towns Archives - Daniel Crouch Rare Books https://crouchrarebooks.com/gallery-tag/towns/ Rare Maps, Vintage Maps, Antique Maps, Rare Atlases, Rare Books Sat, 15 Mar 2025 14:05:18 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 https://crouchrarebooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/dcrb-favicon-white-100x100.png towns Archives - Daniel Crouch Rare Books https://crouchrarebooks.com/gallery-tag/towns/ 32 32 238712441 The earliest systematic city atlas https://crouchrarebooks.com/browse/the-earliest-systematic-city-atlas-3/ Thu, 07 Nov 2024 22:14:36 +0000 https://crouchrarebooks.com/browse/the-earliest-systematic-city-atlas-3/ By BRAUN, Georg; and Franz. HOGENBERG, 1585-1617.

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]]> Folio (385 by 280mm), Latin text, six volumes bound in three, engraved title pages and 363 double-page engraved maps, plans, and bird’s-eye views, all with FINE ORIGINAL HAND-COLOUR, contemporary vellum, title in manuscript to spine.

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]]> 33681 An exceptionally fine example of Blaeu’s great work on the towns of the Netherlands bound in full red morocco with the coats-of-arms of James Butler, 1st Duke of Ormond https://crouchrarebooks.com/browse/an-exceptionally-fine-example-of-blaeus-great-work-on-the-towns-of-the-netherlands-bound-in-full-red-morocco-with-the-coats-of-arms-of-james-butler-1st-duke-of-ormond-2/ Fri, 09 Feb 2024 20:13:47 +0000 https://crouchrarebooks.com/browse/an-exceptionally-fine-example-of-blaeus-great-work-on-the-towns-of-the-netherlands-bound-in-full-red-morocco-with-the-coats-of-arms-of-james-butler-1st-duke-of-ormond-2/ By BLAEU, Willem and Johannes BLAEU., [1652].

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]]> Third Latin edition. Two volumes. Folio (550 by 350mm), engraved title-pages with fine contemporary hand-colour and heightened in gilt, 225 double-page sheets with over 300 maps and views, all with fine contemporary hand-colour, (minor worming in lower gutter of volume II), bookplate of ‘Emo Park Library’ to upper paste down; contemporary Dutch gold-tooled maroon morocco over heavy pasteboard, the sides paneled with fillets and rolls, large gold-blocked corner-ornaments, crown tool where the silk ties (now gone) were laced into the covers, eight compartments of spines decorated with small floral tools, green morocco lettering pieces, all edges gilt; the center of both covers inlaid c.1675 by an English restoration binder with a large rectangular piece of scarlet morocco gold-blocked with the Ormonde Arms and tooled with a border roll and small corner-ornaments.

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