ATLAS]. JANSSONIUS, Johannes (1588-1664). Theatrum exhibens celebriores Galliae et Helvetiae urbes ... Illustriorum Regni Galliae civitatum tabulae ut et Helvetiae confoederatae civitates celebriores. [Jansson Townbooks volume V]. Amsterdam: [1657]. 2 o (488 x 320 mm). Latin text. Engraved title with pasted letterpress overslip, letterpress title undated, 40 (of 41) double-page engraved town plans and views of France and Switzerland (lacks the view of Luzern), ALL COLORED IN A CONTEMPORARY HAND, all on guards. (Some browning especially to text and versos of plates.) Contemporary Dutch vellum, gilt roll-tool borders and central gilt arabesques, spine flat in six compartments with gilt tooled motifs, gilt edges (lacking ties). Provenance : I.N. Phelps Stokes, by descent to the present owner. A fine example of Jansson's rare series of town views colored in a CONTEMPORARY HAND. Completed in eight volumes, the townbooks covered the Low Countries, Germany, France and Switzerland, Scandinavia, Italy, Greece, Spain and the Far East. Jansson embarked on this ambitious project in the early 1650's having acquired the plates of the Civitates Orbis Terrarum from Abraham Hogenberg Jansson engraved many new views and modified many of the original plates. Koeman II Ja 14.
ATLAS]. JANSSONIUS, Johannes (1588-1664). Theatrum exhibens celebriores Galliae et Helvetiae urbes ... Illustriorum Regni Galliae civitatum tabulae ut et Helvetiae confoederatae civitates celebriores. [Jansson Townbooks volume V]. Amsterdam: [1657]. 2 o (488 x 320 mm). Latin text. Engraved title with pasted letterpress overslip, letterpress title undated, 40 (of 41) double-page engraved town plans and views of France and Switzerland (lacks the view of Luzern), ALL COLORED IN A CONTEMPORARY HAND, all on guards. (Some browning especially to text and versos of plates.) Contemporary Dutch vellum, gilt roll-tool borders and central gilt arabesques, spine flat in six compartments with gilt tooled motifs, gilt edges (lacking ties). Provenance : I.N. Phelps Stokes, by descent to the present owner. A fine example of Jansson's rare series of town views colored in a CONTEMPORARY HAND. Completed in eight volumes, the townbooks covered the Low Countries, Germany, France and Switzerland, Scandinavia, Italy, Greece, Spain and the Far East. Jansson embarked on this ambitious project in the early 1650's having acquired the plates of the Civitates Orbis Terrarum from Abraham Hogenberg Jansson engraved many new views and modified many of the original plates. Koeman II Ja 14.
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