RADEMAKER, Abraham.
Kabinet van Nederlandsche en Kleefsche outheden.
Amsterdam, Isaak Tirion, [between 1728 and 1766]. 2 parts in 1 volume. 4to. With an engraved title page in each part, and 300 numbered engraved half-page views. Contemporary gold-tooled red morocco. [76]; [76] ll.
€ 3,500
Beautifully bound, complete copy of Abraham Rademaker's celebrated series of 300 views of famous sights and buildings in the Netherlands and Cleve. These fine engravings include views of Amsterdam, Hoorn, Egmond, Haarlem, Rynsburg, Leiden, Delft (with the ruins of Koningsveld Abbey and the Cartusian monastery), Spangen, Dordrecht, Gorinchem, IJsselstein, Montfoort, Utrecht, Arnhem, Nijmegen, Kleve, and Emmerik. The plates are predominantly dated between 1573 and 1720. However, these dates do not indicate when the plate was made, but correspond instead to the condition of the depicted towns and buildings in those respective years.
Abraham Rademaker (1679-1735) was a versatile painter and engraver, known mostly for his many views he made of villages, towns, churches, monasteries, castles, and manor houses, sometimes in ruins, in the Netherlands and the area around Kleve. Apart from the various editions of his Kabinet, he also published series of views in De zegepraalende Vecht (1719) and Spiegel van Amsterdams zomervreugd (1728).
The present copy was owned by Adam Mansfieldt de Cardonnel Lawson (of Cramlington, Northumberland; 1746-1820), a historian from Scotland who is the author of a book similar to Rademakers Kabinet: Pituresque antiquities of Scotland (1788-1793), etched by Adam de Cardonnel. The work was then inherited by his granddaughter Lucy Anna de Cardonnel Elmsall.
With the bookplates of Adam Mansfieldt de Cardonnel Lawson (of Cramlington, Northumberland; 1746-1820), and Lucy Anna de Cardonnel Elmsall (1828- after 1867) mounted on the front pastedown, and an ownership annotation by the former on the title page ("Lawson 1802"). The boards are very slightly rubbed. The title page of the first part is somewhat soiled, occasional mild soiling in the margins. Otherwise in very good condition. De Buck, no. 584; STCN 300275331 (5 copies); cf. Tiele 892 (other ed.); Wurzbach II, p. 375 (other ed.).
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