Lot 61
  • 61

Blaeu, Johannes.

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Description

  • Theatre des etats de son altesse royale le duc de Savoye [Piedmont and Savoy]. The Hague: A. Moetjens, 1700
2 volumes, folio (550 x 345mm.), additional engraved titles, printed titles in red and black, 2 portraits, allegorical plate and 140 double-page or folding plates showing town plans, views, panoramas and elevations engraved by Johannes de Ram, Romein de Hooghe, and others, contemporary hand colour, initials and head- and tail-peices fully coloured, contemporary diced calf, covers detached, spine rubbed

Provenance

acquired by Sir Patrick Geddes (1854-1932), best known as the father of town-planning; thence by descent to his son Dr Arthur Geddes (geographer) married to Jeannie Collin, great-grand-daughter of Elisee Reclus (French geographer and friend of Patrick Geddes); thence to their four children, the current owners

Literature

Koeman I. Bl 81 & 82

Condition

Condition is described in the main body of the cataloguing, where appropriate
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