GUYSE Jacques de :

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GUYSE Jacques de :
Illustrations of the Gaulle Belgium, antiquities of the country of Haynau, and of the grad cite of Belgians : a present dicte Bavay, from which proceed the chaussees of Brunehault. And of several princes... until the Duke Philippes de Bourgongne, last deceased. Three volumes bound in one. In-folio full old red morocco, cold framing, in the center of each of the boards a gold iron with the initial V decorated with a plant composition, some traces of rubbing, counterpanes with a roulette, spine with 6 nerves, gold lettering, three gilt edges, binding signed Dewatines. Printed in Paris by Galliot Du Pré 1531-1532, bookseller and publisher François Regnault. Princeps edition of this chronicle of Hainaut by Jacques de Guyse. Complete of the three volumes. The title pages of the first two volumes in a woodcut column frame in black and red, black only for the third volume. Printed in gothic letters, two columns of 52 lines, initials, woodcuts of the publisher and the printer. 4 wood engravings including 3 full-page frontispieces in the first and third volumes, the first repeated once on both sides of the table, and one in-text at the end of the prologue of Volume III. Few stains on the third volume otherwise very fresh inside. Written in Latin and dedicated to Count Albert I of Hainaut, Jacques de Guyse's voluminous history of Hainaut fills a gap: other regions had their histories but Hainaut did not. The first abridgement of the translation into French, which contrary to what is announced in the first volume and the title only goes up to 1258, whereas the reign of Philippe Le Bon announced begins in 1419.
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