ANDRÉ, Valère

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Very good copy of the second and much augmented edition of Valère Andr é s Bibliotheca Belgica , first published in 1623. Andr é (or Valerius Andreas or Walter Driessens, 1588-1650 ) was a scholar of antiquities, Hebrew studies and law, and professor at Leuven. His Bibliotheca Belgica is a monumental bio-bibliography of Dutch and Belgian authors in the arts, sciences and letters and their works in Latin, French and Flemish (these last often listed with Latinised titles). Prefaced by a topographical delineation of Belgium and an index of names absent in the first edition, it is a fundamental source for the bibliographic history of the early modern Low Countries, and the basis for Jean-François Foppens s Bibliotheca Belgica (1739). Show more