Nouveau theatre d’Italie, ou description exacte de ses villes, palais, eglises, &c. et les cartes geographiques de toutes ses provinces. … / Sur les desseins de feu Monsieur Jean Blaeu, …
Joan Blaeu (1596 - 1673)
Category
Books
Date
1704
Materials
Place of origin
Amsterdam
Collection
Wimpole, Cambridgeshire
NT 3156489
Summary
Bibliographic description
4 v., [2], LXXVIII; [2], LXXV plates (some folded) : maps, plans ; fol. Pencil “106/4” on vol. 1 front pastedown. Some of the plate numbers have been added in manuscript in vols. 1 and 4. Provenance: manuscript inscription on vol. 1 flyleaf: Katherine Blount. Price of 1. 2. 3. 4. Vol: 10ll./ 1705/. Manuscript inscription on vols. 2-4 flyleaves: Katherine Blount 1705. Binding: early eighteenth-century sprinkled, panelled, sheep over boards on seven raised cords, gilt spine tooling and numbering, dark red spine title labels (missing on vols. 1 and 3, loose on vol. 4), triple blind fillet with inner rectangular compartment and cornerpiece design on covers (snake effect painted line between compartments on covers), red and brown sprinkled edges.
Makers and roles
Joan Blaeu (1596 - 1673), cartographer