![BLAEU, Joan (1596-1673). Novum ac Magnum Theatrum Urbiium Belgicae Foederate [-- Regiae]. Amsterdam: Johannes Blaeu [1652]. 2 volumes, 2° (552 x 356mm). Text in Latin. Engraved armorial titles with letterpress labels, 225 engraved maps, views and plans, one of these folding, and the majority double-page. (Some maps with tear at the fold not reaching the image, occasional faint mostly marginal dampstain, some light creasing, short marginal wormtrack in a few text leaves, light marginal soiling.) Contemporary vellum panelled in gilt with central lozenge (sides bowing, one joint starting at the head, lacking cloth ties, some soiling, volume 2 without the rear free endpaper).](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2013/CKS/2013_CKS_01186_0313_000(blaeu_joan_novum_ac_magnum_theatrum_urbiium_belgicae_foederate_--_regi011926).jpg?w=1)
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BLAEU, Joan (1596-1673). Novum ac Magnum Theatrum Urbiium Belgicae Foederate [-- Regiae]. Amsterdam: Johannes Blaeu [1652]. 2 volumes, 2° (552 x 356mm). Text in Latin. Engraved armorial titles with letterpress labels, 225 engraved maps, views and plans, one of these folding, and the majority double-page. (Some maps with tear at the fold not reaching the image, occasional faint mostly marginal dampstain, some light creasing, short marginal wormtrack in a few text leaves, light marginal soiling.) Contemporary vellum panelled in gilt with central lozenge (sides bowing, one joint starting at the head, lacking cloth ties, some soiling, volume 2 without the rear free endpaper).
BLAEU'S CELEBRATED TOWN BOOK. 'Of all the Blaeu atlases, the town atlases of the Netherlands are held in the highest esteem in the Netherlands... Bound up, by sentiment, with the most dramatic and heroic period of the shaping of the Dutch State, it shows the proud and industrious cities of the North in their full splendour' (Koeman). The third Latin edition, with 225 engravings, as per Koeman, although volume one is without 'Silva Ducis' (plate 83) as the copy in Delft, but with an additional map of Amsterdam (Amsterdam 51:B) bound after plate 23, also found in the copy at the Royal Library, Brussels. Koeman 43:113.1-2. (2)
BLAEU'S CELEBRATED TOWN BOOK. 'Of all the Blaeu atlases, the town atlases of the Netherlands are held in the highest esteem in the Netherlands... Bound up, by sentiment, with the most dramatic and heroic period of the shaping of the Dutch State, it shows the proud and industrious cities of the North in their full splendour' (Koeman). The third Latin edition, with 225 engravings, as per Koeman, although volume one is without 'Silva Ducis' (plate 83) as the copy in Delft, but with an additional map of Amsterdam (Amsterdam 51:B) bound after plate 23, also found in the copy at the Royal Library, Brussels. Koeman 43:113.1-2. (2)
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