GHESQUIERE [GHESQUIERUS] DE RAEMDONK Joseph-Hippolyte & SMET [SMETIUS] Cornelius
Reference : H98659
(1783)
Bruxellis [Brussel], typis Matthaei Lemaire 1783-1789 Volumes 1 to 5 of this important hagiographical work regarding Belgium (due to the French Revolution, the publication was interrupted and so the 6th and last volume was published years later, in 1794, and is not included in this offered series), first and original 1783-1789-edition, xxxviii,752 + [8],xxxi,683 + xxxviii,736 + xxvii,728 + xvi,816 pp., illustrated with 22 engraved plates out-of-text (some of which are signed by P.B. Bouttats, C.J. Bisschop & H.Cause, etc., cfr. infra) and with some engravings in text, 27cm., firm uniform 19th cy. hardcover bindings (spines in brown leather with gilt lettering, corners and edges with some wear), marbled endpapers, small stamp on recto and verso of t.p., some occasional foxing (text always well readable), text in Latin, cfr. De Backer-Sommervogel III 1372-1374 no.16, weight: 11 kg., [Illustrations: Volume I: fac-simile regarding S. Servatius, folding map, plate regarding S. Remigius // Volume II: plan of an abbey and one other engraving related to S.Medard, scene related to S. Wulfilaicus, large folding geneaological table related to Dagobertus I, portrait of Petrus Boschius, 2 plates related to S. Gaugericus, portrait of Joannes Bollandus, view on the S.Bavo cathedral in Ghent // Volume III: portrait of Joannes Stiltingus // Volume IV: S.Odilia and S.Leudegar (folding plate), S. Mumolen, Daniel Papebrochus (folding plate) // Volume V: fac-simile document regarding S. Begga (folding), portrait of Joannes Pinius, portrait of Guilielmus Cuperus, S. Bertinus, fac-simile regarding S.Gudila (folding plate)], H98659
GHESQUIERE [GHESQUIERUS] DE RAEMDONK Joseph-Hippolyte & THYSIUS Isfridus O.Praem. & SMET [SMETIUS] Cornelius
Reference : H102909
(1783)
Bruxellis [Brussel], typis Matthaei Lemaire 1783-1789-1794 Complete series of 6 volumes of this important hagiographical work regarding Belgium, first and original 1783-1794-edition, xxxviii,752 + [8],xxxi,683 + xxxviii,736 + xxvii,728 + xvi,816 + [8],xx,790 pp., illustrated with 26 engraved plates out-of-text (some of which are signed by P.B. Bouttats, C.J. Bisschop & H.Cause, etc., cfr. infra) and with some engravings in text, 27cm., uniform 19th cy. hardcover bindings (spines in vellum, corners and edges with some wear), gilt blind-stamped ex-libris of "P.F. Joannes Bocquet ST.M." on spine, library stamp on t.p., very few occasional foxing, text in Latin, cfr. De Backer-Sommervogel III 1372-1374 no.16, good condition, weight: 13kg., [Illustrations: Volume I: fac-simile regarding S. Servatius, folding map, plate regarding S. Remigius // Volume II: plan of an abbey and one other engraving related to S.Medard, scene related to S. Wulfilaicus, large folding geneaological table related to Dagobertus I, portrait of Petrus Boschius, 2 plates related to S. Gaugericus, portrait of Joannes Bollandus, view on the S.Bavo cathedral in Ghent // Volume III: portrait of Joannes Stiltingus // Volume IV: S.Odilia and S.Leudegar (folding plate), S. Mumolen, Daniel Papebrochus (folding plate) // Volume V: fac-simile document regarding S. Begga (folding), portrait of Joannes Pinius, portrait of Guilielmus Cuperus, S. Bertinus, fac-simile regarding S.Gudila (folding plate) // Volume 6: portrait of Pius VI, portrait of (?), one plate related to S. Alciacus & one folding plate regarding the county of Flanders // Due to the French Revolution, the publication (1783-1789) was interrupted and so the 6th and last volume was published years later, in 1794. Content of the 6th volume, by Ghesquiere & Thysius: "Tomus VI complectens Acta Sanctorum Belgii, qui a seculi octavi initio usque ad annum circiter DCCXXIX ad Superos migrarunt"], H102909