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MATTHAEUS MERIAN (1593-1650) AND MARTIN ZEILER (1589-1661)
Topographia Saxoniae Inferioris. Frankfurt: Mattheus Merian, 1653. Engraved title, 40 (of 41) engraved views, maps and plans, some folding. (Lacking the plate of Steuerwald/Stoerlinburg, worming at gutter and fore-edge of first two gatherings and just into image of engraved title, one other plate affected by tiny wormhole.) [Bound with:] -- Topographia ... Braunschweig und Lüneburg. Frankfurt: Matthaeus Merian's heirs, 1654 (but c.1660). Engraved title, 2 double-page tables and 131 (of 135) engraved views, maps and plans, some folding. (Lacking pp.III-IV, and plates Münden An der Werra, Ölber Am Weissen Wege Adel Sitz/Closter Reinhausen/Steterburg Ruinirtes Closter, Freudenberg/Faste/Frestede and Flecken Gibelhausen/Gartow Adelicher Sitz/Schwachhausen, small patch of worming at gutter not affecting plates, map of Harburg loose and frayed tiny hole in plate of Ohsen, plate Fallersleben with tear to fold but without loss.) 2 works in one volume, 4° (335 x 205mm). Contemporary vellum, titled in manuscript on spine, red edges (extremities rubbed).
FIRST EDITION of the first named work, and second edition of the second. With fine views of Hamburg, Bremen, Lübeck, Hildesheim, and other German cities. Wüthrich IV, 60 and 64. Sold as a collection of plates, not subject to return.
Topographia Saxoniae Inferioris. Frankfurt: Mattheus Merian, 1653. Engraved title, 40 (of 41) engraved views, maps and plans, some folding. (Lacking the plate of Steuerwald/Stoerlinburg, worming at gutter and fore-edge of first two gatherings and just into image of engraved title, one other plate affected by tiny wormhole.) [Bound with:] -- Topographia ... Braunschweig und Lüneburg. Frankfurt: Matthaeus Merian's heirs, 1654 (but c.1660). Engraved title, 2 double-page tables and 131 (of 135) engraved views, maps and plans, some folding. (Lacking pp.III-IV, and plates Münden An der Werra, Ölber Am Weissen Wege Adel Sitz/Closter Reinhausen/Steterburg Ruinirtes Closter, Freudenberg/Faste/Frestede and Flecken Gibelhausen/Gartow Adelicher Sitz/Schwachhausen, small patch of worming at gutter not affecting plates, map of Harburg loose and frayed tiny hole in plate of Ohsen, plate Fallersleben with tear to fold but without loss.) 2 works in one volume, 4° (335 x 205mm). Contemporary vellum, titled in manuscript on spine, red edges (extremities rubbed).
FIRST EDITION of the first named work, and second edition of the second. With fine views of Hamburg, Bremen, Lübeck, Hildesheim, and other German cities. Wüthrich IV, 60 and 64. Sold as a collection of plates, not subject to return.
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