ROY, Jacob le.
Castella et prætoria nobilium Brabantiæ, coenobiaque celebriora, ad vivum delineata, in quatuor partes divisa: complectentes agrum Lovaniensem, Bruxellensem, Antverpiensem, et Sylvæ-Ducensem. Cum brevi eorundem descriptione, & gentilitiis toparcharum insignibus/ Chateaux et maisons de campagne des gentilhommes du Brabant (...)/ Kasteelen en heeren huysen der edelen van Brabant (...).
Leiden, Peter van der Aa, 1699. 2 parts in 1 volume. Folio. With an engraved frontispiece to part 1, 2 engraved title vignettes, 2 full-page engraved dedicatory plates, 1 engraved headpiece, vol. 1 with 211 engravings (4 folding maps, 1 folding plan, 14 folding plates, and 192 views in the text); vol. 2 with 1 folding map and 7 engraved illustrations in the text. With: [IDEM]. L'erection de toutes les terres, seigneuries, & familles titrees du Brabant.
Leiden, Pieter van der Aa, 1699. Contemporary sprinkled quarter calf. [6], 143, [4], 108 ll.
€ 6,000
Enlarged edition of a famous and extensively illustrated work on the duchy of Brabant, including Louvain, Brussels, Antwerp and 's-Hertogenbosch and their surroundings by the historiographer Jacob le Roy (1633-1719). This rare work contains 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 engravings are excecuted by several artists, such as Jacob Harrewijn (1660-1727), a student of Romeyn de Hooghe, Lucas Vorsterman II (1595-1675), who worked with Peter Paul Rubens, and Robert Whitehand. Amongst the castles and houses depicted are views of Bonlez, Beersel, Bois-Seigneur-Isaac, Corroy-le-Château, Vilvoorde, Cleydael, Berchem and many others, as well as views of monasteries and cloisters such as St Michael's Abbey, Corsendonck and the Groenendael Priory. Other than castles and monasteries, the work also contains a large view of the city of Turnhout, and a folding plate of the St. Rumbold's Tower at Mechelen.
It is bound, as usual, with Le Roy's L'erection de toutes les terres, giving extracts of letters of Charles V, Phillippe II, Charles II and other emperors and kings on conference about titles of barons, viscounts and counts and the setting up of lands in baronies, marquisates, and principalities. It contains a large double-page map of Brabant and 7 engraved illustrations of Héverlé, Hoogstraten, Walhain, Grobbendonck, Trazegnies, Grimberghen and Westerloo, identical to the map and engravings of these country houses in the first work.
With the bookplate of Ivan Plissart (late 19th-early to mid-20th century) mounted on the front pastedown, and a round shelfmark label mounted on the back board. The boards and spine are somewhat rubbed, the edges and corners of the boards are scuffed, the spine ends are slightly worn. The map of Tongerlo is somewhat browned, but otherwise internally very clean. Overall in good condition. Bibl. Belg. III, pp. 852-854; Hollstein VII, pp. 221; Hollstein LII, pp. 56-63; Ad 1: STCN 832271780 (6 copies); USTC 1841122 (4 copies); ad 2: STCN 832271861 (4 copies); USTC 1841121 (4 copies).
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