AUGUSTA TAURINORUM
£250
Scarce hand coloured copper engraving published in; "La Galerie Agréable du Monde"
This view is one of the few double printed views with a decorative frame like outer border. Slight offset of internal printed image as all of this view were printed.
Scarce
Good hand colour
Very good condition.
*The monumental 66-volume Galerie Agréable du Monde, is a collection of around 3,000 plates showing panoramic views of cities, maps, scenes of everyday life and depictions of religious customs, illustrating various locations around the world as they were known to Europeans in the early eighteenth century.
Wikipedia ** the sixty-six volume Galerie Agréable du Monde [Leiden, 1728],[3] of which only 100 copies are said to have been printed.
code : M5304
Cartographer : Pieter Van Der AA
Date : 1728 Leiden
Size : 34*42 cms sheet 40*47 cms
availability : Available
Price : £250
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.
