78/5344 [Amsterdam and surroundings]. "Plan de la grande & fameuse ville marchande d'Amsterdam. Plan van de wyd vermaarde en beroemde koop stad Amsterdam." Large engr. plan on two attached sheets, large dec. title-cartouche and many ships and buildings, 56x96 cm., Amst., J. Covens and C. Mortier, ±1725.

- Several large closed tears; sl. yellowed; publisher's address mounted in cartouche.

= Unique copy of the edition listed under Hameleers 104 (4th ed. (of 6)) and d'Ailly 267 or 313, with numerous manuscript and watercolour addtions by Antonius Grave, and with an extensive manuscript legend and explanation attached to the lower margin of the plan and signed and dated "Amsterdam, 14 Maart 1760". The additions by Grave concern the creation of a new waterrefreshing plan. His plan is headed: "Plan en Project. Ter bekooming Eener Directe doorgaande Circulering en Verversing door de Grachte, en Canaele, der Stadt Amsterdam". The manuscript legend refers to new sluices to be built, at various entry points of the canals, as well as the building of several new mills (illustrated on the map by two small drawings in watercolour and pen and ink of mills) and spillways [overlaten] etc. In one of his manuscript notes Grave writes: "De Onkoste van dit Project, zullen zoo Excessief, en Groot niet zijn Geproportioneert, tegen het Nut, en Verversing die men daardoor bekomt, Ten Voordeele der Gesontheijd, Voor het Algemeen." Grave's design is also known from other maps that Hameleers lists, see Hameleers 81 ("Het Stadsarchief Amsterdam beheert een exemplaar van de kaart (Amstelodami Novissima Delineatio (Schenk/ Erven Greeve] waaraan ter linkerzijde een blad is bijgeplakt. Hierop staat het waterverversingsplan voor de grachtenbeschreven dat Antonie Grave in de jaren 1758-1760 ontwierp. Deze kaart is in manuscript bijgetekend (...)").