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Best edition of this famous work with over 200 views of the castles, houses and monasteries of the Brabant duchy

ROY, Jacob le.
Castella et prætoria nobilium Brabantiæ, coenobiaque celebriora ad vivum delineata, ærique incisa, in quatuor partes divisa, complectentes agrum Lovaniensem, Bruxellensem, Antwerpiensem, et Sylvæ-Ducensem. Cum brevi eorundem descriptione.

With engraved allegorical title-page, letterpress title-page with the engraved coat of arms of Spain, 3 double-page engraved maps of Brabant (2) and Antwerp (1), 214 engraved and/or etched plates (2 coats of arms and 212 views; 3 folding, 18 double-page, 6 full-page, 3 leaves each with 3 plates, 89 leaves each with 2 plates, and including engravings and etchings by Philibert and Gaspar Bouttats, Lucas Vorsterman and Wenceslaus Hollar), one engraving in text on page 8 of part one.

With engraved allegorical title-page, letterpress title-page with the engraved coat of arms of Spain, 3 double-page engraved maps of Brabant (2) and Antwerp (1), 214 engraved and/or etched plates (2 coats of arms and 212 views; 3 folding, 18 double-page, 6 full-page, 3 leaves each with 3 plates, 89 leaves each with 2 plates, and including engravings and etchings by Philibert and Gaspar Bouttats, Lucas Vorsterman and Wenceslaus Hollar), one engraving in text on page 8 of part one.

With engraved allegorical title-page, letterpress title-page with the engraved coat of arms of Spain, 3 double-page engraved maps of Brabant (2) and Antwerp (1), 214 engraved and/or etched plates (2 coats of arms and 212 views; 3 folding, 18 double-page, 6 full-page, 3 leaves each with 3 plates, 89 leaves each with 2 plates, and including engravings and etchings by Philibert and Gaspar Bouttats, Lucas Vorsterman and Wenceslaus Hollar), one engraving in text on page 8 of part one.

With engraved allegorical title-page, letterpress title-page with the engraved coat of arms of Spain, 3 double-page engraved maps of Brabant (2) and Antwerp (1), 214 engraved and/or etched plates (2 coats of arms and 212 views; 3 folding, 18 double-page, 6 full-page, 3 leaves each with 3 plates, 89 leaves each with 2 plates, and including engravings and etchings by Philibert and Gaspar Bouttats, Lucas Vorsterman and Wenceslaus Hollar), one engraving in text on page 8 of part one.

With engraved allegorical title-page, letterpress title-page with the engraved coat of arms of Spain, 3 double-page engraved maps of Brabant (2) and Antwerp (1), 214 engraved and/or etched plates (2 coats of arms and 212 views; 3 folding, 18 double-page, 6 full-page, 3 leaves each with 3 plates, 89 leaves each with 2 plates, and including engravings and etchings by Philibert and Gaspar Bouttats, Lucas Vorsterman and Wenceslaus Hollar), one engraving in text on page 8 of part one.



Antwerp, for the author, 1697. 4 parts in 1 volume. Folio. 19th-century polished mottled calf, sides and spine decorated in gold, gilt inner dentelles, yellow painted edges. With engraved allegorical title-page, letterpress title-page with the engraved coat of arms of Spain, 3 double-page engraved maps of Brabant (2) and Antwerp (1), 214 engraved and/or etched plates (2 coats of arms and 212 views; 3 folding, 18 double-page, 6 full-page, 3 leaves each with 3 plates, 89 leaves each with 2 plates, and including engravings and etchings by Philibert and Gaspar Bouttats, Lucas Vorsterman and Wenceslaus Hollar), one engraving in text on page 8 of part one. [4 (half-title and engraved title-page)], 8; 4; 4; 4; pp.

Very rare third enlarged and best edition of this famous and extensively illustrated work on the duchy of Brabant, including Louvain, Brussels, Antwerp and 's-Hertogenbosch and their surroundings by the historiographerJacob (Jacques) le Roy (1633-1719). Le Roy's Brabant is a rare and splendid work containing maps, plans and fine views of the castles and county seats of the nobility of Brabant, including their parks and gardens, as well as the main monasteries and abbeys.

The first edition was published in 1694 (Antwerp, Henri Thieullier, 1694); a second enlarged edition appeared in 1696 with the same publisher. This third edition has even five more plates than the second (the views of the castle of Liezel, the Castle Claverbladt at Wilrijk, and the castle Zelzate, and a double-page view of the castle Duysent Prykelen).

The plates, of which some were originally published in other works as the Chorographia by Sanderus, are engraved by several artists active in the Southern Netherlands in the last quarter of the17th century, including Jacobus Harrewijn who was a pupil of Romeyn de Hooghe, Franciscus Erlinger, Henry Causé, Philibert and Gaspar Bouttats, Robertus Whitehand, Lucas Vorsterman and Wenceslaus Hollar (3 double-page views dated 1649: the tower of the St. Rombaut Church at Malines, the Grand Chartreuse, and the O.L.V. Church at Antwerp), and Joannes Meyssens.
The work also includes maps of Brabant (by Moses Pitt & Steph. Swart), and Antwerp and surroundings, and double-page views of Averbode, Rooklooster, Villa Scharbecana, the abbey Groenendael, the Carthusian monasteries near Brussel and Lier, the monastery Bethlehem near Louvain, the monastery St. Michael near Antwerp, and the castles Ter Vueren, Bouchaut, Huldenberghe, Broechem, Corsendonck, Duysent Prykelen, Herbeke, etc.; the full-page views include Bergen op Zoom, Steenbergen, Oosterhout and, Roosendael; the numerous half-page engravings include Héverlé, Gaesbeek, Mombeke, Hoochstraten, Vilvoorde, Breda, Cranendonck,  Ravestein, Oostmal, Pluysegem, etc. etc.

Spine and corners slightly used; hinges weakening; few scratches on sides; offset of dentelles to facing flyleafs; some browning, especially the first and least ll. A fine copy from the collection of Lionel Phillips with his pasted bookplate.
Bibl. Belg. III, pp. 851-52 (including list of engravings); for some of Vorstermans engravings included in this work: Hollstein (Dutch & Flemish) I, p. 157, 120 state II; p. 160, 127 state II and p. 168, 138 (respectively Vorstermans double-page view of the Norbertine abbey at Averbode, the Augustine monastery at Corsendonck and the Carthusian monastery at Lier); KVK and WorldCat (5 copies, all in France); NCC (1 copy, Tilburg university); STCV12909627; cf. J.Th. de Raadt, Jacques Le Roy Baron de Broechem et du Saint-Empire Historien Brabançon et sa Famille (Nijmegen 1891).

Related Subjects: 17th Century  Belgicana  Brabant  Castles  Geography  History 

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