Madou, Jean-Baptiste

Madou, Jean-Baptiste

DE CLOET, Jean-Joseph Voyage pittoresque dans le royaume des Pays Bas [...]. [- Châteaux et monumens des Pays-Bas faisant suite au Voyage pittoresque [...]]. Brussels J.B.A. Jobard 1825-[1830] 4 vol., oblong 4to; 410 pl. (foxing, numerous on some pl. of the Voyage, less numerous in the Châteaux & monumens, 1 pl. loose and 2 loosening with dirty margins in the Voyage). Contemp. marbled sheep of half sheep with marbled paper covers, gilt-orn. flat spines (rubbed, head of vol. 2 Voyage missing, head and tail def. at "Châteaux et monumens"). First edition of the "Voyage pittoresque" and the following due to the success of the first work "Châteaux et monumens" and first issue of the plates. The "Voyage pittoresque" is illustrated (complete) with 202 lithogr. plates a.o. by Jean-Baptiste Madou, after the drawings of Otto van der Howen, B. Mary, T. Hubert, A. de Marbaix, etc. featuring city views, monuments, landscapes, castles and so on, in Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands. Also complete with the 2 lithogr. titles by H.A Kreins and the fold. map with coloured borders but with the portrait of the Princess of Orange by Prevost missing. Enriched in vol. I with a plate "Petite ville de Walcourt" (n. 34). The "Châteaux et monumens" is also complete with 205 lithogr. plates, published in 34 issues between 1825 and 1830, by Madou, Kreins, De Pellaert, Pringret, General von der Howen, A. de Marbaix, Lemaître... figuring many castles in Belgium, Netherlands (and also some views of Luxembourg), sometimes with the owner's name, monuments, churches, abbeys, landscapes... The 2 lithogr. titles present. Enriched with portrait of the Princess of Orange by Prevost. Ref. Van der Marck, pp. 73 and 252. - N. Walch, J.-B. Madou lithographe, 6-19.