The Property of the Downside Abbey General Trust[Pierre Lambert de Saumery] Les délices du pais de Liège, ou, géographique, topographique et chorographique des monumens sacrés et profanes de cet évêché-principauté... Liège: Everard Kints, 1738-1744 5 volumes, folio (340 x 205mm.), half-titles, title-printed in red and black, volume 3 with additional Ccc2 leaf, printed correction slip pasted to Mm2 in volume 5, numerous engraved plates and portraits (see footnote for plate count), contemporary speckled calf gilt, spines gilt in compartments, one plate in vol.2 with tear along fold, one plate in vol.3 with staining around image, flyleaf removed from start of vol.4, bindings slightly rubbed (volume 5 frayed at corners) An extensive survey of the lands of Liège, including churches, monasteries and castles with numerous plates. The plate count is as follows: Vol.1: 1 folding plate, 42 double-page plates Vol.2: 43 double-page plates vol.3: 64 double-page plates, 1 single plate vol.4: engraved portrait, 51 double-page plates vol.5: 25 engraved portraits PROVENANCE: J. Gomez, signature dated 1775; George Goold, bookplates; Daniel Parsons, Begbrook, inscriptions dated 11 September 1852Condition reportCondition is described in the main body of the cataloguing, where appropriate The lot is sold in the condition it is in at the time of sale. The
The Property of the Downside Abbey General Trust[Pierre Lambert de Saumery] Les délices du pais de Liège, ou, géographique, topographique et chorographique des monumens sacrés et profanes de cet évêché-principauté... Liège: Everard Kints, 1738-1744 5 volumes, folio (340 x 205mm.), half-titles, title-printed in red and black, volume 3 with additional Ccc2 leaf, printed correction slip pasted to Mm2 in volume 5, numerous engraved plates and portraits (see footnote for plate count), contemporary speckled calf gilt, spines gilt in compartments, one plate in vol.2 with tear along fold, one plate in vol.3 with staining around image, flyleaf removed from start of vol.4, bindings slightly rubbed (volume 5 frayed at corners) An extensive survey of the lands of Liège, including churches, monasteries and castles with numerous plates. The plate count is as follows: Vol.1: 1 folding plate, 42 double-page plates Vol.2: 43 double-page plates vol.3: 64 double-page plates, 1 single plate vol.4: engraved portrait, 51 double-page plates vol.5: 25 engraved portraits PROVENANCE: J. Gomez, signature dated 1775; George Goold, bookplates; Daniel Parsons, Begbrook, inscriptions dated 11 September 1852Condition reportCondition is described in the main body of the cataloguing, where appropriate The lot is sold in the condition it is in at the time of sale. The
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