Bibliotheca Belgica.

ANDRÉ, Valère

Verlag: Jacob Zegers, 1643

Beschreibung

Small 4to. pp. (xiv) 900. Roman letter, occasional Italic. T-p in red and black with printer s device; full-page engraving by Pierre Rucholle to verso with arms of F.H. van Kinschot; decorated initials, head- and tailpieces. Light age browning, faint water stains to some margins, occasional spotting, small hole touching a few letters at pp. 15-16. A very good, well-margined copy in C17 polished calf over pasteboards, lacking ties, blind-tooled to a triple-ruled panel design, second border with interlacing pointillé and palmettes, spine in five compartments, blind-tooled triple-ruled borders to each, raised double bands, a couple of wormholes at head and foot, joints cracked. Early autograph Doncker and 12031 to recto and verso of fly respectively, ex-libris Coenobii S Aug Lovani 1650 to upper margin of t-p, the odd early annotation. Very good copy of the second and much augmented edition of Valère André s Bibliotheca Belgica , first published in 1623. André (or Valerius Andreas or Walter Driessens, 1588-1650) was a scholar of antiquities, Hebrew studies and law, and professor at Leuven. His Bibliotheca Belgica is a monumental bio-bibliography of Dutch and Belgian authors in the arts, sciences and letters and their works in Latin, French and Flemish (these last often listed with Latinised titles). Prefaced by a topographical delineation of Belgium and an index of names absent in the first edition, it is a fundamental source for the bibliographic history of the early modern Low Countries, and the basis for Jean-François Foppens s Bibliotheca Belgica (1739). USTC 1004392; Brunet I, 269; Besterman 274. L2826. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers L2826

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Bibliotheca Belgica.

Verlag: Jacob Zegers

Erscheinungsdatum: 1643

Einband: Soft cover

Zustand: Good