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Convolute of two very rare series of engraved views on Rome and other European cities

SCHENK, Pieter.
Roma aeterna, sive ipsius aedificiorum Romanorum, integrorium  collapsorumque, conspectus duplex.

With engraved title, and 100 full-page views of the city of Rome, with  2-line text in Latin and Dutch underneath, engraved on the plate, all plates signed Pet: Schenck.

With engraved title, and 100 full-page views of the city of Rome, with  2-line text in Latin and Dutch underneath, engraved on the plate, all plates signed Pet: Schenck.

With engraved title, and 100 full-page views of the city of Rome, with  2-line text in Latin and Dutch underneath, engraved on the plate, all plates signed Pet: Schenck.

With engraved title, and 100 full-page views of the city of Rome, with  2-line text in Latin and Dutch underneath, engraved on the plate, all plates signed Pet: Schenck.

With engraved title, and 100 full-page views of the city of Rome, with  2-line text in Latin and Dutch underneath, engraved on the plate, all plates signed Pet: Schenck.



(Amsterdam, Pieter Schenk, ca. 1705). Oblong 4to (bookblock measuring 194 x 255 mm.). Contemporary half calf, spine ribbed and gilt in compartments, with red morocco title label lettered in gold, sprinkled edges. With engraved title, and 100 full-page views of the city of Rome, with  2-line text in Latin and Dutch underneath, engraved on the plate, all plates signed Pet: Schenck.

With:
(2) CALL, Jan van. Admirandorum quadruplex spectaculum.
Amsterdam, Petrus Schenk, (ca. 1705). 4 parts in 1 vol. With richly engraved allegorical title, full-page engraved dedication to Frederik Duke of Saxony, full-page mezzo-tint  portrait of the Duke, 4 engraved half-titles, and 4 series of engraved views, resp.: (Pars prima), containing 19 views of the most charming places along the Rhine; (Pars secunda. Loani, ut at villarum Regis Gulielmi reliquaryum conspectus selectiores), containing 25 views of 'Het Loo' (17), 'Huis ten Bosch' (2), 'Honselaarsdijk' (2), 'Rijswijk' (1), and 'Sorgvliet' (2); (Pars tertia Hagae Comitis conspectus iucundissimi), containing 10 views of The Hague and Scheveningen; and (Pars quarta. Amstelaedami, conspectus magnifici et augusti), containing 17 views of Amsterdam, all with 2-line text in Latin and Dutch underneath, engraved on the plate,and all signed Pet: Schenck; with engraved index-leaf at the end of the in total 71 views.

Ad 1: Extremely rare collection of views of ancient and contemporary Rome, engraved and published  by the famous Dutch artist and publisher Pieter Schenk.
Ad 2: Rare series of views of four different subjects with separate engraved half-titles by Jan van Call (1655-1716): (1) 19 views of the most charming places along the Rhine; (2) 25 views of the most important houses and palaces of Stadholder/King William III in the Netherlands; (3) 10 views of the most charming and interesting places of The Hague, including a view of Scheveningen; and (4)  17 views of Amsterdam.

Fine copy, with the bookplate of Charles Dashwood Bruce.- (Binding sl. rubbed at the corners).
Springer p. 44 (only the second series of the 2nd work); Hollstein XXV, 1497-1596 (the first work), and 181 (for the second work, erroneously calling for 18 instead of 10 views of The Hague), and 599 (for the mezzo-tint portrait).

Related Subjects: 18th Century  Amsterdam  Cartography  House of Orange  Illustrated Books  Italy  Netherlands  Prints  Rome  The Hague  Topography 

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