Jean BERTHOLET
Histoire de l'institution de la Fête-Dieu, avec La vie des bienheureuses Julienne et Eve, suivie de l'Abrégé Historique de l'Institution des Illustres Confrairies
Chez Jean-Antoine Gerlach|A Liège 1781|19 x 26 cm|relié
New edition. L'Abrégé historique has its own title page. A portrait of Jacobus Josephus Baro de Hubens engraved by Godin, placed in the foreword of L'Abrégé historique and 17 beautiful baroque engraved figures by Klauber including an allegorical frontispiece which make this edition very handsome.
Contemporary half sheep binding. Smooth spine decorated with fillets. Beige calf title label. Board papers replaced with similar paper, endpapers renewed with paper similar to the original. A tear with loss to the upper joint at head. Brown dampstain traces in margin of the first 3 leaves, same in upper margin pp49 to 56, and 108 to 120, 149 to 156; 171 to 186 in outer margin, and dampstain tra
Contemporary half sheep binding. Smooth spine decorated with fillets. Beige calf title label. Board papers replaced with similar paper, endpapers renewed with paper similar to the original. A tear with loss to the upper joint at head. Brown dampstain traces in margin of the first 3 leaves, same in upper margin pp49 to 56, and 108 to 120, 149 to 156; 171 to 186 in outer margin, and dampstain tra
€350