27th Jan, 2022 11:00

Books & Works on Paper including Contents from the Estate of Paul Gallico
 
  Lot 12
 

D'oudegherst (Pierre) Les Chroniques et Annales de Flandres

D'oudegherst (Pierre)

Les Chroniques et Annales de Flandres…, woodcut printer’s device on title, decorated initials, errata with underlining, light browning, light dampstaining to a few leaves, a few early marginal notes, modern paper boards, worn, [Voet (Plantin Press) 1841; not In Adams], 4to, J. Withagen for Christoph Plantin, Antwerp,1571.

*** Only edition of this history of the County of Flanders up to 1476 by Pierre d'Oudegherst (Lille 1540-Madrid 1592), Flemish lawyer and historian, at one time in the service of Emperor Maximilian II, to whom the work is dedicated. The ‘Biographie Nationale’ attributes part of the text to his father Jean d'Oudegherst (d. 1559). Plantin was working on his famous Biblia Polyglotta and had a number of printing tasks done by his colleague Jan (Ver)Withagen.

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