Le Roy, Jacques
Castella et praetoria nobilium Brabantiae, coenobiaque celebriora
£1,890
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs
Auction: 19 June 2024 from 10:00 BST
Description
ad vivum delineata, in quatuor partes divisa. [Bound with:] L'Erection de toutes les terres, seigneuries et familles titrées du Brabant, prouvée par des extraits des lettres patentes, tirez des originaux. Leiden: Pieter vander Aa, 1699.
2 works in 1 volume, folio (42 x 28cm), modern half morocco gilt, top edge dyed red.
Castella et Praetoria: [6] 142 ff., half-title, engraved allegorical additional title-page, letterpress title-page with engraved vignette, engraved dedication leaf, 6 engraved folding maps (including a duplicate of the general map ‘Novissima et accuratissimia Brabantiae ducatus tabula’, meant to be bound in the following work; one map at ff. 73-4 counted in foliation, the rest not counted), 4 letterpress section-titles (unfoliated but counted in register), text-leaves printed on rectos only, nearly all containing 2 engraved vignette views (the remainder containing one view, a few of which full-page), 15 further double-page or folding engraved plates (mainly views, one plan; all counted in foliation). Damp-staining to prelims (including first 2 maps), faint tide-mark to head of gutter of first 15 or so leaves, folding view at ff. 77-8 with small repair verso, ff. 87-8 (containing a double-page view) misbound between ff. 81-2 (f. 82 misnumbered 81).
L'Erection de toutes les terres: [8] 107 [1] pp., half-title, engraved vignette to title-page, engraved vignette views in text.
Footnote
Early edition of Le Roy's spectacular illustrated survey of the castles, manor houses, abbeys and monasteries of the province of Brabant, in four parts, concerning Louvain, Brussels, Antwerp and Bois-Le-Duc ('s-Hertogenbosch) respectively, and here bound as usual with the first edition of a supplementary work, L'Erection de toutes les terres. Castella et praetoria was first published in 1694.