HET ZEGENPRALEND KENNERMERLAND VERTOONT IN VEELE HEERELYKE GEZICHTEN VAN DESZELFS VOORNAEMSTE LUSTPLAETZEN, ADELYKE HUIZEN, DORP-EN-STEDE-GEBOUWEN… GETEKENT EN IN ‘T KOPER GEBRAGT DOOR HENDRIK DE LETH. EN KORTELYK BESCHREEVEN DOOR MATTHAEUS BROUËRIUS VAN NIDEK. R.G. de BROUËIUS VAN NIDEK, MATTHAEUS - 1729? - 1732?

DUTCH REGENCY HOUSES AND GARDENS

Modern binding of black cloth spine and marbled paper -covered boards with gilt-lettered black leather label. An attractive clean copy.

Two parts in one volume. Etched vignette on title page, etched headpiece on dedication leaf, frontispieces for the two parts, folding engraved map and 100 copper-engraved views on fifty leaves with brief descriptions in Dutch and French. The plates are unsigned but the title states that they are by Hendrik de Leth .

Scarce documentation of Dutch architecture and gardens of the late 17th and early 18th centuries with plans and views of town and country houses and their elaborate gardens in Kennermerland, a fashionable country district north of Haarlem. The houses are in the Dutch Regency style and subordinate to the gardens, which, while still symmetrical, show natural elements superseding the formal. They include water features, a labyrinth, allées of trees, parterres, a Turkish tent and other pavilions, amphitheaters, a triumphal arch, statues and vases.

Berlin Catalogue 2246 (8). Mark Millard Architectural Collection, Northern European Books, 9.