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MERIAN, Matthaeus (1593-1650). Topographia Galliae dat ist Een Algemeene en naeukeurige Lant en Plaets-beschrijvinghe van het Machtige Koninckrijk Vranckryck. Amsterdam: Joost Broersz and Caspar Merian, 1660-1663.
4 volumes, folio (308 x 197mm). Engraved additional titles, 325 engraved views, town plans and maps (comprising: 20 maps [2 folding, 18 double-page], 260 town views and plans [14 folding, 210 double-page]). (11 plates with tears or small holes affecting image area, some others small marginal tears, some spotting or browning to text and plates.) Cotemporary Dutch blind-stamped vellum over pasteboard, early manuscript titling on spines (some bowing to covers, ties lacking). Provenance: Paul de Berthou (inscriptions).
First edition in Dutch: apparently scarcer than the German edition of 1655-1661, and less prone to that edition's frequent browning of the paper. Cf. Brunet V.1530 (listed under Zeiller); sold not subject to return. (4)
4 volumes, folio (308 x 197mm). Engraved additional titles, 325 engraved views, town plans and maps (comprising: 20 maps [2 folding, 18 double-page], 260 town views and plans [14 folding, 210 double-page]). (11 plates with tears or small holes affecting image area, some others small marginal tears, some spotting or browning to text and plates.) Cotemporary Dutch blind-stamped vellum over pasteboard, early manuscript titling on spines (some bowing to covers, ties lacking). Provenance: Paul de Berthou (inscriptions).
First edition in Dutch: apparently scarcer than the German edition of 1655-1661, and less prone to that edition's frequent browning of the paper. Cf. Brunet V.1530 (listed under Zeiller); sold not subject to return. (4)