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1008 - GUICCIARDINI, Lodovico, *Description of All the Netherlands; Otherwise Known as Lower Germany* [...]: With all the maps of the aforementioned lands, and many naturalistic engravings of the cities [...]. Amsterdam: W.J. Blaeu, 1612. Folio: [12]-396-[28] pp.; 94 plates (plate of the New Church in Amsterdam and Middelburg City Hall missing; general map of the Low Countries; plate of Amsterdam City Hall and Beurs loose; a few spots). Contemporary vellum, blind-stamped boards, spine with raised bands, red edges (joints beginning to split, slightly soiled). First edition of the Dutch translation by C. Kiliaan and P. Montanus. Blaeu used Cornelis Claesz.’s copperplates from the French 1609 edition, supplemented with some new ones. Not all of these new plates were already included in this 1612 copy. Copy illustrated with the full-page coat of arms of the Seventeen Provinces and with 98 views and maps on 94 ff., mostly double-page, including, among others, Brussels, Antwerp, Leuven, Roermond, Dordrecht, Luxembourg, Douai, Aalst, etc. Ref. Guicciardini illustratus 11. - STCN.
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GUICCIARDINI, Lodovico, *Description of All the Netherlands; Otherwise Known as Lower Germany* [...]: With all the maps of the aforementioned lands, and many naturalistic engravings of the cities [...]. Amsterdam: W.J. Blaeu, 1612. Folio: [12]-396-[28] pp.; 94 plates (plate of the New Church in Amsterdam and Middelburg City Hall missing; general map of the Low Countries; plate of Amsterdam City Hall and Beurs loose; a few spots). Contemporary vellum, blind-stamped boards, spine with raised bands, red edges (joints beginning to split, slightly soiled). First edition of the Dutch translation by C. Kiliaan and P. Montanus. Blaeu used Cornelis Claesz.’s copperplates from the French 1609 edition, supplemented with some new ones. Not all of these new plates were already included in this 1612 copy. Copy illustrated with the full-page coat of arms of the Seventeen Provinces and with 98 views and maps on 94 ff., mostly double-page, including, among others, Brussels, Antwerp, Leuven, Roermond, Dordrecht, Luxembourg, Douai, Aalst, etc. Ref. Guicciardini illustratus 11. - STCN.
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