47 - [France]. BLAEU, Guillaume & Jean.

[France]. BLAEU, Guillaume & Jean. [Seventh & Eighth Volumes of the Blavian Geography, containing the first part of Book XIV on Europe]. (Amsterdam: Jean Blaeu, 1663). 2 large folio volumes (56 x 34 cm). Ivory-colored vellum, embossed and gilt from the period; spine with 7 decorated raised bands; covers adorned with large embossed plates; gilt edges (bindings soiled and occasionally slightly cracked; missing: pp. 215–216 with a map of the Region and County of Cambrésis, the General Map of the Lyon Region, the title and half-title pages; marginal defects including water stains and wormholes affecting the leaves; some maps have browned). A fine, color-illustrated copy of the volumes on France from Blaeu’s Great Atlas, bound in strictly period Dutch gilt vellum. As noted by Van der Krogt and in the case of our copy: maps of Switzerland should be found at the end of Volume VIII (Part 2), but some copies circulate separately as an atlas of France alone, without the Swiss section. The set contains 66 beautiful double-page maps, hand-colored at the time; including two rare maps that do not belong to the atlas: -A map of Gaul by Visscher, inserted into the first volume. -A map of the Lake Geneva region in Switzerland, inserted in the second volume, *Ducatus Chablasius et Lacus Lemanus Cum Regionibus adjacentibus*. Taken from Blaeu’s map of Savoy and Piedmont, *Theatrum Statuum Regiae Celsitudinis Sabaudiae Ducis, Pedemontii Principis*.... Map engraved by Joannes de Broen (1659–1730) and published by Blaeu’s heirs based on the map by Giovanni Tommaso Borgonio (1620–1683). Separate maps from this volume are rarely available on the market. Van der Krogt, II, [2:61].