Jun 14, 2007 - Sale 2118

Sale 2118 - Lot 2

Price Realized: $ 38,400
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 40,000 - $ 60,000
BLAEU, WILLEM and JAN. Nieuw Vermeerderd en Verbeterd Groot Stedeboek van Piemont en van Savoye. 4 engraved additional titles, engraved arms, engraved genealogical table, 4 portraits, 139 engraved maps, plans and views (some views double-sheet but counted as one). 4 volumes. Folio, 545x350 mm, contemporary uniform vellum, slightly soiled, several covers very lightly bowed; internally quite bright and clean, with some minor finger-soiling. The Hague: Rutgert Christoffel Alberts, 1725
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First issued by Blaev's heirs in 1682 as part of a series of townbooks of Italy, this reissue by Alberts includes finely detailed plates of Piedmont and the Savoy. Issued in a number of languages, this lovely set is in the native Dutch. Koeman I, Bl 107 and 108.