Le Grand Théâtre sacré - profane du Duché de Brabant.... Lot 57

Le Grand Théâtre sacré [- profane] du Duché de Brabant. 4 vol., large folio (sm. defects). Contemp. mottled calf, gilt decorated covers and spines with 7 bands, red edges (1 cover moulded, corners bumped, sm. defects). Two uniformly bound chorographic works on the Archbishoprics of Antwerp, Mechelen, 's-Hertogenbosch and Brabant Wallon. 1. Le Grand Theatre sacré du Duché de Brabant [...]. The Hague, G. Block, 1734. 4 parts in 3 vol.: [6]-1/176, [2]-177/394-40, [2]-212-[2]-134-14 pp. (a few unidentified pl. appear to be missing, although the total number exceeds the usual 250 engr. ff.). 2nd French ed. (1st Fr.: Van Lom, 1729), an anonymous redesign of the "Groot Kerkelyk toneel" (1st Dutch ed.: 1727) that was wrongly attributed to Jacques le Roy. Abundantly illustrated with more than 250 engr. single, double or fold-out pages by Fr. Harrewijn, J.B. Jongelinx and P.B. Bouttats, a.o. figuring funerary monuments and tombstones, coats of arms, views of abbeys, churches, castles and convents, portraits of Bishops and Archbishops, 2 maps (archbishopric of Malines and diocese of Antwerp) and in-text illustrations. - 2. Le Roy, Jacques - Le Grand Théâtre profane [...]. The Hague, C. Van Lom, 1730. 2 parts in 1 vol.: [4]-64-[4]-151-[12] pp. (map of Brabant missing). Only French and entirely reworked ed. of the compilation of the "Topographia historica Gallo-Brabantiae" of 1692 and the "Castella & Praetoria Nobilium Brabantiae" of 1699. With 187 (of 188) engr., usually with 3 on a leaf, figuring plans and perspectives of the cities of Leuven, Brussels, Antwerp and 's-Hertogenbosch, and many castles, also illustrated with the coats of arms of the cities of Brabant (3 pl.), a heraldic pl., seals (1 pl.) and 5 sm. in-text ill. Ref. BB V:330-331 (Théâtre sacré). - BB III:854-857 (Théâtre profane). Prov. "Ferd. d'Udekem. Acquis Aug. Verbeyst au mois de juillet 1839 trois vol." (ms. entry). controleer ev. BB V: 330-331. zie veld opmerkingen