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FOULLON, Jean Erard, S.J.

Historia Leodiensis, per episcoporum et principum seriem digesta, ab origine populi usque ad Ferdinandi Bavari tempora

Liège
E. Kints
1735-37

€160 - €240

6 parts in 3 vol. in-folio, 22]-476 [= 480]-[13-1 bl.], [12]-282 (= 478)-[8], [8]-512-[9] p, engr. vignettes & coats of arms in the text, portrait missing. Cont. vellum (minor traces of damage, small area of one back cover stripped bare, but a good copy)

The posthumously published work by the Liège-born Johannes Foullon (1609-68), whose work was edited from the manuscript by D. de Louvrex and Baron de Crassier according to a preface. The work is sumptuously printed, an engraved coat of arms opening the chapter on each player in the history of this small principality. Ref. Bibl. Belgica III, 43/44. de Theux 513/14

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