128 engraved prints centred around the Great Turkish War
PEETERS, Jacob and Johannes.
[Drop title on first letterpress leaf:] Briefve description et demonstration des places et villes continuées en ce livre: exactement delinées comme elles sont à present.
(colophons: Antwerp, Jacob Peeters, [1686/87?]). letterpress text plus 3 print series, the last in 5 parts, the whole in 1 volume. Small oblong folio (18 x 29.5 cm). Collection of 128 engraved prints published by Jacob Peeters, starting with a print with medallion portraits of the Holy Roman Emperor Leopold I and his third wife (occasionally described as title-page), followed by 11 equestrian portraits of ruling monarchs and other leading figures after Pieter Stevens, 10 numbered engraved scenes of the 1683 Battle of Vienna after Romeyn de Hooghe, and 106 engraved city views after drawings by Jacob Peeters, engraved by Lucas Vorsterman and Gaspar Bouttats. The 106 city views are arranged as 6 series, the second, third and fourth with a title in the first print, but the intended division between the last two is unclear: [Cities of Austria and Upper Hungary] (40 views); Civitates Hungariae inferiores (20 views); Diverse viste della cita in Candia, Malta, come nel archipelago (11 views); Diverse vis te delli Dardaneli del' dtrecio come delle città e castelli nel archipelago (10 views); and Divarse viste delli Luoghi e Contrade di Barbaria e il Stretto di Gibaltar (11? views); [Cities and other views in the Holy Land and the Arabian peninsula] (14 views?). The letterpress text is intended to provide information about the cities shown in 108 numbered descriptions, but the correspondence with the prints is only approximate and the present copy was accidentally issued without descriptions 51-70 and with descriptions 89-108 repeated without numbers. Late 17th- or early 18th-century sprinkled calf, gold-tooled spine and board edges, marbled pastedowns (in red, blue, yellow and white, combed with teeth irregularly spaced but on average 3 mm), red sprinkled edges. In modern half calf clamshell box, with gold-tooled spine. 20 pp. plus plates. Full description
€ 15,000
(colophons: Antwerp, Jacob Peeters, [1686/87?]). letterpress text plus 3 print series, the last in 5 parts, the whole in 1 volume. Small oblong folio (18 x 29.5 cm). Collection of 128 engraved prints published by Jacob Peeters, starting with a print with medallion portraits of the Holy Roman Emperor Leopold I and his third wife (occasionally described as title-page), followed by 11 equestrian portraits of ruling monarchs and other leading figures after Pieter Stevens, 10 numbered engraved scenes of the 1683 Battle of Vienna after Romeyn de Hooghe, and 106 engraved city views after drawings by Jacob Peeters, engraved by Lucas Vorsterman and Gaspar Bouttats. The 106 city views are arranged as 6 series, the second, third and fourth with a title in the first print, but the intended division between the last two is unclear: [Cities of Austria and Upper Hungary] (40 views); Civitates Hungariae inferiores (20 views); Diverse viste della cita in Candia, Malta, come nel archipelago (11 views); Diverse vis te delli Dardaneli del' dtrecio come delle città e castelli nel archipelago (10 views); and Divarse viste delli Luoghi e Contrade di Barbaria e il Stretto di Gibaltar (11? views); [Cities and other views in the Holy Land and the Arabian peninsula] (14 views?). The letterpress text is intended to provide information about the cities shown in 108 numbered descriptions, but the correspondence with the prints is only approximate and the present copy was accidentally issued without descriptions 51-70 and with descriptions 89-108 repeated without numbers. Late 17th- or early 18th-century sprinkled calf, gold-tooled spine and board edges, marbled pastedowns (in red, blue, yellow and white, combed with teeth irregularly spaced but on average 3 mm), red sprinkled edges. In modern half calf clamshell box, with gold-tooled spine. 20 pp. plus plates. Full description
