POST, Pieter.
Les ouvrages d'architecture.
Leiden, Pieter van der Aa, 1715. 8 parts in 1 volume. Royal folio (46 x 29.5 cm). With an engraved general title-page with a rectangular frame and a cartouche with Athena, architecture books and buildings, letterpress general title-page in red and black with engraved vignette (Athena with a view of Leiden, drawn by J. Goeree), 8 letterpress part-titles, 3 engraved part-titles, engraved dedication, a folding engraved portrait of Prince Johan Maurits after Govert Flinck by C. van Dalen (filling a whole Imperial sheet: plate size 60.5 x 46 cm!), and 8 series of 6, 12, 8, 5, 11, 7, 4 and 23 mostly double-page and some larger folding etched and engraved numbered plates after designs by Pieter Post, showing architectural plans, elevations, sections, etc. In total about 80 copperplates. Mottled calf (ca. 1750). [8], 6; 8; 10; 8; 12; 5, [1 blank]; 6; [2], 8 pp. plus plates.
€ 12,500
Splendid collected works of the most famous Dutch architect and master builder of the 17th century, Pieter Post (1608-1669), including the enormous folding portrait of his patron Johan Maurits, governor of Brazil, not included in all copies. Each of the first 7 parts is devoted to a single building by Pieter Post, and they are high points in the history of Dutch architecture. Among them are the house of Johan Maurits in The Hague (now the Mauritshuis Museum); the house and gardens of Amalia van Solms (now the palace Huis ten Bosch); the Maastricht city hall and the weigh house in Gouda.
With small tears in the portrait where the folds cross, one plate slightly slurred by the printer and some leaves restored, but still in good condition. 2 plates of the 2nd series are mistakenly bound with the 8th series. The binding has a tear in the spine and various smaller tears, scrapes and scratches, the foot of the spine and a few smaller parts have been restored. Splendid collected works of the most famous Dutch architect and master builder of the 17th century. BAL 2603; Berlin Kat. 2231; Cicognara 621; Weinreb, Catalogue 2, 119; modern reprint (Soest 1970); not in Fowler.
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