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VERBIST, Pierre. Description de touts les Pays Bas ... avec toutes les cartes geographiques desdits pays. Antwerp: Pierre Verbist, 1636 [1650].
8° (171 x 107mm). Engraved double-page title with date altered to 1650 and 19 double-page engraved maps, all coloured by hand and on guards, letterpress title dated 1636, the date altered by hand to 1646, woodcut and type-ornament head- and tailpieces. (Neat tears at fold of title, occasional light spotting affecting one plate.) Contemporary flexible vellum, lacking two fore-edge ties. Provenance: Franciscus Gommarus de Henghsthousn (medical doctor, title inscription dated 1662); J. van Werchler (inscription on flyleaf).
Apparently a variant of the FIRST EDITION, corresponding with Koeman's Verb 1, except for the dates on both titles altered by hand to later years, and the letterpress title with minor variants. A rare and charming atlas, of which Koeman locates only one copy. Editions were also printed in 1644 and 1652. Koeman Verb 1; not in Phillips or Nordenskiöld.
8° (171 x 107mm). Engraved double-page title with date altered to 1650 and 19 double-page engraved maps, all coloured by hand and on guards, letterpress title dated 1636, the date altered by hand to 1646, woodcut and type-ornament head- and tailpieces. (Neat tears at fold of title, occasional light spotting affecting one plate.) Contemporary flexible vellum, lacking two fore-edge ties. Provenance: Franciscus Gommarus de Henghsthousn (medical doctor, title inscription dated 1662); J. van Werchler (inscription on flyleaf).
Apparently a variant of the FIRST EDITION, corresponding with Koeman's Verb 1, except for the dates on both titles altered by hand to later years, and the letterpress title with minor variants. A rare and charming atlas, of which Koeman locates only one copy. Editions were also printed in 1644 and 1652. Koeman Verb 1; not in Phillips or Nordenskiöld.