[RIEGEL, Christoph].
Ausführliche und grundrichtige Beschreibung der freyvereinigten Staaten und Spannischen Niederlanden, in gewisse und sonderbare XVII. Länder abgetheilet ...
Frankfurt am Main and Leipzig, Christoph Riegel, 1691. 12mo. With a folding engraved frontispiece, 61 full-page engraved plans, and 59 full-page engraved views of the cities and fortifications of the Low Countries. Contemporary vellum with an oval supralibros mounted in the centre of both boards, red edges, leather closing ties. [8], 1078, [8] pp. + 120 engravings.
€ 4,750
First and only edition of a German description and history of the seventeen provinces of the former Spanish Netherlands, consisting of the four Duchies (Brabant, Guelders, Limburg, and Luxembourg), the five Lordships (Groningen, Friesland, Overijssel, Utrecht, and Mechelen), the seven Counties (Holland, Zeeland, Zutphen, Flanders, Artois, Hainaut, and Namur), and the Margraviate of Antwerp.
The work fits in a series of geographical and historical descriptions published by the German publishing house of Christoph Riegel (1648-1714) under the same title Ausführliche und grundrichtige Beschreibung ... comprising, among others, of Des ganzen Rheinstroms (1685), Des ganzen Elbstroms (1687), Der vier weltberühmten Ströme Mosel, Saar, Neckar und Mayn (1690), Des Königreichs Frankreich (1690), and Des gantzen Italiens oder Welschlandes (1692). According to the title page, the work should also have a map, but no copy is known to include it.
The vellum is rubbed, affecting the clarity of the supralibros, the spine has been restored, lacking 4 of the 6 closing ties. The work is somewhat browned and foxed, a small hole in leaf I7 (pp. 205-206) with some loss of text. Otherwise in good condition. Georgi, I, 136; USTC 2550794 (13 copies); VD17, 39:107693D.
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