CLOET, Jean-Joseph de.
Voyage pittoresque dans le Royaume des Pays Bas, dédié a S.A.I. & R. Madame la Princesse d'Orange ...
Brussels, J. B. A. Jobard, 1825.
With: (2) [IDEM]. Chateaux et monumens des Pays-Bas faisant suite au voyage pittoresque.
Brussels, J.B.A. Jobard, 1827-1829. 2 parts in 4 volumes. Oblong 4to. Each volume with a lithographed title page. The whole work comprises 407 full-page lithographic plates protected by tissue paper guards, 2 folding maps, and a lithographic portrait. Contemporary gold-tooled marbled calf.
€ 19,500
Rare complete and uniformly bound set of the first edition of both volumes on the Voyage as well as the later published volumes of the Chateaux et monuments, numbered as one series from 1-4, which are very rarely offered together. The present copy of Chateaux et monumens contains 26 extra plates. The series include a collection of 407 full-page lithographs with views of towns, monuments, landscapes, and castles in the Low Countries (present day Belgium, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands). The plates are lithographed by Jean-Baptiste Madou, after drawings of Otto van der Howen, Benjamin Mary, T. Hubert, A. de Marbaix, and others. The work was written by the Belgian author Jean-Joseph de Cloet (1794-1855), who also wrote a number of works comparing the Dutch and French language. The third volume contains twenty extra lithographic plates on the city gates and surroundings of Brussels, taken from Guillaume Burggraaff's Collection des anciennes portes de Bruxelles (1823). The fourth volume contains six extra plates comprising the serie Six paysages dessinés d'après nature et lithographiés par Deroy (1824) by C. Constans.
The corners of the boards are somewhat scuffed, the joints are weakened, but the structural integrity of the bindings is still intact, with some loss of leather on the boards, which has been filled in with a darker paint. The leaves are very lightly foxed. Otherwise in good condition. Bodel Nijenhuis 258 and 265.
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