[Von Zesen] Filips von Zesen. Beschreibung der Stadt Amsterdam:

Darinnen von derselben ersten ursprunge bis auf gegenwärtigen zustand, ihr unterschiedlicher anwachs, herliche Vorrechte, und in mehr als 70 kupfer-stükken entworfene führnehmste Gebeue, zusamt ihrem Stahts-wesen, kauf-handel, und ansehnlicher macht zur see (...). Amsterdam, J. Noschen, 1664, (6),398,(22) p., with altogether 75 very fine engravings (entirely per bound-in letterpress binder's index): frontispiece, large fold. profile, 3 large fold. and 1 double-p.(bird's-eye) plans of the city in various stages of its development, 1 bird's-eye view, 1 double-p. plan of a castle, 1 full-p. plate, 65 double-p. views and 1 illustration in the text, contemporary overlapping vellum, 4to.

A very good copy of the sought-after 4to-edition, published in the same year as the 12mo pocket edition by Marcus Wilhelmsen Doornik. The profile (24 x 45 cm, with a few sm. tears (on folds)); view of the town hall w. small dam./ thin spot; occas. sl. foxed and a few other sm. defects; 1 plate misbound (p. 323 instead of 223). Endpapers renewed. Provenance: with annotation in pen "Liber monasterii Sti. Michaëlis" [place?] "Jacobo per abbate ab 1699" and with intriguing 17th-century owner's entry "Constat á Ash" [?] on title p. Also with 19th-century owner's entry "Ex libris H. Lubonchere" on first free endpaper.