Sale: 348 / Rare Books, Nov. 17./18. 2008 in Hamburg Lot 682

 
Niederlande - Guicciardini, L., Description, 1567.


682
Niederlande
Guicciardini, L., Description, 1567.
Estimate:
€ 1,500 / $ 1,620
Sold:
€ 1,560 / $ 1,684

(incl. surcharge)
Niederlande. - Guicciardini, L., Description de tout le Païs Bas autrement dict la Germanie inferieure, ou Bas-Allemagne. With 1 fullpage armorial woodcut and 1 fullpage woodcut portrait, 15 double page woodcuts (among them 4 maps) and 1 folding copper map. Antwerp, G. Silvius 1567. Late half calf. Small folio. 12 ll., 389 (recte 405) pp., 13 ll.
Adams G 1537. - Tiele 421. - Funck p. 325. - Graesse III, 178. - Not in BM STC. - First French translation of the Italian orig. edition, published the same year. - Classic description of the Netherlands and Belgium. - The double page woodcuts show views of Amsterdam, Antwerp, Bruge, Brussels, Gent, s'Hertogenbosch, Löwen, Lüttich, Mecheln, Ypern and others. The map shows Flanders, the Frisian coast, Brabant and Northern France between Flanders and Brabant. - Title, crest and portrait framed by ornamental woodcut borders. - Without the copper plate L'Hotel de ville d'Anvers, which often lacks according to Tiele - First and last ll. somewhat stained. Binding scraped, outer joints torn. Inside fine copy.
First French translation of the Italian orig. editionof the classic description of the Netherlands and Belgium. With views of numerous cities. With 1 fullpage armorial woodcut and 1 fullpage woodcut portrait, 15 double page woodcuts (among them 4 maps) and 1 folding copper map. Late half calf. Without the copper plate L'Hotel de ville d'Anvers. - First and last ll. somewhat stained. Binding scraped, outer joints torn. Inside fine copy.




682
Niederlande
Guicciardini, L., Description, 1567.
Estimate:
€ 1,500 / $ 1,620
Sold:
€ 1,560 / $ 1,684

(incl. surcharge)