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18th-century Amsterdam depicted - The famous atlas of Fouquet in its rare first edition with the text

[FOUQUET Jr., Pierre].
Nieuwe atlas van de voornaamste gebouwen en gezigten der stad Amsterdam, met derzelver beknopte beschryvingen.

With the two titles printed in red and black, one double-page plan of Amsterdam and 102 double-page engraved city views (45 in the first and 57 in the second vol.; 2 unnumbered and 1-83 and star-numbers: 3, 4, 17, 26, 28, 31, 32, 33, 36, 38, 39, 45, 46, 48, 50, 52, 61).

With the two titles printed in red and black, one double-page plan of Amsterdam and 102 double-page engraved city views (45 in the first and 57 in the second vol.; 2 unnumbered and 1-83 and star-numbers: 3, 4, 17, 26, 28, 31, 32, 33, 36, 38, 39, 45, 46, 48, 50, 52, 61).

With the two titles printed in red and black, one double-page plan of Amsterdam and 102 double-page engraved city views (45 in the first and 57 in the second vol.; 2 unnumbered and 1-83 and star-numbers: 3, 4, 17, 26, 28, 31, 32, 33, 36, 38, 39, 45, 46, 48, 50, 52, 61).

With the two titles printed in red and black, one double-page plan of Amsterdam and 102 double-page engraved city views (45 in the first and 57 in the second vol.; 2 unnumbered and 1-83 and star-numbers: 3, 4, 17, 26, 28, 31, 32, 33, 36, 38, 39, 45, 46, 48, 50, 52, 61).

With the two titles printed in red and black, one double-page plan of Amsterdam and 102 double-page engraved city views (45 in the first and 57 in the second vol.; 2 unnumbered and 1-83 and star-numbers: 3, 4, 17, 26, 28, 31, 32, 33, 36, 38, 39, 45, 46, 48, 50, 52, 61).



Amsterdam, D. J. Changuion & P. den Hengst, 1783. 2 vols. Folio. Half calf with red and green labels lettered in gold. With the two titles printed in red and black, one double-page plan of Amsterdam and 102 double-page engraved city views (45 in the first and 57 in the second vol.; 2 unnumbered and 1-83 and star-numbers: 3, 4, 17, 26, 28, 31, 32, 33, 36, 38, 39, 45, 46, 48, 50, 52, 61). Vol. 1: (2), 27; vol. 2: (1), 36 lvs.

Rare first edition of these famous townscapes of Amsterdam by the artist and art dealer Pierre Fouquet Jr. (1729-1800), bound, as usual, in two volumes with two newly added unnumbered plates and the descriptions on 27 resp. 36 leaves based on the texts of Wagenaar's Geschiedenis van Amsterdam with interesting additions concerning the years 1765-1783. Originally the plates were published separately, the first series of 10 townscapes having been issued in 1760-61 engraved by Paul van Liender and Simon Fokke after the drawings by the well-known engraver of town- and landscapes Jan de Beyer (plates nr. 4, 10, 12, 15, 45, 50, 61, 72, 52-3), followed in 1764-68 by a series of 12 scapes by Caspar Philips Jacobsz. (plates nr. 20, 22, 17-9, 21, 9, 23-4, 8, 73, 75), who also engraved the plates after J. de Vlaaming in 1768-69 (plates 27,14). The latest dated plate is from 1771 by C. Philips Jacobsz. (plate 25). 73 plates are undated, 59 of which are by the mysterious H. Schoute who never dated his engravings and seldom signed them. Other artist  who contributed to the Atlas are C. Bogerts (after H. (not N.) Keun; plate 4*), J. van der Schley after P.R. van Dijk (plate 69-70) and Coppier and Simon Fokke after six more drawings by Jan de Beyer who cooperated during more than six years.
Shortly after 1778 the plates were issued as an oblong book with a map of Amsterdam and a contents, but without any text, under the title Afbeeldingen van de wyd-vermaarde koopstad Amsterdam / Recueil des édifices les plus considerables ...
There certainly is no better source than this gorgeous atlas of Fouquet to get a clear, lively and even exiting picture of Amsterdam and its inhabitants during the 18th century. A second edition with less beautiful and reworked plates appeared in 1805 with E. Maaskamp.

Clean copy with the uncut plates in beautiful fresh impressions. Complete copies are very rare.
Nijhoff-Van Hattum 11; ''Met Fouquet door Amsterdam. Geill. met 103 reprod. van de gravures ...', in: Nieuwe Atlas van Fouquet. Facs. ed. with an extensive introd. by Mej. Dr. I.H. van Eeghen (Amst., 1966).

Related Subjects: 18th Century  Amsterdam  Engravings  Low Countries  Views 

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