75/2575 [Amsterdam and surroundings]. Quellinus, H. Het eerste/ het tweede deel van de voornaemste Statuen ende Cieraten, vant konstrijck Stadhuys Van Amsteldam, tmeeste in marmer gemaeckt, door Artus Quellinus, Beelthouwer der voorseyde Stadt. Amst., F. de Wit, 1665/ 1668, 2nd ed., 2 parts, 2 diff. etched title-pages, full-p. etched portrait of A. QUELLINUS, 50/ 51 full-p./ double-p. etched plates by H. QUELLINUS, 2 engr. index leaves, 19th cent. giltlettered hcalf, folio. - BOUND AFTER: Campen, J. van. Afbeelding van 't stadt huys van Amsterdam. Amst., F. de Wit, 1664, 2nd ed., (4)p., engr. title-p., portr. of the author, 3 engr. double-p. plans and 20 (of 21) double-p./ fold. plates by J. VENNEKOOL, folio

- Ad 1: a few minor stains in blank margin; contents fine; bookplate and cat. clipping on upper pastedown. Binding worn/ sl. dam. along extremities; paper over covers dam.

Ad 2: lacks one plate (plate W); title-page of first work sl. yellowed, sl. stained in margins, sl. fingersoiled and with sharp fold in image, partly split at lower end; textpages foxed; one plate lacks portion of outer blank margin; a few fold. plates partly split on fold(s); one fold. plate cut sl. short in lower and upper margin; one fold. plate fold. section loose, frayed and w. false creases on folds.

= Ad 1: Fuhring 4551ff and 4672ff. The first edition (with 4 plates less) was published by De Wit in 1661/ 1665. Kat. Orn. Berlin 4211; Hollstein 5, the second state (of 3); Guilmard p.508. "(...) der geniale Dekorator, Artus Quellin (1609-1668), der durch seine figürlichen und ornamentalen Bildwerke dem sachlich nüchternen stattlichsten Gemeindegebau dieser Zeit, dem Rathaus von Amsterdam, seit 1648, Seele und Herz verliehen hat. Wie die innerliche Glut seines flämischen Geblütes auf holländischem Boden zu breiter Behaglichkeit sich dämpft, kann mann aus den malerischen Ätzungen seines Sohnes Hubert in dem schönen Werke De voornaemste Statuen ende Ciraten (...) ersehen." (Jessen, Der Ornamentstich p.191). Splendid ornamental plates, incl. 2 fold. plates of monumental size (164x42 cm.).

= Ad 2: cf. Fuhring 4282-4311 and cf. 4169 on the inexplicability of the date 1664 mentioned on the engraved title; Fowler 77; Kat. Orn. Berlin 2234. The first edition was published by D. Danckerts in 1661. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE CXVI.