PARIS CAPITALE DE FRANCE
£485
Very Rare view of Paris in superb hand colour
The engraving was printed for Van Der Aa's 'Galerie Agreable du Monde'1730.
There were only about 100 copies printed of this monumental work.
Very strong impression.
Excellent hand colour
This is a double printing with the decorative borders and the view from seperate plates.
A beautiful sought after view in mint condition.
La Galerie Agréable du Monde is a monumental 66-volume geographical and cultural compilation published in Leiden around 1728–1729 by the Dutch publisher Pieter van der Aa. It features approximately 3,000 copperplate engravings, including city panoramas, maps, and everyday scenes from around the world.
** Believed to have been printed in a very limited edition of only about 100 copies.
code : M5643
Cartographer : Van Der AA
Date : 1720 Leiden
Size : 34*41cms Sheet size 36.5*45 cms
availability : Available
Price : £485
Pieter Van Der Aa (1659-1733)
Van Der Aa was a prolific publisher, working in Leiden during the first three decades of the eighteenth century. Much of his output consisted of re-issues and re-engravings of map and view plates that he had acquired from earlier mapmakers. Little of his output was original, though that which is has a very distinct style, precisely and elegantly engraved, and is much sought-after today.
Perhaps his most remarkable publication was the elaborate Galerie Agreable Du Monde, issued in 1729, in 66 parts, bound into 27 volumes, which contained about 3,000 plates, apparently limited to 100 sets. Another of his extensive publications was the Cartes Des Itineraires Et Voyages Modernes, a collection of 28 volumes of travel accounts, illustrated with a series of small, but finely engraved maps, often with decorative pictorial title-pieces.
An interesting feature of Van Der Aa's method is that several of his atlases include maps printed within large, separately engraved, elaborately designed mock-frame borders, which were prepared with a blank centre so that individual maps could be over-printed on that area.
Despite the quantity and variety of Van Der Aa's publications they seem to have had only a limited circulation, and so are now scarce.
