Author: VANDEN HECKE Guillaume - Cornille AERTSSENS - De SAMBLANX: (relieur ) :
Title: Rapport faict par le Seigneur Guillaume vanden Hecke Tresorier, & maistre Cornille Aertssens Secretaire de la ville de Bruxelles, à Messieurs du Magistrat d'icelle ville le IXe d'Apvril , & reiteré le Xe. d'icelluy mois l'an XVc.LXXIX en assemblee des Estats generaux en Anvers. Contenant tout ce que lesdicts deputez ont besoigné en Haynault & Arthois.....
Description: .: 16. S.l. ( Antwerpen ), par Guillaume Sylvius, Imprimeur du Roy, 1579, small in-4°, 18,5 cm, 31 pp + (1)(bl.) ( complete), bound in jansenist full red morocco binding, all edges gilt, double gilt fillet on the board edges, marbled endpapers, 18th century (?) decorated wrapper preserved. Very fine binding signed and dated by Ch. De Samblanx - 1915. The report is about an attempt supported by Orange to keep the provinces of Hainault and Artois in the Union. See Bibliotheca Belgica vol. 3 pp. 410-411. Also Belgica Typographica item 4614. This publication is the last one printed in Antwerp by Silvius. He left for Leiden but died already one year later. Rare publication is a superb bibliophile binding by the belgian master binder Ch. de Samblanx, perfectly preserved. .

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