Fine atlas of Southern Holland in full original colour

By HOOGHE, Romeyn de; Jan & Caspar LUYKEN; Heyman van DIJCK, 1701

£18,000

Voorne caart-boeck van alle de dorpen en polders gelegen inden lande van Oost, ende West Voorne, mitsgaders over Flacquée Resorteerende onder ‘t Comptoir der Verpondingen ‘s lants van Voorne, Gedaan maaken door Ordre ende Resolutie vande Heeren Breetste Geerfdens vanden selven Lande genomen op den 7e Juny 1695 Als wanneer Bailliuw ende Leenmannen waren de boven ende neven staande Heeren.

Author: HOOGHE, Romeyn de; Jan & Caspar LUYKEN; Heyman van DIJCK
Publication date: 1701.
Physical description: Folio atlas (560 by 420mm), double-page engraved allegorical title with coats-of-arms by Romeyn de Hooghe, 32 double-page engraved maps, all with fine original hand-colour, original red quarter calf over publisher’s boards, rubbed.
Inventory reference: 1413

Notes

First and only edition of this splendid cadastral atlas. In 1695, the ‘Landen van Voorne’ commissioned the surveyor Heyman van Dijck to map the territory of Voorne (South Holland). Romeyn de Hooghe was requested to decorate the maps, but would eventually only execute the title-page, which is a typical example of his rich allegorical imagery; decorated with the coats-of-arms of the administrators of Voorne, with the arms of the ‘Opperdijkgraaf’, Jacob Frederik Baron van Beyeren van Schagen, prominently placed in the centre. Jan and Caspar Luyken adorned the highly detailed maps with the coat-of-arms of the region depicted, often against the background of a rustic scene.