ANTWERP -- RECHTEN, ende Costumen van Antwerpen. -- Bound with: ORDONNATIE ende Verhael vanden Stijl ende maniere van procederen voor Amptman Borghemeester ende Schepenen der Stadt van Antwerpen. Antw., Chr. Plantijn, 1582. 2 in 1 vol. (28), 390, (2); 56, (2) pp, blank. W. 2 woodcut city arms and 1 etched fold. map 'Beschriivinge vande paelen der vriiheiit van Antwerpen'. Fol. Cont. blind tooled ledger bind. w. (remnants) of cross stitched 'belts' (1 belt w. or. brass buckle). (Bind. dam. and w. repairs, leather overcover gone, copy augmented with blank leaves at beginning and end, map a bit rumpled and w. 3 small marginal splits but in very good interior condition w. ample margins).
According to an early inscription on the first blank leaf, the book belonged to the Antwerp guild of porters "buijldragers ambacht" which makes the provenance quite interesting. - Voet, Plantin Press, 569 & 108.€ 700
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