SPL Hand Coloured Rare Book Collection Featuring Norman R Bobins

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PAETZ, Wilhelm.
Ansichten Niderladischer Stadte.

A beautifully presented book of some of the cities of Holland; depicting Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Utrecht, Dortrecht, Leyden, Delft, Breda, and Nimegen.

Published
Coblentz: K. Baedeker, Rotterdam, A. Baedeker, c.1850.
References
Landwehr 229; BL; Thieme-Becker XXVI, p.135; not in OCLC, Bobins 1091.
Plates
20
Binding/Size
S=8vo
Value
0-5000
Published
Coblentz: K. Baedeker, Rotterdam, A. Baedeker, c.1850.
Ref
5320

[Views of Dutch cities.] Oblong octavo, 20 lithographed plates, hand-coloured and heightened with gum arabic, all after drawings by Paetz, each with a pink tissue guard. Contemporary quarter brown morocco boards over purple backed boards, blind-stamped and with gilt rule, gilt letters direct to upper board. From the library of Eric Wilhelm Aurivillius. MS ownership to front-pastedown. Coloured plates in order: 1. Amsterdam. 2. Amsterdam, het Paleis en de nieuwe Kerk. 3. Arnhem. 4. Breda. 5. Delft. 6. Dordrecht. 7. Gorkum. 8. s'Gravenhage. 9. Harlem. 10. 's Hertogenrosch. 11. Leyden. 12. Loevestein. 13. Nimegen. 14. Nymegen gezigt van het Belvedere. 15. Rotterdam van de Palntagie. 16. Rotterdam van het Ponteveer. 17. Rotterdam. De grote Markt. 18. Rotterdam van de Spaansche Kade. 19. Scheveningen. 20. Utrecht.