Live auction - Lot 1021

[Netherlands - Friesland]

ALTING, Menso

Descriptio secundum antiquos, agri Batavi & Frisii, una cum conterminis. Sive Notitia germaniae Inferioris, cis & ultra Rhenum, qua hodie est in dicione VII-Foederatorum. Repraesentata tabulis geographicis V. & commentario [...].

Amsterdam, H. Wetstein, 1697

€ 250 / 300

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Folio: [20 (of 24)]-132-[16] pp. (lacking engr. title and List of plates; bottom corner dampstained).

Cont. blind-stamped vellum, spine on 7 raised bands with gilt leather label, red edges (sl. soiled, front joint splitting at tail). Good copy.

History of the topography and antiquities of the Northern Low Countries by the Groningen alderman Alting (1636-1712). Engr. ill.: 1 (of 6) double-page plates by Luyken, 3 full-page pls, and 5 sm. pls in text. Title in red and black. Ref. Klaversma/Hannema (Luyken) 50-51 (ext. descr.). - STCN 841733023. - Tiele 36-37. Prov. Presentation copy “Ex donatione Authoris 29 April. A° 1702” (bottom of front endpaper). Bound with: Id. - Descriptio Frisiae inter Scaldis portum veterem & Amisiam, seu inter Sine & Emese secundum Medii Aevi scriptores [...]. Amsterdam, H. Wetstein, sold by R. & G. Wetstein, 1701. [32]-216-[32]-18-[14] pp. (the "18" pp. about the "Tabula Ptolemaica" erroneously bound between Hh4-Ii1). Ill. with 9 double-page plates and a double-page table (between pp. 72-73). Ref. STCN 841732922.

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Lot 1021

Descriptio secundum antiquos, agri Batavi & Frisii, una cum conterminis. Sive Notitia germaniae Inferioris, cis & ultra Rhenum, qua hodie est in dicione VII-Foederatorum. Repraesentata tabulis geographicis V. & commentario [...].

ALTING, Menso

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