Antiquarenbeurs Mechelen
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Florisatus Fine BooksPlein 19 C
2511 CS Den Haag
Netherlands
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In a signed binding by Deflinne
Mémoire, Sur L Etat Politique des Paÿs Bas & la Constitution tant externe qu?interne des Provinces, Pour servir à L?Instruction particuliere de Son Altesse Roiale Mons.r l?Archi-Duc Joseph." Expertly calligraphed manuscript in brown ink in French current script. Decorations, titles and initials in black ink.
1760. Folio (325 x 200 mm). [I], 173 leaves.
Title within an elaborate architectonical baroque black border, 15 tailpieces and many calligraphed titles.
Red morocco, gold tooled. On the covers a rich lacework border of curly tools, flowers and birds. Spine with 6 raised bands, black title label in compartment 2 and in the other compartments a fleuron with corner tools and stars. Boardedges and turn ins with a vegetal roll. End leaves of light blue silk. End bands of blue and white silk. Blue ribbon marker. Edges gilt over marbling. (Signed on turn ins: "DEFLINNE TOURNAY"). Exceptional beautiful manuscript copy of the Mémoire by Patrice François de Neny (1716-1784), who was an enlightened statesman and Head of the Private Council of the Austrian Netherlands under Empress Maria Theresia. In 1758 he was charged by Governour Cobenzl to write a memorandum on the situation of the Austrian Netherlands, as a part of an educational project to provide basic knowledge of the Austrian Netherlands for the future emperor Joseph II. This work was finished in 1759, all the other memoranda for this project were left unfinished. Altough it was confidential, several manuscript copies were distributed before it's publication in 1784. This is the copy of Louis Wavrans, who was also a top politican and initially asked to write a memorandum for the same project, but dit not realize it finally. The fact that Neny and Wavrans worked at this same project, and the fact that they were friends is a good explanation why he was given such an outstanding copy.
Enriched with a letter from «Neny» to "Monsieur Huughe, Echevin de la Chatellenie d?Ypres". Brussels, 8 March 1770. Bifolium, 1 p., on paper, in French, with red wax seal.
- Provenance: Louis François Julien de Wavrans (1715-1796), president of the Chamber of Accounts. His printed ex libris on an upper end leaf.
- Literature: Sorgeloos, «Les Mémoires historiques et politiques [...]», Archives et Bibliothèques de Belgique, 38 (1989), p. 7-56, 135-189; Verschaffel, De hoed en de hond, p. 62-65; Sorgeloos, Les Deflinne. Quatre générations de libraires et relieurs à Tournai aux XVIIIe et XIXe siècles. Brux. 1997.
- Condition: Few small scratches; Else an outstanding copy in a rare signed binding by Deflinne.
Title within an elaborate architectonical baroque black border, 15 tailpieces and many calligraphed titles.
Red morocco, gold tooled. On the covers a rich lacework border of curly tools, flowers and birds. Spine with 6 raised bands, black title label in compartment 2 and in the other compartments a fleuron with corner tools and stars. Boardedges and turn ins with a vegetal roll. End leaves of light blue silk. End bands of blue and white silk. Blue ribbon marker. Edges gilt over marbling. (Signed on turn ins: "DEFLINNE TOURNAY"). Exceptional beautiful manuscript copy of the Mémoire by Patrice François de Neny (1716-1784), who was an enlightened statesman and Head of the Private Council of the Austrian Netherlands under Empress Maria Theresia. In 1758 he was charged by Governour Cobenzl to write a memorandum on the situation of the Austrian Netherlands, as a part of an educational project to provide basic knowledge of the Austrian Netherlands for the future emperor Joseph II. This work was finished in 1759, all the other memoranda for this project were left unfinished. Altough it was confidential, several manuscript copies were distributed before it's publication in 1784. This is the copy of Louis Wavrans, who was also a top politican and initially asked to write a memorandum for the same project, but dit not realize it finally. The fact that Neny and Wavrans worked at this same project, and the fact that they were friends is a good explanation why he was given such an outstanding copy.
Enriched with a letter from «Neny» to "Monsieur Huughe, Echevin de la Chatellenie d?Ypres". Brussels, 8 March 1770. Bifolium, 1 p., on paper, in French, with red wax seal.
- Provenance: Louis François Julien de Wavrans (1715-1796), president of the Chamber of Accounts. His printed ex libris on an upper end leaf.
- Literature: Sorgeloos, «Les Mémoires historiques et politiques [...]», Archives et Bibliothèques de Belgique, 38 (1989), p. 7-56, 135-189; Verschaffel, De hoed en de hond, p. 62-65; Sorgeloos, Les Deflinne. Quatre générations de libraires et relieurs à Tournai aux XVIIIe et XIXe siècles. Brux. 1997.
- Condition: Few small scratches; Else an outstanding copy in a rare signed binding by Deflinne.
€ 3.500
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