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Pompa funebris optimi potentissimiq[ue] principis Alberti Pii, Archiducis Austriae, ducis Burg. Bra. &c. / veris imaginibus expressa a Iacobo Francquart archit. reg. ; eiusdem principis morientis vita, scriptore E. Puteano, consil. et historiogr. reg.

Accession number
PML 76373
Creator
Francquart, Jacques, 1577-1651.
Published
Bruxellae : Prostant apud Joannem Mommartium, MDCXXIII [1623]
Credit line
Gift of Paul Mellon, 1979.
Notes
Commemorates the funeral ceremony of Albert VII Habsburg, Archduke of Austria and governor of the Netherlands, held in the church of St. Gudule in Brussels on 12 March 1622.
Dedicatory letter and some plates signed Jacques Francquart.
"Cum gratia et privilegio."
Publication date precedes printer statement on t.p.
Library's copy lacks printer imprint and plates xlviia-c.
Mellon no.: L 452A.
Description
[26] pages, lxiiii leaves of plates (some double, some folded) : illustrations (engravings), portraits ; 29 x 40 cm (fol.)
Provenance
From the Paul Mellon collection (with bookplate).
Binding
Marbled boards backed in white morocco.
Classification
Department