Foppens, Jean-Francois (1689-1761) Bibliotheca Belgica. Brussels: Pierre Foppens, 1739. Two large quarto volumes, title pages printed in black and red, illustrated with 145 portraits, nine of which are folding, all others full-paged, bound in full contemporary sponge-decorated calf, the spines quite dry, boards becoming detached, heads chipped; ex libris Guiseppe Martini (1870-1944) with his bookplate pasted inside each volume, with an added portrait of Thomas a Kempis slipped in, 9 3/4 x 7 1/2 in. (2)
Foppens, Jean-Francois (1689-1761) Bibliotheca Belgica. Brussels: Pierre Foppens, 1739. Two large quarto volumes, title pages printed in black and red, illustrated with 145 portraits, nine of which are folding, all others full-paged, bound in full contemporary sponge-decorated calf, the spines quite dry, boards becoming detached, heads chipped; ex libris Guiseppe Martini (1870-1944) with his bookplate pasted inside each volume, with an added portrait of Thomas a Kempis slipped in, 9 3/4 x 7 1/2 in. (2)
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