[Valenciennes]. OUTREMAN (Henry d'). History of the City and - Lot 38

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[Valenciennes]. OUTREMAN (Henry d'). History of the City and - Lot 38
[Valenciennes]. OUTREMAN (Henry d'). History of the City and County of Valentiennes. Divided into four parts. By the late Henri d'Outreman, squire, Lord of Rombies, provost of Valentiennes. Illustrated and expanded by the Reverend Father Pierre d’Outreman.... Douai: Printed by the Widow Marc Wyon, 1639. Folio, [1] title page and frontispiece, XXX pp., [1] folio (approval, privilege), 588 pp., [24] folios (including the index), [4] folios (placed between pp. 244 and 245: Genealogy of the Counts, half-title of Part 2), recent Bradel-style marbled cardboard binding, fawn-colored sheepskin title label (margins of the title page and frontispiece restored, slight browning, some soiling; map missing). A rare work on Valenciennes consisting of four parts: historical chronicles, a description of the city’s peculiarities and remarkable features, the history of its religious foundations, and the history of its illustrious figures. It is illustrated with a title-frontispiece engraved on copper by P. Rucholle, and a full-page portrait of the author engraved on copper; the missing map is replaced here by an inset engraving by Romeyn de Hoghe, titled “The Capture of Valenciennes: Marguerite of Parma, Governor.”
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