Colom, Jacob. La Flamboyante Colomne des Pays-Bas. Autrement dict Les XVII Provinces.

Amst., 1636. 1st French ed. Engr. title w. 41 engr. maps and 3 plates w. portraits and letterpress verso. Cont. vellum, manuscript title on spine. Obl. 4to. Sl. marginal browning, sm. traces of use on binding.

Occas. erratic page numbering, but the text is complete. Good copy. Provenance: Library of Richard Heber (1773-1833); stamp on front free endpaper, with purchase note: 'Feb. 1816 Evans’s sale of imported book[s]. De Vyerighe Colom, the Dutch edition of this atlas of the Low Countries, appeared one year earlier with 47 maps and 3 plates featuring portraits. For this French edition, the number of maps and plates was reduced to 45 (the map of the Barony of Breda was not printed in this copy. Ref. Van de Krogt IIIB p. 639 (6)). 'The four maps of the polders in Northern Holland were probably considered as not interesting for the French public. The omission of the map of Liege is unexplainable.' Ref. Van der Krogt IIIB 365:11.