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995 - WAUTERS, Alphonse *The Delights of Belgium* [or *A Historical, Picturesque, and Monumental Description of This Kingdom* [...]. Illustrated with a map and one hundred plates [...]]. Brussels: Printed by the Society of Fine Arts, 1844. In-8° (some foxing). Red half-shagreen from the period, percaline covers, smooth spine (spine rubbed, corners worn). First edition. Despite the title’s statement, the number of plates varies between 102 and approximately 120 plates by Lauters, Stroobant, Bielski, Ghémar, etc. Our copy includes 1 frontispiece and 111 lithographic plates (1 frontispiece) in black on a tinted background, a fold-out map of Brussels, and 1 separately enhanced fold-out map (map of Belgium in 1843). Ref. Van der Marck 192. — Cf. Bibl. nat. IV:321 (Muquardt, 1845).
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WAUTERS, Alphonse *The Delights of Belgium* [or *A Historical, Picturesque, and Monumental Description of This Kingdom* [...]. Illustrated with a map and one hundred plates [...]]. Brussels: Printed by the Society of Fine Arts, 1844. In-8° (some foxing). Red half-shagreen from the period, percaline covers, smooth spine (spine rubbed, corners worn). First edition. Despite the title’s statement, the number of plates varies between 102 and approximately 120 plates by Lauters, Stroobant, Bielski, Ghémar, etc. Our copy includes 1 frontispiece and 111 lithographic plates (1 frontispiece) in black on a tinted background, a fold-out map of Brussels, and 1 separately enhanced fold-out map (map of Belgium in 1843). Ref. Van der Marck 192. — Cf. Bibl. nat. IV:321 (Muquardt, 1845).
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