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BLAEU, Willem Janszoon (1571-1638). Nouveau theatre d'Italie . The Hague: Rutgert Alberts, 1724.
BLAEU, Willem Janszoon (1571-1638). Nouveau theatre d'Italie . The Hague: Rutgert Alberts, 1724. 4 volumes, 2° (563 x 255mm). Additional engraved titles, titles in red and black with engraved vignettes, engraved head- and tailpieces, 281 maps, views and prints (vol. I with 79 numbered I-LXXVIII with map 1 not numbered; vol. II with 75 numbered I-LXXV; vol. III with 40 numbered 1-37 and vol. IV with 87 numbered I-LXXIX with the prints 80-87 added by Alberts not numbered), all mounted on guards. (Occasional light spotting to text, a few light creases, repaired tear on verso of plate LXXII in vol. IV not affecting plate.) Contemporary calf, titles on spine labels, speckled edges and marbled endpapers (neatly rebacked and somewhat restored, some rubbing to extremities, some small chips and scuff marks). Provenance : Ferdinand von Plettenberg (1690-1737; neat inscription on titles dated 1734) — Dukes of Arenberg, Nordkirchen castle (mid-19th-century armorial bookplate combining the Plettenberg and Esterhazy-Galantha coats-of-arms). SECOND EDITION. A FINE COPY COMPLETE IN ALL ITS PARTS . The work was first published by Mortier 1704-1705 and then re-issued in 1724 by Rutger Alberts. Like Mortier, Alberts made editions with Dutch, French and Latin texts. The work includes fine very large panoramic views of Genoa, Venice, and Naples, with many other detailed plates depicting charming Italian towns. Volume I covers Lombardy; volume II the Papal States; volume III Naples and Sicily and volume IV Ancient and Modern Rome, including the sequence of plates originally from Athanasius Kircher's work on the obelisks, Obeliscus Pamphilius (1650). Koeman I, Bl 88-102; Phillips 8945; Van der Krogt 43:232.1-4.