[Belgium & Netherlands. Guicciardini] Belgium universum

Seu Omnium inferioris Germaniae regionum accurata descriptio. Tabulis geographicis, tam provinciarum quam urbium praecipuarum; nec non & additamentis nonnullis plurimum aucta & illustrata. Amsterdam, J. Janssonius, 1646. 2 parts in one vol. (8, incl. engr. title and coat of arms),120,(11),120-231,111 pp. Engraved ill. title, coat of arms and 96 (of 98) single or double-page plates. Contemp. vellum, folio.

Lacks the plates of Leeuwarden and Franeker. Sl. foxed/spotted, partly waterstained in blank foot margin (affecting several plates) and first few pp. in head margin (affecting title and coat of arms); title as well as reverse of the last leaf supported with paper strip in gutter. Vellum stained. This work on the Northern and Southern Netherlands, incl. Luxembourg, was first published in Italian in 1567. Plates depict maps of the Netherlands etc. and plans or views of cities such as Louvain, Brussels, Antwerp, Mechelen, Ghent, Ostend, Dunkerque, Lille, Douai, Mons, Namur, Liège, Luxembourg, Arnhem, Zaltbommel, Haarlem, Dordrecht, Amsterdam, Gouda, Hoorn, Gorinchem, The Hague, Middelburg, Zwolle, Groningen, etc.