Item Summary

Descriptive Information

Title
Veües des plus beaux lieux de France et d'Italie
Call Number
Oversize NC1130 .U35f
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/tb09j694p
Publisher
[A Paris, chez N. Langlois, 1688?]
Language
French
Date Created
1688
Extent
283 leaves; plates. 31 x 42 cm.
Provenance
Ex copy has armorial bookplate of a 17th cent. member of the Sainte-Marie d'Esquilly family (Normandy)
Source Acquisition
Ex copy is gift of Susan Dwight Bliss.
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Notes
Title from spine.
A nonce collection made up of plates from the so-called Perelle album. Some plates are before letters with captions written in ink by a contemporary hand. Some plates as issued with lettering. The leaves a numbered in contemporary ink 3 to 285. Some leaves are blank.
Plates by Gabriel, Adam and Nicolas Perelle, as well as Israël Silvestre, and Jacobus van Merlen.
Ex copy: Lacking leaf 6.
Binding Note
Ex copy bound in contemporary dark brown mottled calf, with spine title: Üeues des plus belle maison de France.

Discovery Information

Subject
France—Pictorial works
Architecture—France
Albums—France—17th century
Prints—France—17th century
Etchings—France—17th century
Engravings—France—17th century
Topographic views—France—17th century
Topographic views—Italy—17th century

Physical Characteristics

File Count
278

Institutional Information

Collection
Selections from the Graphic Arts Collection
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/bcfff2e0-3171-4e8d-881c-8f4eba6ea718/manifest