Prachtvoll koloriertes und guterhaltenes Exemplar des sehr gesuchten Städtebuchs. Von höchster Seltenheit, kein Exemplar auf deutschsprachigen und internationalen Auktionen seit 1945, in den Online-Katalogen der großen Bibliotheken sind für uns nur drei Exemplare nachweisbar (BSB, BL, Libr. of Congress).

"In the long series of town-books, the illustration of topography and of social life had gone hand-in-hand ever since Georg Braun ... [Carel Allard was] the first editor of a town-book to couple topographical plates and corresponding costume-plates. In his collection, twenty-three of the subjects (making 46 plates) are represented by such pairs, the costumed figures in the second plates being backed, in all cases but three, by a reduced version of the same view as that presented, on a larger scale, in the first plate. Of the remaining 54 plates, 36 are views of towns, and 18 are costume pictures or characteristic 'genre' groups. - The 100 numbered plates are executed in a free style with noticeable bravura, using line-engraving and etching in combination. Of the costume-plates 36 are signed by Meijer, and the other five are almost certainly by him. Twenty views have Doesburgh's signature, and the remaining 39 are engraved in a style and with decoration indistinguishable from those of his signed plates. - ... there is little reason to doubt that its engravers worked under Allard's direction, if not in his shop, and that he imposed on the collection the unity and individuality which distinguish it. " (R. A. Skelton zur Faks.-Ausg. 1966).

Mit Ansichten von (& tlw. Trachten aus): Acapulco, Alexandria, Algier, Amsterdam, Antwerpen, Archangelsk, Bantam, Barbaodos, Kairo, Kap der Guten Hoffnung, Colombo, Kongo, Konstantinopel, Kopenhagen, Krakau, Danzig, Havanna, Hudson Bay, Isfahan, Jakarta, Jerusalem, Leiden, Lissabon, London, Madrid, Mexico, Mozambique, New York, Panama, Paris, Pernambuco, Potosí, Prag, Rom, Rotterdam, Santo Domingo, San Juan, Surinam, Smyrna, Stockholm, Tientsin, Tripolis, Tunis, Venedig und Wien.

Ohne die Kostümtafel zu New York. - Rücken und Bindung restauriert, Tafeln neu eingehängt. Ränder tlw. gering fleckig, vereinz. minimale Randläsuren. Deckelbezug mit wenigen wurmbedingten Fehlstellen. Insges. gutes Exemplar, die farbfrischen und breitrandigen Tafeln überwiegend sauber.
Not in Lipperheide and Colas and the respective Americana bibliographies. Only edition. Extremely rare much sought-after town book by C. Allard, of which no other copy has been auctioned off neither in German nor in international auctions since 1945, just three other copies in the large libraries (BSB, BL, Libr. of Congress). With double page coloured title leaf and 99 double page coloured copper plates (of 100) by T. Doesburgh (views) and A. Meijer (costumes). Contemp. calf. - Lacking the costume-plate of New York. Spine renewed and binding restored, plates hinged at a later point. Slightly stained in places of margins, with isolated marginal defects. Covering of front board with few defective spots due to worming. All in all fine copy, the broad-margined plates in fresh colours are mostly clean.