Live auction - Lot 434
[Belgium - Netherlands]
Description de touts les Pays-Bas, autrement appellez, la Germanie inferieure, ou Basse Allemagne [...]. Avec toutes les cartes geographiques desdicts pays, & plusieurs pourtraicts de villes [...] par Pierre Keere [...].
Arnhem, Joannes Janssonius, 1613
€ 800 / 1.200
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Lot description
8vo obl.: [10]-606-[38] pp. (engr. title and title cut out and pasted on, tear in *3 clumsily repaired, some sm. tears in the following lvs, some browning and spotting throughout, pl. of Deventer and Den Dam sl. cut short).
Contemp. calf (def. at covers, some restoration), gilt orn. spine on 5 raised bands (head restored).
Oblong edition of this famous iconographic description of the Low Countries. Containing a front. with coat of arms of the 17 Provinces, an engr. title and 87 (of 100) engr. plates by P. van den Keere showing city-maps, views and monuments or buildings. Lacking Brabant, Antwerp, Tiel, Friesland, Holland, Zeeland, Flanders, "Berghe de S. Winoc" (not publ.), Bourbourg, Artois, Hainaut, city of Luxembourg, County of Namur, diocese of Liège. Included are 3 extra plates (not mentionned in index): "De vismaerck", "T'huys van Mansfeld/ de Pyramide", "Den dam van Amsterdam".
ref. Guicc. Ill. nr. 13 (with description of the extra plates, rarely found). - STCN.