VINCHANT, François Lot n° 599

Annales de la province et comté du Hainaut contenant les choses les plus remarquable advenue dans ceste province 6 vol. in-8°, in frontispiece of the second volume: portrait in lithogr. of Fr. Vinchant. At the end of the last volume: heraldic map or the gardens of the coat of arms of the nobility of Hainaut (folding lithogr.). Marginal foxing, tear repaired in the last page of the last volume. Limited edition of 400 copies, no. 49. Paperback, original covers, spine of first volume reinforced François Vinchant (1582-1635). "His Annales are quite accurate as far as the Middle Ages are concerned and even more so for the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. He has recorded there many historical documents that one would search in vain elsewhere." "The Société des Bibliophiles intends to publish a complete edition of the Annales, in which the text will be religiously preserved. Ref: Biographie montoise (1848), p. 268-271 Brussels A. Vandale, ed. of the Société des Bibliophiles belges 1848-1853