Les d�lices de l'Espagne et du Portugal, 5 volumes in 3, 1st edition, Leiden: Pieter van der Aa 1707, 165 engraved plates including folding title page to each volume, folding dedication leaf to volume 1, and 159 plates including views, maps and plans (143 folding), browning to text-leaves and occasionally to plates, letterpress title pages printed in red and black, bound without half-titles, 1 plate (panorama of Barcelona) with short nick to fold, later gift- or ownership inscriptions and remains of shelf-mark labels to front free endpapers, contemporary tan sheep backing marbled boards, gilt spines, slightly rubbed, 12mo (15 x 9 cm) Palau 9588; not in Cohen-de Ricci. There is no list of illustrations but this copy has a greater number of plates than any other traced in auction records; a copy at Sotheby's in 1990 contained 163 including the titles and dedication leaf. The Dutch translation of the same year is more usually encountered. (3)
Les d�lices de l'Espagne et du Portugal, 5 volumes in 3, 1st edition, Leiden: Pieter van der Aa 1707, 165 engraved plates including folding title page to each volume, folding dedication leaf to volume 1, and 159 plates including views, maps and plans (143 folding), browning to text-leaves and occasionally to plates, letterpress title pages printed in red and black, bound without half-titles, 1 plate (panorama of Barcelona) with short nick to fold, later gift- or ownership inscriptions and remains of shelf-mark labels to front free endpapers, contemporary tan sheep backing marbled boards, gilt spines, slightly rubbed, 12mo (15 x 9 cm) Palau 9588; not in Cohen-de Ricci. There is no list of illustrations but this copy has a greater number of plates than any other traced in auction records; a copy at Sotheby's in 1990 contained 163 including the titles and dedication leaf. The Dutch translation of the same year is more usually encountered. (3)
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