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LODOVICO GUICCIARDINI (1521-1589)
Omnium Belgii, sive inferioris Germaniae, regionum descriptio. Translated by Reinier Telle. Arnhem: Jan Janssen, 1616. Oblong 4° (171 x 247mm). Woodcut publisher's device on title. Full-page engraved illustration of armorials and 106 full-page engraved maps and views, 2 loosely-inserted trimmed views from [?]another edition, woodcut head- and tailpieces and initials. (Some light browning or dampstaining, occasional minor holes, tears or worming on margins or text, Mm2 torn on text, 3V4 neatly repaired, one additional view torn with loss.) Contemporary vellum, yapp fore-edges, lettered in manuscript on the spine, red edges (covers a little marked and bowed, endpapers neatly repaired).
Guicciardini's work was originally published in Italian as Descrittione ... di tutti i Paesi-Bassi (Antwerp: 1567), and was reissued frequently over the following years in both Italian and French. The first Latin edition was published in 1613 in Telle's translation, which Brunet describes as 'bien écrit, et de plus contient des additions importantes qui le rendent préférable au texte original'. Cf. Brunet II, col.1806 (first Latin edition).
Omnium Belgii, sive inferioris Germaniae, regionum descriptio. Translated by Reinier Telle. Arnhem: Jan Janssen, 1616. Oblong 4° (171 x 247mm). Woodcut publisher's device on title. Full-page engraved illustration of armorials and 106 full-page engraved maps and views, 2 loosely-inserted trimmed views from [?]another edition, woodcut head- and tailpieces and initials. (Some light browning or dampstaining, occasional minor holes, tears or worming on margins or text, Mm2 torn on text, 3V4 neatly repaired, one additional view torn with loss.) Contemporary vellum, yapp fore-edges, lettered in manuscript on the spine, red edges (covers a little marked and bowed, endpapers neatly repaired).
Guicciardini's work was originally published in Italian as Descrittione ... di tutti i Paesi-Bassi (Antwerp: 1567), and was reissued frequently over the following years in both Italian and French. The first Latin edition was published in 1613 in Telle's translation, which Brunet describes as 'bien écrit, et de plus contient des additions importantes qui le rendent préférable au texte original'. Cf. Brunet II, col.1806 (first Latin edition).
Provenance
Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 27 June 1984, lot 34 (to Dreesmann).
Dr Anton C.R. Dreesmann (inventory no. Y-39).
Dr Anton C.R. Dreesmann (inventory no. Y-39).
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