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FEYERABEND, Sigmund e.a.

Annales, sive Historiae rerum Belgicarum

Frankfurt
Sigismund Feyerabend
1580

€180 - €300

2 parts in 1 vol. in-folio (37,5 x 23 cm), [8]-427[-1 bl.]-[19-1 bl.], 172 (on 187) pp, each part with a beautiful elaborate allegorical woodcut border signed I A (Jost Amman). Woodcut head pieces, initials and Feyerabend publisher's mark signed T S (Tobias Stimmer) at end part I. Lacking pp. 173-187 of the second part, some pale marginal damp-staining. Contemporary limp vellum binding, blue edges, morocco library label at the bottom of the spine

"First edition of this splendid collection edited by the Frankfurt publisher Feyerabend (1528-1590) of the leading histories of the Low Countries: Jacobus MEYERUS (Pt I, Flanders), H. BARLANDUS (II, Brabant), G. Geldenhouwer (II, Holland), Jac. Marchantius (II, Flanders), L. Guicciardini (II, in Latin) Provenance: Bibliotheca Ambrosiana: large heraldic bookplate (Ambrosius Comes a Virmont et Nersen) on paste-down and place label on spine, ms. ex libris on first title page. Ref. VD-16 F-897 ; Adams B-470bis ; Machiels F-91"

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