80/5364 [Haarlem and surroundings]. Visscher, C.J. (1586-1652). Views in the surroundings of Haarlem ("Haerlem"). Twelve engr. plates (incl. the title-print), each 10x16 cm., numb. "1" - "12" in the plate.

- All w. old piece(s) of paper tape in outer right margin on verso; title-p. trifle foxed in blank margins. Fine set with broad margins (17,2x24 cm.).

= Hollstein 149-160, first state (of 2); cat. Harlemia illustrata 57-67; Ekama 409; De Groot, Landscape 23-34; Ackley 36: "The first of a number of etched landscape series published in the period 1611-1616 in which a new, native vision of the Dutch landscape, its modest pleasures and characteristic spaces, was formulated." and Freedberg p.31: "(...) it is the neighbourhood of Haarlem, the indigenous countryside, that is now recognised as capable of offering what art lovers expected from a landscape - and the emphasis is on its pleasurable element." SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LV.