BLAEU, Willem and Johannes. Toonneel des Aerdrijcx, ofte Nieuwe Atlas . Amsterdam: Johannes Blaeu, 1649-50-48. Volumes I-IV, 2° (510 x 330mm.). Dutch text, half-title to volume I (margin torn and restored), 4 hand-coloured engraved titles, 3 heightened in gilt, letterpress title overslips to volumes II-IV, 2 section titles, heightened in gilt, 334 maps, mostly double-page, all hand-coloured in outline, with decorative coloured cartouches and coats of arms, 6 folding, illustrations, some hand-coloured. (Several maps with vertical creases near centre folds, some light staining to margins, several spotted, map of Germania with portion of lower margin torn away, a few maps with clean tears to margins at lower centre folds.) Original publisher's vellum, panelled in gilt with central gilt arabesques and corner-pieces (slightly soiled and rubbed), ties, several lacking, g.e. Koeman cf.Bl 29B; Bl 30A; Bl 39C; Bl 45B. A FINE SET of the first four volumes of the Theatrum , comprising volume I: World, Scandinavia, Eastern Europe, germany and Holland; II: France, Spain, Africa, Asia and the Americas; III: Italy, Greece, Scotland and Ireland; IV: England and Wales. The collation of this set varies considerably from Koeman's examples; volume I does not have the four replacement maps, the maps of Borysthenes and Lithuania folded as in the copy at the Royal Library, Brussels; volume II includes the map of China, has the order of the maps of Aragon and Navarre reversed, and collates similarly to Bl 28; volume III has the addition of the section title and maps of Scotland and Ireland normally bound in the 1647 Dutch issue of volume IV, cf. Bl 45B; volume IV collates according to Bl 45B, but the section of Scotland and Ireland bound in the previous volume, and the title is dated the following year. (4)
BLAEU, Willem and Johannes. Toonneel des Aerdrijcx, ofte Nieuwe Atlas . Amsterdam: Johannes Blaeu, 1649-50-48. Volumes I-IV, 2° (510 x 330mm.). Dutch text, half-title to volume I (margin torn and restored), 4 hand-coloured engraved titles, 3 heightened in gilt, letterpress title overslips to volumes II-IV, 2 section titles, heightened in gilt, 334 maps, mostly double-page, all hand-coloured in outline, with decorative coloured cartouches and coats of arms, 6 folding, illustrations, some hand-coloured. (Several maps with vertical creases near centre folds, some light staining to margins, several spotted, map of Germania with portion of lower margin torn away, a few maps with clean tears to margins at lower centre folds.) Original publisher's vellum, panelled in gilt with central gilt arabesques and corner-pieces (slightly soiled and rubbed), ties, several lacking, g.e. Koeman cf.Bl 29B; Bl 30A; Bl 39C; Bl 45B. A FINE SET of the first four volumes of the Theatrum , comprising volume I: World, Scandinavia, Eastern Europe, germany and Holland; II: France, Spain, Africa, Asia and the Americas; III: Italy, Greece, Scotland and Ireland; IV: England and Wales. The collation of this set varies considerably from Koeman's examples; volume I does not have the four replacement maps, the maps of Borysthenes and Lithuania folded as in the copy at the Royal Library, Brussels; volume II includes the map of China, has the order of the maps of Aragon and Navarre reversed, and collates similarly to Bl 28; volume III has the addition of the section title and maps of Scotland and Ireland normally bound in the 1647 Dutch issue of volume IV, cf. Bl 45B; volume IV collates according to Bl 45B, but the section of Scotland and Ireland bound in the previous volume, and the title is dated the following year. (4)
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