerning the ecclesiastical history of Brabant. Superb large-scale copperplate illustrations including 1 map, 4 heraldic plates, 1 plate of seals, and 67 plates containing 188 subjects: views of castles with the owners’ coats of arms, plans and perspectives of the cities of Leuven, Brussels, Antwerp, and 's-Hertogenbosch; a few in-text illustrations. Title page in red and black adorned with a printer’s mark; title page for Vol. II in black adorned with a fleur-de-lis. Indexes of family names and place names, and errata. Ref. BB III:854–857. – STCN. Provenance: Ex-libris removed from the inside back cover.
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