Recherches sur les monnaies des Comtes de Hainaut, par Rénier Chalon
by J. (engr.) Vandendaelen, Chalon
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4to. pp. xii, 242, f. [1], [2] (map), xxvi numbered plates. Half red morocco over marbled boards. All engravings at the end, including a map of the Counties of Hainaut and Namur, are by J. Vandendaelen. ALS from Chalon to his niece (1 p., Ixelles, 26 November 1881) and a portrait of Chalon by David Joseph Desvachez bound in, three numismatic offprints by Chalon laid in.
Bound with three illustrated Suppléments (Recherches sur les monnaies des Comtes de Hainaut, par Rénier Chalon. Suppléments. Brussels, A la librairie polytechnique d’Aug. Decq, 1852, 1854, 1857, pp. xcii, see Bib# 780501) and Pièces justificatives (1857, pp. 92, f. [1], 6 numbered plates, all engraved by J. Vandendaelen).
From the Chalon-Scheler archive (sale, 2010, lot 419).
With the Namur volume (see Bib# 8921729/Fr# 1271 in this collection), an outstanding work of legitimate scholarship of the historian and bibliophile Renier Chalon (1802-1889), the mastermind behind the Fortsas Bibliohoax (1840); see F. de Cattalaÿ & C. Sorgeloos, Renier Chalon alias Fortsas. Un érudit malicieux au mitan du XIXe siècle. Morlanwelz, 2008, pp. 95-102.
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