6000 - 6086 FINE ARTS - FOREIGN TOPOGRAPHY. MAPS, PLANS and VIEWS
- Mounted on board; partly sl. browned, mostly in blank margins, otherwise fine.
"Parte del Palazzo Pontificio nel Quirinale fatto dalla felice memoria di Paolo V. Architettura di Flaminio Pontio l'anno MDCX. Il Pontefice Urbano VIII Vi aggiunse la Loggia della Benedittione disegno del cavalier Gio. Lorenzo Bernino fatta l'anno MDCXXXV". Engr. by P. FERRERIO, 22x35 cm., ±1700.
- Sm. tear in lower blank margin, just reaching image; sl. browned along outer edges.
= From P. Ferrerio, Palazzi di Roma de piu celebri architetti, disegnati da Pietro Ferrerio pittore et architetto (Roma, n.d.).
AND ±400 miscellaneous others, various sizes, incl. a few duplicates.
- On verso of most plates children's drawings with i.a. spraying techniques.
AND 12 engr. views of Sicily from Voyage pittoresque de Naples et de Sicilie (1781-1785) and ±50 plates from the series Principali monumenti di Roma by A. MOSCHETTI.
- Middle-fold (as published?); some marginal tears (1x just affecting the borderline); some surface dam. due to silverfish; sl. foxed.
- All folded; partly still bound together; browned/ foxed.
= Showing different countries in Africa and Europe.
- Binding sl. worn; spine dried; spine-ends chipped; corners showing.
= Cat. NHSM I, p.57 and 62: "De kaartjes zijn ten dele ontleend aan Michelot's gids voor de Middellande zee." Rare. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE C.
= Arena of the Austro-Prussian war.
ADDED: "Carte Spéciale de la Suisse Saxonne. Specialkarte der Sächsischen Schweiz". Fold. handcol. lithogr. map by J.H. KLAHR after M. VON SÜSSMILCH, 50x44 cm., Dresden, R. Kuntze, ±1870.
- Some handling creases, otherwise fine.
= From J. Rousset de Missy, Oorlogskundige Beschryving Van De Veldslagen, En Belegeringen (...).
"Siège de Douay. 4 Juillet 1667". Steelengraving by AUBERT after VANDERMEULEN 18,1x27,6 cm., ±1840.
- Sl. foxed. = From C. Gavard, Galeries Historiques de Versailles.
AND 41 other 18-20th cent. plans/ plates of battlegrounds and battlescenes.
- Hinges breaking; maps occas. sl. yellowed/ thumbed. Spine dam.
= Poortman I, p. 251-264.
- Sl. yellowed; former green colouring turned brown.
= Rare map showing postal routes over a large part of central Europe.
- Both w. folds (as published).
= From P. VAN WOENSEL, Rusland beschouwd met betrekking tot (...) Zijne aardrijkskundige en natuurlijke ligging (...) Zijne hoofdstad St. Petersburg (...) Zijne politieke belangen (Haarlem, 1804. Tiele 1227). P. van Woensel (1747-1808) was resident as medical doctor in St. Petersburg in the 1770s.
- Somewhat browned.
= Koeman/ Van der Krogt 1210:1A 113. Very decorative map. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE CI.
- Vertical creases near centerfold and on right side; closed tear in right and left margin just affecting the image; sl. waterst. in lower blank margin; sl. dustsoiled; a few sm. brown stains.
= Rare chart reaching from Cabo Prieto in the east to Cabo Ortegal, the northernmost landmark of Spain.
- Sl. foxed in blank margins; (sl.) frayed along edges.
= Comprises ''Monasterio de las Huelgas de Burgos'', ''El Mirador de Toledo vistas desde el Puente del San Martin'', ''Entrada del Coro en la Clausura del Monasterio de las Huelgas de Burgos'', ''Escalera del Hospital de St. Crux en Toledo'', ''Interior del Coro de las Huelgas de Burgos'' and ''Capilla del Cristo de la Luz en Toledo''.
- Yellowed/ sl. browned. = Koeman/ Van der Krogt II, 6000:2B.
ADDED: "De Stadt Kinningfoe" (engr. view, 28,5x35 cm., from DAPPER, 1670).
- All views vaguely foxed and sl. dustsoiled; all w. sm. stain in outer lower blank margin.
= Plates to E.A.D.M.J. de Las Cases, Mémorial de Sainte-Hélène. Comprises: "Vue de Ste. Hélène et de James-Town prise du mouillage", "Vue de Langwood prise de Balcomb's Cottage", "Vue de la Rare Ste. Hélène, prise de hauteurs derrière Jamestown" and "Vue de la Cascade Briars".
- Sl. creased.
= Nice, sl. naive drawing of an estate near the river Demerara. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE CI.