Pierre Lambert de Saumery | Les delices de Liege, Liege, 1738-1744, 5 volumes, calf bindings

The Property of the Downside Abbey General Trust

[Pierre Lambert de Saumery]

Les délices du pais de Liège, ou, description géographique, topographique et chorographique des monumens sacrés et profanes de cet évêché-principauté... Liège: Everard Kints, 1738-1744

5 volumes, folio (340 x 205mm.), half-titles, title-printed in red and black, volume 3 with additional Ccc2 leaf, printed correction slip pasted to Mm2 in volume 5, numerous engraved plates and portraits (see footnote for plate count), contemporary speckled calf gilt, spines gilt in compartments, one plate in vol.2 with tear along fold, one plate in vol.3 with staining around image, flyleaf removed from start of vol.4, bindings slightly rubbed (volume 5 frayed at corners)

An extensive survey of the lands of Liège, including churches, monasteries and castles with numerous plates. The plate count is as follows:

Vol.1: 1 folding plate, 42 double-page plates

Vol.2: 43 double-page plates

vol.3: 64 double-page plates, 1 single plate

vol.4: engraved portrait, 51 double-page plates

vol.5: 25 engraved portraits

PROVENANCE:

J. Gomez, signature dated 1775; George Goold, bookplates; Daniel Parsons, Begbrook, inscriptions dated 11 September 1852