<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;">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.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;">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).</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;">From the Chalon-Scheler archive (sale, 2010, lot 419).</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;">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 &amp; C. Sorgeloos, Renier Chalon alias Fortsas. Un érudit malicieux au mitan du XIXe siècle. Morlanwelz, 2008, pp. 95-102.</span><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://catalyst.library.jhu.edu/catalog/bib_8921728" rel="ugc nofollow">Click here to view the Johns Hopkins University catalog record.</a></span></span></p>