Author: Meyere, I. (Ed.)
Title: (Annales sive Historiae rerum Belgicarum, a diversis auctoribus ad haec nostra temporo conscriptae deductaeq(ue): & in duos tomos distinctae. Tomus I: Flandricorum Annalium, autore Iacobo Meyero Baliolano (Jacques de Meyere or De Meyer)). Tomus II: Rerum maxime memorabilium in Brabantia, Flandria, Hollandia, Selandia. Autoribus Adriano Barlando, Gerhardo Geldenhavrio, Iacobo Marchantio, Ludovico Guicciardino, Philippo Galileo, Gerhardo Candido.
Description: Francofurti ad Moenum (Frankfurt a/M), apud Georgium Corvinum, impensis Sigismundi Feyrabendt (Feyerabend), 1580 2 vols. in 1 binding. Folio (36x23 cm). 18th century full calf, spine with ribbons, gilt in compartments (top spine dam.; tear top first hinge); (endpapers renewed). Tomus I: Flandricorum Annalium Liber I-XVII. 6 (of 8: title missing), 427, (1: blank), (xviii: 'Index', (ii: with large printer's mark (15x14 cm)pp. With woodcut on first page and large woodcut headpiece. - First quire inner- and lower margins repaired; 1 leaf (287-288) margins partly repaired. - Tomus II: Rerum maxime memorabilium in Brabantia, Flandria,.... 187, (1:blank) pp. Including nice title with large woodcut-border (small hole, not affecting the woodcut, restored). - Last quire (6 leaves) seriously waterstained. - For both volumes: old annotations and old underlinings in ink; margins of 3 leaves clumsy repaired; small brown spots in places; paper partly age-toned, some leaves with marginal waterstain. - Old ownership inscription on first leave and label of Albert Spitaels. - First woodcut-title missing, but otherwise an acceptable copy of a rare 1580 edition, one of the 5 editions held by 21 WorldCat members worldwide. Old inscription on first endpaper: "cette dition est des plus rares et recherche par rapport au tome 2nd qui fait suite".. Gewicht/Weight: 2800 grs.

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