[ALBUMS DE CROŸ] - Lot 303

[ALBUMS DE CROŸ] DUVOSQUEL (Jean-Marc, dir.) & COLLECTIF. Albums de Croÿ. Volumes I to XXVI. Lille, Conseil régional du Nord, Brussels, Crédit communal de Belgique, 1988-1991. 26 volumes in-folio, publisher's white boards bearing the arms of the Duc de Croÿ, illustrated dust jackets. Editions enriched with over 2,500 color plates based on drawings by Adrien de Montigny. Charles de Croÿ (1560-1612), a powerful lord of northern France, was responsible for the publication of this vast documentary on all his domains, covering a vast area of northern France and present-day Belgium, from the former principalities of Artois, Hainaut and Namur to the Duchy of Aarschot, via the Escaut, Lys and Sambre valleys.