$1,875
Amsterdam: Nicolaus Visscher, 1719. Oblong 4to, quarter calf over marbled boards, gilt-lettered red leather spine label, title page in Dutch and French. Rare second printing of the first edition of one of the finest plate books on eighteenth-century Dutch villas, of great importance to landscape design, with folding map of the River Vecht and 102 half-page engraved plates (24 hand-colored) depicting the homes and gardens along the river belonging to the wealthy families of Amsterdam and Utrecht, drawn from nature by Stoopendaal. Plates numbered 1-98, but there are four extra views of the House Driemond as 94a-d. Two editions were printed in 1719; the first with 98 plates, the second, and preferred, presented here, with 102, and two statues behind the hedge in plate 94. Lacking frontispiece engraving and all text save the title page, which is present; minor wear to boards, with loss at corners and ends; endpapers creased; repaired tear to fold-out map and title page; minor intermittent spotting.
Auctioneer:
Leslie Hindman Auctioneers
Date:
2013-08-07