5478 - 5838 FINE ARTS - DUTCH TOPOGRAPHY. MAPS, PLANS and VIEWS
- Sl. yellowed and colours faded. = Blonk-van der Wijst 18.2.
- Fold next to middle fold; trimmed on/ just outside the border line.
= Blonk-van der Wijst 42 (p.42-43 and 233-235 and ill. 26).
AND 2 others, i.a. "Noordt Hollandt." (partly handcol. engr. map w. many ships, Amst., F. de Wit, ±1680).
- Paper sl. brittle along upper/ lower/ blank margin.
= Blonk-van der Wijst 42 (p.42-43 and 233-235 and ill. 26).
- Small tear in lower margin; sl. browned.
= Blonk-van der Wijst 42 (p.42-43 and 233-235 and ill. 26).
- Extremities sl. frayed; most plates w. (vague) folds in blank margins; "Zeeland" trifle yellowed; "Groningen" w. sm. inkstain and sm. tear in blank margins, not touching image.
= Very decorative series. All calligraphed within borders with (provincial) coats of arms, allegorical and mythological figures and 2 topographic views. Contains: I. "Holland" by G. VAN BAARSEL and W.J. STRUNCK after A. ZÜRCHER, with views of Binnenhof (The Hague) and IJ (Amsterdam) (n.pl., n.publ., n.d.); II. "Zeeland" by C. VAN BAARSEL and J. VAN MEURS, with views of Middelburg and Vlissingen (n.pl., n.publ., n.d.); III. "Gelderland" by C. VAN BAARSEL and W.J. STRUNCK after J.G. VISSER, with views of Arnhem and Zutphen (n.pl., n.publ., n.d.); IV. "Utrecht" by C. VAN BAARSEL, I.J. DE WIT and P.H. JONXIS after J.G. VISSER, with views of the Domtoren and city hall (Amst., C. Focking, 1791); V. "Overijssel" by C. VAN BAARSEL and J.W. STRUNCK after J. VAN MEURS, with two views of Deventer (n.pl., n.publ., n.d.); VI. "Vriesland" by C. VAN BAARSEL, I.J. DE WIT and P.H. JONXIS after J.G. VISSER, with views of turfsteken (peat-cutting) and the harbour of Harlingen (Amst., C. Focking, 1790) and VII. "Groningen" by A. ZÜRCHER, with views of Grote Markt (Groningen) and Appingedam (n.pl., n.publ., n.d.). All "proefdruk". Atlas van Stolk 5552; not in F.M.
WITH: "Verklaaring der zinnebeeldige tekening op de Provintie Utrecht" (2x, 1 cut sl. short) and "Verklaaring der zinnebeeldige tekening op de Provintie Vriesland".
- Pinhole in centre. = Van der Krogt/ Koeman IV-2/1, 2020.
ADDED: 3 others, i.a. an engr. map of Brabant and surroundings (without title, w. handcol. borders, publ. by G. Mercator).
- Printing partly blurry. = Van der Krogt/ Koeman IV-2/1, 2019.
- Lacks the fold. map; owner's entry on first frontisp.; some lvs. repaired w. paper; two plates cut out from a different work and mounted on lvs.; sl. foxed/ (finger)soiled; endpapers loose(ning). Spine sunned/ sl. dam.
= Cat. Harlemia Illustrata 295-394; cf. Ekama 555 (ed. 1768). One of the finest books on 18th cent. Dutch stately homes, also of great importance for contemporary garden-architecture (the views also include detailed plans of the gardens).
- Lacks plate w. views 91/ 92; map and some lvs. (incl. plates) repaired/ strengthened w. paper; one plate lower outer corner torn off, not affecting image; (sl.) (finger)soiled mostly in blank margin; a few sm. (water)stains; new endpapers. Covers sl. rubbed; top of spine dam.
= One of the finest books on 18th-cent. Dutch stately homes, also of great importance for contemporary garden-architecture (the views also include 9 detailed plans of the gardens).
- Upper margins sl. dustsoiled, mainly on folds, sheet 7 also in right margin. Otherwise fine.
= Realized on occasion of the upcoming negotiations between the Provinces of Utrecht and Holland about the increasing of the embankments and the clearing of the river bed. Progress was slow, due to the constant inundations of the meadows along the river, and the map was completed only after the river bed had already been cleared. Publication was then postponed to a next phase of planned waterworks. Van den Brink, Kartobibliografie 102.1-102.7 and in extenso p.115-121; Koeman, Handleiding 105; Koeman, Geschiedenis, p.175-176: "formidabele kaart".
- Foxed in upper margin, sl. affecting image.
ADDED: an etched map of Aalst.
- Blank margins sl. foxed. = Brightly coloured.
"De Koning van Holland op de puinhopen van Leyden, In den eersten Nacht na het springen van het Buskruid". Engr. by R. VINKELES and D. VRIJDAG after J.W. PIENEMAN, 15x22,5 cm., ±1807.
- Blank margins trifle foxed. = F.M. 5700b. "Proefdruk" in the plate.
AND one other engraving concerning Leyden (1689).
- Slightly waterst.; oblique impression causing tiny loss of borderline in lower left and upper right corner; some sm. marginal tears.
= Originally published in De Wit's Townbooks. This copy with the address of Covens & Mortier.
= Guicciardini Illustratus 2.1.
"Leyden". Woodcut view, 13x17 cm., on a leaf with printed text from the German edition of S. MÜNSTER, Cosmographia, ±1580. - AND 3 engr./ lithogr. views and plans of Leyden, i.a. "The Stadt-Haus Leyden" (handcol. engr. view by J. REDAWAY after BATTY).
- Partly trifle browned. = SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE CXXVIII.
- Slightly yellowed. = Cf. Van der Krogt/ Koeman II, 3170:2.
"Tabula Ducatus Limburch. et Comitatus Valckenburch." Engr. map w. handcol. borders and 2 cartouches, 47x55,6 cm., Amst., F. de Wit, ±1680 (browned; doubled). - AND 2 others of Limburg and Gennep.
= Guicciardini Illustratus 1.1.
"De Stadt Valkenburg Overvallen Anno 1644". Engr. view, 13,5x37,1 cm., from I. COMMELIN, Frederick Hendrick van Nassauw (1652. F.M. 1877. With a vague oblique fold). - AND 2 others, i.a. "De Stadt Dalen Verrast Anno 1644" (engr. view from the same work).
- A few foxed spots. = Guicciardini Illustratus 2.2: "rechtsonder genummerd 20".
AND 1 other 17th cent. engr. view of Roermond. - AND 1 handcol. steelengr. view, "Siège de Maestricht" from G. GAVARD, Galeries Historiques de Versailles.