5457 - 5633 FINE ARTS - FOREIGN TOPOGRAPHY. MAPS, PLANS and VIEWS
- Closed tear in upper margin (4 cm.) and at lower end of central fold; tiny closed hole (no loss of image).
"Picardia Regio Belgica". Engr. map w. nice title-cartouche, regional coat of arms and scale bar cartouche, by J. SURHONIUS, 38,5x53 cm., Amst., W. and J. Blaeu, ±1650.
- Sl. yellowed; sl. browned along central fold. = Van der Krogt/ Koeman 4100:2A.
- Lower right (blank) corner restored/ strengthened; middlefold splitting at lower end.
= Attractive map w. fine, large cartouche.
- Some vague mold stains.
= Decorative double-map of the Berry and the Limagne in central France. Van der Krogt/ Koeman IIIB, 4360+4857:31; Van den Broecke 39.
AND 2 similar maps from the same work: "Galliae Narbonensis Ora Marittima"/ "Sabaudiae, et Burgundiae Comitatus Descriptio" (on 1 leaf) and "Burgundiae Comitatus Recentiss. Descriptio".
= A later edition of the 1552 edition: w. "Edition de 1552" engr. in upper right corner.
= "The Juggler of the Château d'Eau", "Itinerants on the Boulevards", "Parisians reading the Public Prints in the Garden of the Tuilleries", "La Morgue", "The Blind Man of the Bridge of Arts" (some soiling), "Dancers on Stilts, in the Champs-Elysées", "The Flower Market", "Interior of a swimming school", "The Charcoal Porters", "Office of nurses", "Military Degradation in the Place Vendôme" and "The Meridian of the Palais Royal". Cf. Lipperheide Fd 19; Abbey, Travel, 114 and cf. 113.
- Sl. foxed.
= Map showing the present day Northern border area of Germany and Poland at the Baltic Sea coast, with Greifswald in the North West and Stargard in the South East.
- Some mainly marginal waterstains; sl. yellowed.
- Probably laid down (not examined outside frame); a few old creases along central fold.
- Slightly yellowed; a few tiny brown stains; closed tear in upper blank margin.
= Van der Krogt/ Koeman IIIB, 2000H:31B; Van den Broecke 200.
- Outer margins worn/ restored.
= Decorative map, w. num. small coats of arms. Van der Krogt/ Koeman I, 2330:1.1.
AND 2 others, an 18th cent. map and a plan of (a part of) Germany.
- Sl. yellowed. = Koeman/ Van der Krogt 2445:2.
- Doubled; green borders partly cracked due to oxidation; a few closed tears. = Koeman III, p.212[8].
- From the library of J. Ploos van Amstel w. his owner's entry on upper pastedown. Lacks 2 views (no.51 and 52) and first free endpaper.
- Doubled; sl. yellowed.
= Showing Westminster including the old palace of Westminster and Westminster Abbey (named under "St Peter's Cathedral") and St James's park with inset "Buckingham House" (now "Palace").
- Both folded once.
= Two complimentary maps that can be joined together to form a map of England and Wales.
- Laid down on board. = SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXXII.