STOOPENDAAL, Daniel (1672-1726). Het verheerlykt Watergraefs of Diemer-meer beschreven door M: Brouërius van Nidek... en door... Stopendael vertoont in zyne lusthoven wegen en maliebaen. Amsterdam: Andries and Hendrick de Leth, [circa 1725].

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STOOPENDAAL, Daniel (1672-1726). Het verheerlykt Watergraefs of Diemer-meer beschreven door M: Brouërius van Nidek... en door... Stopendael vertoont in zyne lusthoven wegen en maliebaen. Amsterdam: Andries and Hendrick de Leth, [circa 1725].

Oblong 4° (229 x 277mm). Engraved throughout, each leaf titled in Dutch and French. Title, 2 plans (numbered/lettered A and 2) and 57 views (numbered/lettered 3B, 4-60). (Small hole in inner margin of 3B.) Old boards, early shaped manuscript title label (backstrip and extremities worn).

A fine collection of plates recording in some detail the houses and perhaps more interestingly the gardens of this affluent suburb of Amsterdam. Cf. Berlin Kat. 2246 (2) (with text and variant lay-out); cf. Hollstein XXVIII p.145. Sold as a collection of plates, not subject to return.

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