ANDRÉ, Valère

ANDRÉ, Valère

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ANDRÉ, Valère

ANDRÉ, Valère. Bibliotheca Belgica
£1,950.00
£1,950.00

Louvain, Jacob Zegers, 1643.

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 pointill é 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 Andr é s Bibliotheca Belgica , first published in 1623. Andr é (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

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