Les delices de la Hollande [...]. Nouvelle edition, considérablement corrigée & augmentée. Tome premier.

[PARIVAL, Jean Nicolas de]

€ 150 / 250

Live bidding (Drouot*) Live bidding (Invaluable*)

Bidding is closed

Lot description

The Hague, Widow H. van Dole, 1726

12mo: [front.-18]-452-[4] pp. (min. browning, occ. light staining).

Contemp. calf (sl. rubbed), gilt spine with 5 raised bands (front joint split, sm. def. at head & tail). Good copy.

Popular guide to Holland by de Parival (1605-1669) (1st Leiden 1651). Engr. ill.: front., 1 folding map of Holland ("Comitatus Hollandiae"), 32 double page or folding pl. showing city plans (Leiden, Amsterdam, Haarlem, Delft, Dordrecht, Gouda, Rotterdam, The Hague, Alkmaar, Medenblik, Enkhuizen and Hoorn), views of castles ("Maison du Bois" at The Hague, "Chateau de Ryswick", "Chateau Sorgvliet", etc.) and fortification plans (Gorcum, Nieuwpoort, Den Briel, Worcum & Loevestein, Klundert, etc.), and 1 folding pl. "Divertissemens des Hollandois pendant la Gelée". Title in red & black. Woodcut mark on title.
Ref. Tiele 847 (note). - STCN (4). - Not in BL.