MERIANS. - ZELLER (Martin). Topographia Galliae, Oder Beschr - Lot 314

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MERIANS. - ZELLER (Martin). Topographia Galliae, Oder Beschr - Lot 314
MERIANS. - ZELLER (Martin). Topographia Galliae, Oder Beschreibung und Contrafaitung der vornehmbsten, und bekantisten Oerter, in dem mächtigen, und grossen Königreich Franckreich. Frankfurt, Gaspar Merians, 1655-1661. 13 parts in 3 vol. in-4, brown half-basane with wedges, back with ornamented nerves, tawny t. and tom. p., red tr. (Ep. Rel.). Original German edition, published shortly before the Latin and Flemish edition in the same year. It is richly illustrated with plates, most of them folding, etched by Mattheus and Caspar Merian after drawings by Johann Peeters. This copy contains a (dirty) frontispiece depicting Clovis and Louis XIV and 324 plates (121 + 125 + 78) depicting the French cities under Louis XIV (maps, bird's-eye views, plans and fortifications), but also localities, towns, gardens, castles... Ex-libris Bibliotheca Victoris Gay, architecti. Vol. I, qq ff detached. Freckles to some ff, sometimes uniformly scorched. Some boards cut a little short in the margins. Very used binding.
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