DELFT -- (BOITET, R.). Beschryving der stadt Delft, behelzende een zeer naaukeurige en uitvoerige verhandeling van deszelfs eerste oorsprong, benaming, bevolking, aanwas, gelegenheid, prachtige en kunstige gedenkstukken en zeltzaamheden. Nevens derzelver voorregten, handvesten, previlegien en regeeringsvorm, (…). Delft, R. Boitet, (1729). (24), 804, (14) pp. W. engr. front., dedic. engr., 2 double-p./fold. plans of the city, 1 lge. harmonica fold. panoramic view (24 x 125 cm), 1 plate depicting seals, 17 fine double-p. engr. views by C. Decker after P. Smith, & w. 3 extra plates bound in. Cont. cf., spine w. raised bands & gold dec. compartments. (Some dam. to spine ends & other extremities, sides with the usual wear, endpapers repaired, hinges remarkably sound, lower corner of the title-p. torn off, some yellowing & offsetting in the text).
With the fine panorama of Delft on two conjoined leaves engraved by C. Decker. The three extra plates depict a plan of Delft, the murder of Willem van Oranje by Balthazar Gerardsz., and a view of Delft after an explosion of a powder tower in 1654. - Nijhoff/v. Hattum 34.€ 700
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