Rare folio edition with accounts of the most important voyages
undertaken by Western Europeans in the early modern period
AA, Pieter van der.
De aanmerkenswaardigste en alomberoemde zee- en landreizen der Portugeezen, Spanjaarden, Engelsen en allerhande natiën: zoo van Fransen, Italiaanen, Deenen, Hoogh- en Nederduitsen, Als van veele andere volkeren. Voornaamenlyk ondernomen tot ontdekking van de Oost- en West-Indiën, mitsgaders andere verafgelegene gewesten des aardryks.
The Hague and Leiden, widow of Engelbrecht Boucquet and sons, Jan van der Deyster, and Boudewijn and Pieter van der Aa, 1727. 8 volumes. Folio. With a general title-page printed in red and black, 8 engraved allegorical frontispieces, 4 engraved dedications, 116 engraved maps, 7 full-page engraved plates, and 502 engravings in the text. Further with 8 title-pages with a vignette, and another 128 separate divisional title-pages with a vignette. Contemporary elaborately gold-tooled marbled calf, with a red morocco title-label lettered in gold on each of the spines. Full description
€ 75,000
The Hague and Leiden, widow of Engelbrecht Boucquet and sons, Jan van der Deyster, and Boudewijn and Pieter van der Aa, 1727. 8 volumes. Folio. With a general title-page printed in red and black, 8 engraved allegorical frontispieces, 4 engraved dedications, 116 engraved maps, 7 full-page engraved plates, and 502 engravings in the text. Further with 8 title-pages with a vignette, and another 128 separate divisional title-pages with a vignette. Contemporary elaborately gold-tooled marbled calf, with a red morocco title-label lettered in gold on each of the spines. Full description
