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Lot 49: LE ROY, JACQUES.

Est: £3,000 GBP - £4,000 GBPSold:
Sotheby'sLondon, United KingdomNovember 04, 2010

Item Overview

Description

LE ROY, JACQUES. CASTELLA & PRAETORIA NOBILIUM BRABANTIAE. LEIDEN: P. VANDER AA, 1699, 4 PARTS, TEXT IN LATIN, FRENCH AND DUTCH, HALF-TITLE, ENGRAVED ADDITIONAL TITLE, DEDICATION, 6 DOUBLE-PAGE AND/OR FOLDING MAPS AND PLANS, AND 207 VIEWS (INCLUDING 13 DOUBLE-PAGE AND A NUMBER SINGLE-PAGE), 4PP. (SIG. KK) "CATALOGUS LIBRORUM" BOUND AT END Ibid. L'Erection de toutes les terres, seigneuries & familles titrees du Brabant. Leiden: P. vander Aa, 1699, half-title, engraved dedication and 7 views, lacking map (probably never present) 2 works in one volume, folio (415 x 277mm.), contemporary calf, worn

Artist or Maker

Provenance

Anne Therese. Ph: d'Yve, bookplate; "This book was bought of M. Verbyste at Bruxelles June 1840", inscription above bookplate; "Eleonora, Adelaide, Sophia, Leopoldina Kilvers 1840, née de Chievre", inscription on title

Notes

These two works are often found together. The four parts to the first work are Louvain, Brussels, Antwerp and Bois-Leduc.

Auction Details

Travel, Atlases, Maps and Natural History

by
Sotheby's
November 04, 2010, 12:00 PM GMT

34-35 New Bond Street, London, LDN, W1A 2AA, UK