BOUTTATS Pieter Balthazar ( illustrator ) - Johannes Paulus ROBYNS ( publisher-printer ) :
Reference : 53891
.: Antwerpen, by Joannes Paulus Robyns, in de Wolstraet, 1718, in-4°, 24 cm, engraved frontispiece (burning church, by Bouttats) + 8 nn pp. Sewn together, but without a cover (removed from a binding ?). Two small tears in the lower margin of the engraving, a few small stains, but still a fine copy. Occasional poem in Dutch on the burning down of the Jesuit Church in Antwerp in 1718. The church was famous for its ceiling paintings by P.P.Rubens. The church was completely destroyed, but later rebuild on the same site.