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A virtually encyclopaedic history and description of Spain and Portugal

[ALVAREZ DE COLMENAR, Juan].
Beschryving van Spanjen en Portugal; Waar in, Op het naauwkeurigste, al het geene, dat, zoo ten opzigte van hunnen ouden, als tegenwoordigen staat, aanmerkens-waardig, noodig en vermaakelijk om te weeten is, verhaald en door kunstige Print-verbeeldingen en Land-kaarten aangeweezen werd; Dienende daar-en-boven, voor een kort begrijp der voornaamste Geschiedenissen, Staats-gevallen, Regten,  Zeden en Gewoontens deezer magtige Koningrijken, En eyndelijk, tot een duydelijke Weg-wijzer, om alle der zelver landschappen, grens-paalen, steeden, vlekken en dorpen, op het kortste, veyligste en gemakkelijkste, te bereyzen.

With richly engraved allegorical frontispiece, full-page engraved dedication, and large engraved vignette on title by J. Goeree, title printed in red and black, fine engraved large vignette at the end showing work in the field around a rich corn-barn and put within rich allegorical ornamental borders with in centre of lower border the Dutch Lion holding the coat-of-arms of Leyden, large folding engraved general map  of Spain and Portugal, and 164 almost half-page engravings in  text with regional maps, plans, views, and costumes.

With richly engraved allegorical frontispiece, full-page engraved dedication, and large engraved vignette on title by J. Goeree, title printed in red and black, fine engraved large vignette at the end showing work in the field around a rich corn-barn and put within rich allegorical ornamental borders with in centre of lower border the Dutch Lion holding the coat-of-arms of Leyden, large folding engraved general map  of Spain and Portugal, and 164 almost half-page engravings in  text with regional maps, plans, views, and costumes.

With richly engraved allegorical frontispiece, full-page engraved dedication, and large engraved vignette on title by J. Goeree, title printed in red and black, fine engraved large vignette at the end showing work in the field around a rich corn-barn and put within rich allegorical ornamental borders with in centre of lower border the Dutch Lion holding the coat-of-arms of Leyden, large folding engraved general map  of Spain and Portugal, and 164 almost half-page engravings in  text with regional maps, plans, views, and costumes.

With richly engraved allegorical frontispiece, full-page engraved dedication, and large engraved vignette on title by J. Goeree, title printed in red and black, fine engraved large vignette at the end showing work in the field around a rich corn-barn and put within rich allegorical ornamental borders with in centre of lower border the Dutch Lion holding the coat-of-arms of Leyden, large folding engraved general map  of Spain and Portugal, and 164 almost half-page engravings in  text with regional maps, plans, views, and costumes.

With richly engraved allegorical frontispiece, full-page engraved dedication, and large engraved vignette on title by J. Goeree, title printed in red and black, fine engraved large vignette at the end showing work in the field around a rich corn-barn and put within rich allegorical ornamental borders with in centre of lower border the Dutch Lion holding the coat-of-arms of Leyden, large folding engraved general map  of Spain and Portugal, and 164 almost half-page engravings in  text with regional maps, plans, views, and costumes.



Leyden, Pieter vander Aa, 1707. 5 parts in 1 vol. Folio. Contemporary marbled calf, spine ribbed and richly gilt with dark-brown title-label, red mottled edges. With richly engraved allegorical frontispiece, full-page engraved dedication, and large engraved vignette on title by J. Goeree, title printed in red and black, fine engraved large vignette at the end showing work in the field around a rich corn-barn and put within rich allegorical ornamental borders with in centre of lower border the Dutch Lion holding the coat-of-arms of Leyden, large folding engraved general map  of Spain and Portugal, and 164 almost half-page engravings in  text with regional maps, plans, views, and costumes. (16), 80; 84; 128; 52; 56, (64) pp.

First edition of an encyclopaedic history and description of Spain and Portugal. The present Dutch edition was published in folio, while the original French edition was published simultaneously in small octavo, by Pieter vander Aa at Leyden, to match his great publication of Dutch translations of all non-Dutch voyages through history. Like the voyages, the present work on Spain and Portugal was richly illustrated with maps and engraved plates from the enormous stock Vander Aa had accumulated over the years through his own draughtsmen and engravers, as well as acquired from sales and take-overs.
The author probably was a Frenchman residing in the Netherlands, who took the Spanish name of Alvarez de Colmenar for the work he wrote under the French title "Les Délices de  l'Espagne et du Portugal", probably on the request of the publisher  himself. It later served as the base for the "Annales d'Espagne et de Portugal", also published at Amsterdam, in 1741. The extensive index added to the present work virtually presents, as proudly pointed out by the publisher in his preface, a complete geographical and historical dictionary of Spain and Portugal.

Good copy.- (Binding sl. rubbed, spine rep., top of spine and front hinge broken).
Tiele 123; Palau 212; NUC lists 3 copies.

Related Subjects: Cartography  Europe  Portugal  Spain 

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