Anvers à travers les âges, dédié à leurs Majestés le Roi et la Reine des Belges. - Génard, P.

2 vols. Folio (36x27 cm). Contemporary red halfmorocco, with morocco cornerpieces, covers with marbled paper; spines with ribbons, gilt in compartments; marbled endpapers. Original decorated wrappers, designed by Louis Titz, preserved (neatly restored). Tops gilt, uncut. xl,564; 616 pp. The first 40 pages: J. Van den Gheyn, Le sol d'Anvers et l'Escaut. With 3 frontispiece-portraits: portraits of Leopold II and Marie-Henriette after photographs of Ghémar, and portrait of Génard. With 22 other plates and 2 illustrated sub-titles. Among the plates: 3 colourplates, 10 double-page plates (2 maps, 1 view, 1 plan, 1 map), 1 large folding plan of Antwerp (60x40 cm) and 1 large folding view of the fortification of Antwerp (29x94 cm). - Richly illustrated, partly with line-drawings, maps, plans, views, portraits and genealogical tables, for the greater part facsimiles of old engravings: i.a. 226 full-page illustrations (59 portraits, 2 maps, 4 genealogical tables, 1 plan, etc.). - Sumptuous monography in luxurious bindings and in very fine interior condition.