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917 - Les délices du païs de Liège, ou Description géographique, t…
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Les délices du païs de Liège, ou Description géographique, topographique et chorographique des monumens sacrés et profanes [...]. 5 vols. in-f° : [28]-378-[4], [20]-xxiv-372-[7], [16]-194-194*/195*-195/265 [= 266]-265*/268*-454-[5], [16]-448-[6], [12]-203-[1 bl.]-335-[5] pp. 230 plates (rare foxing), plate of the Mausoleum in vol. 3 detached, very little marg. wetness). - First edition, complete with 230 etchings: 203 views of towns (including a fold-out panoramic view of Liège), castles (depending on the reception Saumery had smoke coming out of the chimneys added or not), palaces, abbeys and churches on double pages by Remacle Le Loup (except the view of the town hall by J. Xhrouet),- 1 engraving of the mausoleum of Marie-Anne de Hinnisdael,- and 26 portraits engraved by P.A. Kilian after L. Fines, except for the portrait of Charles de Méan after Michel Natalis. After an eventful life, the French Calvinist de Saumery (c. 1690-c. 1767) converted to Catholicism in Liège where he undertook to write "Les Délices", with the exception of the historical précis and the biographical notes written by G. de Crassier. Following an affair of morality, he left Liège for Holland, where he wrote a vengeful pamphlet against those who had made him rich and expressed his regret at having abandoned Protestantism. Enriched with "La vue de Maestricht" (vol. IV, p. 79, flyleaf), plate added optionally but often missing. - De Theux 520-521. - De le Court 313. - Funck 393. - Biogr. nat. XXI:427-435. - Not in BB.
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