Rare prospectus for Blaeu’s Italian atlas

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Nouveau theatre D'Italie, ou description exacte de ses villes, palais, eglises, &c.

Tome premier. Contenant la Lombardie, sçavoir La Republique de Gennes, les Duchés de Milan, Parme, Moene & Mantoue, les Republiques de Venise, de Lucques, & le Grand Duché de Toscane.

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BLAEU, Johannes
The Hague,
Rutgert Alberts,
1724
Folio. Letterpress title-page in red and black with printer's device, four leaves of black text with one woodcut initial, contemporary manuscript signature, two contemporary ink stains to verso, minor nicks to edges, unbound.
412 by 261mm. (16.25 by 10.25 inches).
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The French prospectus for Alberts's 1724 editions of Blaeu's Italian atlas, to be published in French, Latin and Dutch.

By the time the Blaeu company had published its famous 'Atlas Maior' in all eleven volumes in 1662, plans were well underway for a second multi-volume atlas showing the cities, towns and monuments of Italy. Entitled the 'Theatrum civitatum et admirandorum Italiae', the work would exploit the phenomenon of the Grand Tour - the ceremonial journey...

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