[Plantin Press - Low Countries] GUICCIARDINI, Lodovico Description de touts les Pais-Bas, autrement appellés la Germanie inférieure, ou Basse Allemagne [...]. Antwerp, Chr. Plantin, Folio: [24]-495-[pp. (some spotting & browning, tiny wormhole or -track in blank margin of first & last few quires, light damp stain at first few quires, occ. minor staining, bound a bit tight). 20th-c. binding "à l'ancienne": blind-ruled calf, gilt-orn. spine with raised bands, old laid paper endpapers (sl. rubbed, joints rubbed). Good copy. Plantin's French edition of a monument in the history of the Low Countries: the eloquent description of its 16th-c. towns by the Italian resident author Guicciardini (1521-1589). Complete with an allegorical front. representing "Belgia", engr. title (version B), border with coat of arms of the Provinces with in the centre a verse of Sallust, allegorical border of arts & sciences with in the middle a verse of Virgil and maps, city plans & views of Flanders (Brussels, Leuven, Antwerp, Lier, Mechelen, Ghent, Bruges, etc.), the Netherlands (Nijmegen, Roermond, Arnhem, Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Utrecht, etc.) and Northern France (Lille, Douai, Tournai, Artois, Arras, Saint-Omer). ref. Guicc. Illustr. p. (variant 2). - Voet (Plantin Press) - Sorgeloos 242bis. Prov. "des Celestins de Paris" (ms. entry on title). - Sm. stamp on front pastedown.
[Plantin Press - Low Countries] GUICCIARDINI, Lodovico Description de touts les Pais-Bas, autrement appellés la Germanie inférieure, ou Basse Allemagne [...]. Antwerp, Chr. Plantin, Folio: [24]-495-[pp. (some spotting & browning, tiny wormhole or -track in blank margin of first & last few quires, light damp stain at first few quires, occ. minor staining, bound a bit tight). 20th-c. binding "à l'ancienne": blind-ruled calf, gilt-orn. spine with raised bands, old laid paper endpapers (sl. rubbed, joints rubbed). Good copy. Plantin's French edition of a monument in the history of the Low Countries: the eloquent description of its 16th-c. towns by the Italian resident author Guicciardini (1521-1589). Complete with an allegorical front. representing "Belgia", engr. title (version B), border with coat of arms of the Provinces with in the centre a verse of Sallust, allegorical border of arts & sciences with in the middle a verse of Virgil and maps, city plans & views of Flanders (Brussels, Leuven, Antwerp, Lier, Mechelen, Ghent, Bruges, etc.), the Netherlands (Nijmegen, Roermond, Arnhem, Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Utrecht, etc.) and Northern France (Lille, Douai, Tournai, Artois, Arras, Saint-Omer). ref. Guicc. Illustr. p. (variant 2). - Voet (Plantin Press) - Sorgeloos 242bis. Prov. "des Celestins de Paris" (ms. entry on title). - Sm. stamp on front pastedown.
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