ROME NOVISSIMA ET ACCURATISSIMA DELINEATIO ROMAE
£1200
Superb large map of Rome.
A late-17th-century map of Rome, based on Giovanni Battista Falda’s original plate of Novissima et Accuratissima Delineatio Romae Veteris, which was later reissued by De Ram, Allard, De la Feuille, and Van der Aa.
This is the Van Der Aa issue which was included in ' Galerie Agreable Du Monde..' of which only 100 examples were printed
Superb detail finely engraved so possible to see every building and street .. the Colisseum, Pantheon etc.
Excellent hand colour. No repairs stains etc
Very good condition
Titre : La galerie agréable du monde, où l'on voit en un grand nombre de cartes très exactes et de belles tailles douces les principaux empires, roïaumes, républiques,
provinces, villes, bourgs et forteresses ....
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.
code : M5397
Cartographer : Pieter Van Der AA
Date : 1728 Amsterdam
Size : 50.5*59cms sheet 58*64 cms
availability : Available
Price : £1200
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.
