75/2579 [Amsterdam and surroundings]. Zesen, P. von. Beschreibung der Stadt Amsterdam. Amst., J. Noschen, 1664, (6),398,(22)p., engr. frontisp., 73 fold./ double-p. views/ plates/ plans (1x single page), 1 engr. ill., contemp. vellum, sm. 4to.

- Sm. blank portion of title-p. cut out and replaced w. piece of blank paper; plates professionally reattached to new stubs; partly yellowed/ browned as usual; a few plates sl. foxed.

= Nijhoff/ Van Hattum 350; Dünnhaupt 52,1: "Zesen versucht durch diese mit erstaunlicher Sachkunde verfaßte Topographie den Mitbürgern seiner Wahlheimat Amsterdam seinen Dank abzustatten."; Faber du Faur 824: "(...) a sort of 17th Century Baedeker, with excellent factual descriptions of the streets, embankments and buildings (...)". One of the nicest townbooks of Amsterdam, finely illustrated and rarely found complete. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE CXVI.