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Very rare publication of a dispute between doctors and apothecaries in Brussels

[SOPHIE, Jacques]. Noodighe op-rechtinghe van 't collegie de medecyne, opentlyck bewesen aen d'inwoonders der stadt van Brussel, met 't verhael van alle swarigheden daer-overgeresen, ende weder legginge van d'op-sprake, daer-tegen onglanghs voor ghewendt.
Brussels, Guilliam Scheybels, 1660. 4to. With an emblematic woodcut on the last page. [6], 101, [1] pp. Full description
€ 800
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Religious festivities in the Southern Netherlands

[SPLENDID CEREMONY - MECHELEN]. Prael-treyn verrykt door ry-benden, praelwagens, zinne-beelden en andere oppronkingen...
Mechelen, J.F. vander Elst, [1775?].
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(2) [SPLENDID CEREMONY - BRUSSELS]. Beschryvinge van de ry-bende ofte cavalcade..
Brussels, J. vanden Berghen, [1770].
(3) [MEYER, Jean Thomas]. Beschryvinge van het zeven honderdjaerig jubilé van den heyligen Macarius...
Ghent, Jean Meyer, [1767].
3 works in 1 volume. 4to. Ad 1 with an engraved coat of arms, an engraved headpiece, and 16 engraved plates (including 14 folding). Ad 2 with 5 numbered folding engraved plates. Ad 3 with 15 mostly folding engraved plates, including one large folding plate showing fireworks (36.5 x 48 cm). Contemporary calf, gold-tooled spine. [12], 34 [= 38]; 36; [8], XII, 84 pp. Full description
€ 7,500
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12 views of the gardens at Beloeil: "the principal example in Belgium of the classical French style"

VASSE, Jacques-Abraham-Antoine. Souvenir de Beloeil, dédié à son Altesse Sérénissime la Princesse de Ligne, née Princesse Lubomirska.
Brussels, Deltombe, 1853. Oblong 1mo (34 x 50.5 cm). With 12 double-tinted lithographed plates (each ca. 24 x 32 cm), by Van der Heecht, Gerlier and Gratry after drawings by Antoine Vasse (11) and Van der Heecht (1) and printed by J. Lots. Contemporary brown half sheepskin. [8], 17, [1 blank] pp. text Full description
€ 3,000
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Atrocities committed by the French army of Louis XVI, illustrated by Romeyn de Hooghe

[WICQUEFORT, Abraham de]. Advis fidelle aux veritables Hollandois. Touchant ce qui s'est passé dans les villages de Bodegrave & Swammerdam, & les cruautés inoüies, que les François y ont exercées. Avec un memoire de la derniere marche de l'armée du Roy de France en Brabant & en Flandre.
[The Hague, Jan and Daniel Steucker], 1673. 4to. With 10 finely engraved scenes on the horrors of war on 8 folding/double-page plates. Further with a woodcut device on the title page and a woodcut tailpiece on the final page. 17th- or 18th-century calf. [1, 1 blank], 202 pp. Full description
€ 5,000
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Miracles from Brussels, illustrated by Adriaen Collaert

YDENS, Steven. Historie van het H. Sacrament der mirakelen. Berustende tot Bruessel inde collegiale kercke van S. Goedele. Beschreven door M. Steven Ydens Brusselaer, priester, licent. inde H. Godtheyt, ende canonick vande voorseyde kercke.
Brussels, Rutger Velpius, 1608. Small 8vo. With an engraved vignette on the title page and 17 engravings on the integral leaves, woodcut pictorial initials, and headpieces built up from typographic ornaments. Later calf (ca. 1700?). [46], 282, [20] pp. Full description
€ 2,500
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