5858 - 6000 FINE ARTS - FOREIGN TOPOGRAPHY. MAPS, PLANS and VIEWS
- Lower (blank) margin sl. dogeared.
- Sl. foxed/ yellowed (mainly) in blank margins; verso margins strengthened w. paper tape.
= Van der Krogt/ Koeman IV-2/1, 733: 1st state (of 2): "without the dated note, compass rose unfinished".
"Tarvisina Marchia et Tirolis comitatus." Partly handcol. engr. map, dec. cartouche, 35x44 cm., Amst., Mercator/ Hondius, 1619.
- Trifle browned.
= Van der Krogt/ Koeman I, 7012:1.1. Rare. Shows i.a. the Lago di Garda and Venice.
"Territorio di Cremona". Handcol. engr. map, 2 dec. cartouches, 37,5x48,5 cm., ibid., H. Hondius, 1636.
- Vague waterstain in upper right corner; tear in lower margin just affecting the image.
= Van der Krogt/ Koeman II, 7030:1.1.
- Trimmed to the border line. Good copy.
= Map of Italy after the fall of Napoleon and the Congress of Vienna (1815).
- Both ends of middle fold splitting; 2 very vague waterstains (mainly) visible on verso.
= Van der Krogt/ Koeman IV-2.1, 1143: 1st state (of 3). Very rare view of Dronero.
- Vertical crease in right part along middle fold.
"Ducatus Mantuani, ceu Sedis belli 1733-1735 recentissima delineatio (...)". Partly handcol. engr. map, 49,6x57,3 cm., ibid., idem, 1735.
- Frayed in lower margin; oblique crease in left part.
AND 1 other: "Charte von Cisalpinien" (partly handcol. engr. map by F.L. GÜSSEFELD, ibid, 1798. Waterst. and sl. yellowed).
- Letterpress title foxed; lithogr. plates sl. foxed; hinges weak. Top of spine restored; foot of spine chipped; backstrip worn.
= Rare complete series of the plates to Isabey's Voyage en Italie, consisting of fine views in (the surroundings of) i.a. Rome, Naples, Pisa, Florence, Venice, Paestum, Salerno, Tivoli, Lago Maggiore, Cadenabia and Parma. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXXX.
- Dustsoiled; sl. stained and foxed; one plan w. large waterstain.
= Attractively coloured plans of an unidentified Italian estate. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXXX.
AND 2 other manuscript plans of estates, both Italian, 1x dated 1795, i.a. mentioning a "Recinto e casa di Luca Kurt" (both folded).
- Two vertical creases in right part next to middle fold.
= Detailed map of Northern Italy, showing the Piemonte region as well as Genova, Milano, Savoie etc.
- All leaves folded once, but apparently never used for publication.
= Le Blanc 1-23; Hollstein 27-76 (2 set of 25 plates); Rossetti 2265; Kissner collection 109; Schudt 555. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXXXI.
- Closed tear on middle-fold. = Spectaculair view of the Piazza San Marco in Venice, seen from the Grand Canal.
- Good/ fine map of Japan and adjacent parts of Korea and China with 6 inset maps, published for the English speaking tourist market.
- Creased, frayed and dustsoiled. = Blackmer 295. Incl. the fold. panoramic view of Jerusalem.
- Ample margins; 2 closed tears in outer blank margins. = Van der Krogt/ Koeman I, 3380:1B.1.
- Small tear on 1 green col. border line caused by oxidation; otherwise a fine map.
= Quite rare.
AND 1 other similar: "Trevirensis Archiepiscopatus, et Lutzenburgi Ducatus" (handcol. engr. map, ibid., W. and J. Blaeu, ±1640).
- Apart from some minor marginal defects a fine set.
= Poortman/ Augusteijn 84-89, 5th and final state (only the year of publication changed throughout the states).
- Middle-fold; waterst. in lower left corner (just touching image).
AND 1 other woodcut map from the same work "Das heilig Lande mit Ausztheilung der zwoelff Geschlechter" (upper left corner torn off, touching the borderline).
- Three sm. tears in upper/ lower blank margins.
"Ansicht vom todten Meer." Etching and aquatint by G. DÖBLER, 27,5x37,5 cm., from L.N.P.A. DE FORBIN, Reise nach dem Morgenland, Prague, P. Bohmanns Erben, 1823.
- Lower blank corner creased.
- Middle fold strengthened at both ends on verso; sm. closed tear in right margin, reaching into image; trifle yellowed.
= Laor 860.