Antonius Sanderus (1586-1664)

Lot 58
30.07.2020 00:00UTC +00:00
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£ 7 500
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Lot 58 | Antonius Sanderus (1586-1664)
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£ 6 000 – 9 000
SANDERUS, Antonius (1586-1664). Flandria illustrata, sive provinciae ac comitatus hujus descriptio. Cologne [Amsterdam]: C. van Egmondt & Comp. [J. & C. Blaeu], 1641-44.

First edition, complete, of a monumental work on the history and topography of Flanders, extensively illustrated with panoramic town views, maps, portraits, noble estates, and architectural landmarks. It was printed in an edition of 500 copies only, of which a number were destroyed by fire at the Blaeu workshop in 1672. Hondius was its original publisher (several maps retain his name on imprint slips), but he sold his rights to the Blaeus in 1641 along with the rest of his business, and it was the Blaeus who issued it under a false imprint of Cologne to evade Catholic censors in the Spanish Netherlands. The digitised copy at Ghent has the same collation, but the half-titles show variants, with the present copy having no vol. number in vol. 1 and with the ‘Argumentum operis’ printed on its verso, whereas it is printed on the verso of vol. II half-title in the Ghent copy. Bib. Belgica, V, 28-35; Brunet V, 121.
 
2 volumes, folio (472 x 312mm). Half-title and engraved title in each volume, c. 323 engraved maps, plans, town views, portraits, etc., of which 39 are double-page, one woodcut text armorial, woodcut initials and head- and tailpieces, several correction slips pasted in, engr. plate on II: p.432 printed upside down, retaining uncancelled i2 in second addendum, all leaves on guard (some browning and spotting, occasional marginal repairs, a few sheets mounted, marginal repairs in a few leaves [mostly at beginning of vol. 2], small paper flaw in 6Q2 with loss of a few letters, eng. title of vol. 2 mounted and with minor loss at lower corner). Contemporary mottled calf, gilt spine (spines differently tooled, somewhat worn and repaired). Provenance: Louis Lambert (1886-1957, Doctor of Pharmacology, Inspector General of Maritime Fishing; 20th-century bookplate).
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