Bruxelles à travers les âges. Dédié à Mgr. le Prince Baudouin.
Hymans, Louis
Bruylant-Christophe et Cie, Éditeurs · Bruxelles · c. 1882
2 vols. Folio (35x27 cm). Half morocco, with morocco cornerpieces; spines gilt, with title-labels; gilt title on frontcover, gilt lines around borders (top spine second vol. damaged, some rubbings). Top gilt; marbled endpapers. 466 & 484 pp.With title-vignettes and profusely illustrated with numerous illustrations in text:: views plans , maps, portraits, views of buldings, historical scenes, coats of arms, etc., partly full-page and nice head- and tail-pieces. . And with, together, A) 61 engraved plates and B) 9 chromolithographies - A): Engraved plates: 2 frontispiece-portraits - 1 prel. plate ('Archange Michel'), - 2 folding views 'Canal de Willebroeck' (57 x 10 cm) & 'Rue Madeleine' (130 x 28 cm) , - 16 double-page views (2 Parcs , 2 Palais, 5 'Fêtes Tour et Taxi', 1 'États Généraux', 1 Réception à Ste Gudule', 4 'Inauguration Guillaume I', 1 'Béguinage')., - 5 double-page plans (4 'Bruxelles' , 1 'Palais Ducs de Brabant' ) , - 1 Double-page facs. (l'Union de Bruxelles'), - 18 fullpage plates ( with 36 scenes 'Journées de Septembre'.) & 16 fullpage plates (with 64 scenes of 'La Pompe Funèbre de l'Archiduc Albert'). .- B): Chromolithographs: 5 with coats of arms, 1 with flags and 4 with together 12 military costumes. - Interior nice and clean. Over all a good and complete copy of the history of Brussels (A third vol. 'Bruxelles contemporaine' is published separately).