FLANDERS / DUNKIRK]. FAULCONNIER (Pierre).... - Lot 60 - Auction Art Rémy Le Fur & Associés

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FLANDERS / DUNKIRK]. FAULCONNIER (Pierre).... - Lot 60 - Auction Art Rémy Le Fur & Associés
FLANDERS / DUNKIRK]. FAULCONNIER (Pierre). Historical description of Dunkirk, a very famous maritime city and seaport in Western Flanders. Containing its origin & progress, the conversion of its inhabitants to Christianity [...], the great men it has produced [...] With an exact description of its main buildings, its first walls, its fortifications [...]. A Bruges en Flandres, Chez Pierre Vande Cappelle, Libraire-Imprimeur & André Wydts, 1730. 2 volumes in one folio, half paper with green morocco (period binding). ORIGINAL EDITION due to the great bailiff of Dunkirk, Pierre Mathieu Faulconnier (1650-1735). Text on two columns. Two allegorical frontispieces, the first bearing the portrait of the author in medallion, two title vignettes, four plates and numerous figures engraved in the text, including several plans; headbands, lettering and endpapers. Heads damaged, jaws partly split and corners dulled. Polak, 3329.
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