Commelin, Casparus - Beschryvinge van Amsterdam (in 2 vols.)

-zynde een naukeurige verhandelinge van desselfs eerste oorspronk uyt den huyse der Heeren Van Amstel en Amstellant ...tot den jare 1691, 2nd edition, tot Amsterdam, by Andries van Damme, Johannes Ratelband, De Weduwe A. van Aaltwyk and Hermanus Uytwerf, 1726. Complete with folding plan, folding view on Amsterdam from 't Y, 4 other plans, a genealogical register, 47 plates, most of which are double-p. and countless prints in the text. The prints and maps are all copper engravings.

Large folio, half leather bindings with cased boards, ill. frontispice, designed by P. Tideman, l (16),1223,(40) p. paper with large margins. Upper side spines repaired in amateuristic fashion with sellotape, otherwise in very good condition.