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DAHLBERG, ERIK. Suecia antiqua et hodierna. I-III + Index. About 1660-1718. Folio (438x345 mm.). With 13 pages Index at the end. 354 engraved plates (only lacking the extra plate Templum Ulricae Eleonorae, small plates and register mounted on larger somewhat later paper or joined together, almost all others on whole paper, 1 plate cut to platemarks, some of the folding plates cut in upper margins, minor foxing, a few yellowed or browned). Contemporary brown mottled full calf, worn, gilt border, gilt edges of covers, some mending to corners, rebacked with richly gilt spine in 8 compartments, redspeckled edges. Bookplate of Belton House and John lord Brownlow, baron Charleville & viscount Tyrconnel in the Kingdom of Ireland. During his military service and studies in Germany, Erik Dahlberg (1625­1703) became acquainted with Matthaeus Merian the younger, the publisher of "Theatrum Europaeum" and the "Topographies". On his return to Sweden in 1661, Dahlberg obtained a privilege from the Government to make drawings for a similar publication. The engravings for this work were executed from these drawings by a total of 18 artists except for a few which were based on drawings by David Klöcker Ehrenstrahl and Elias Brenner The project began in 1667, when a number of plates were engraved by Nicolas and Adam Perelle Jean Marot Jean Le Pautre and F. Campion in Paris. Dionysius Padt Brugge engraved 9 plates in Stockholm 1686-87. In 1687 Dahlberg approached another Dutch engraver, Willem Swidde who produced 84 plates together with Erik Reitz and Martin Mytens After Padt Brugge's death, in 1696, he was succeeded by Johannes Van den Aveelen, who came to Stockholm in 1698. He made no less than 144 engravings. Samuel von Blesendorf in Berlin was employed for the portraits, amongst others. Collijn, Sveriges Bibliografi, 1600-talet, col. 197. Berlin Cat. 1, 2256. Gustaf Edvard Klemming, Ur en antecknares samlingar, Uppsala 1880-82, pp. 165-8. Sten G. Lindberg, Swedish Books, 37. Belton House is a Grade I listed country house in Belton near Grantham, Lincolnshire, England. The mansion is surrounded by formal gardens and a series of avenues leading to follies within a larger wooded park. Belton has been described as a compilation of all that is finest of Carolean architecture, the only truly vernacular style of architecture that England had produced since the Tudor period. For three hundred years, Belton House was the seat of the Brownlow and Cust family, who had first acquired land in the area in the late 16th century. Between 1685 and 1688 Sir John Brownlow and his wife had the present mansion built. Following World War the Brownlows, like many of their peers, were faced with mounting financial problems. In 1984 they gave the house away-complete with most of its contents. The recipients of their gift, the National Trust, today fully open Belton to the public. It is in a good state of repair and visited by many thousands of tourists each year. (Wikipedia).