[STOOPENDAAL, Daniël and Andries de LETH].
De zegepraalende Vecht, vertoonende verscheidene gesichten van lustplaatsen, heeren huysen en dorpen; beginnende van Uitrecht en met Muyden besluytende.
Including: [BRUIN, Claas]. Speelreis langs de Vechtstroom, op de uitgegeevenen gezichten van de zeegepraalende Vecht.
Amsterdam, Widow of Nicolaus Visscher, 1719. 2 parts in 1 volume. Folio. With engraved frontispiece, 1 engraved map of the river Vecht and 102 engravings on 51 leaves (numbered 1-98). Contemporary red half sheepskin. [2], 16, 37, [1 blank] pp
€ 2,000
Stoopendaal's lovely 98 views of the Vecht region, the favourite area for wealthy people from Amsterdam and Utrecht to build their country houses. "This illustrated work is an important source for the spectacular development of country life along the Vecht during the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries" (The Anglo-Dutch Garden). The engravings are numbered in the lower right corner and have a few lines of engraved explanatory text in Dutch on the left and in French on the right underneath. The explanations in the preface are provided by Andries de Leth. The poem "Journey along the Vecht" by Claas Bruin, describing the illustrated houses, is present as usual.
Some occasional spots, some waterstains in the upper margins, not touching the plates, one leaf with a corner torn-off and some water damage to the text leaves; a good copy. Binding heavily rubbed, spine chipped and partly cracked. The Anglo-Dutch Garden 12; Hollstein XXVIII, p. 145, no. 55; STCN (8 copies, incl. 2 incomplete).
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