Live auction - Lot 492
[Atlas - Belgium - Netherlands]
Toonneel des aerdrycx, ofte Nieuwe atlas [...]. Eerste deels tweede stuck.
Amsterdam, J. Blaeu, 1642
Hammer price: €
6.000
€ 7.000 / 8.000
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Lot description
Folio: [A-2Z incl. engr. title] pp.; 36 pl. (A bound after C, register f. X loose and trimmed, sm. repairs, sm. marg. wormhole, split at bottom central fold leaf F, some maps partly detached from strips).
Mod. calf, gilt-decorated spine with raised bands (a bit rubbed).
First Dutch edition, 2nd part of the 1st vol., being the complete section on the Low Countries of Blaeu's three-volume "Theatrum orbis terrarum" (1st Lat. ed. 1640). Lavishly illustrated with 36 hand-coloured maps featuring Brabant, Limburg, Luxembourg, Liège, Namur, Hainaut, Artois, Flanders, Gelderland, North- and South-Holland, Zeeland, Friesland, etc.
Ref. Van der Krogt II [2:221.1E].
Prov. Judoca J.P. van Puyenbroeck (ms. entry).