2 vol. in-f° (57,2 x 34,7 cm), [20]-108, [16]-137-[1] pp; 2 engraved allegorical titles (de Lairesse), 2 engraved title vignettes and 140 plates (complete according to Koeman). The first volume is dedicated to Piedmont and contains: allegorical engraved title, the coat of arms of the duke of Savoye, the portraits of Charles-Emmanuel II and Marie-Jeanne de Savoy-Nemours, a genealogical table and 65 views of palaces with gardens, public buildings, some monasteries and churches, townplans and maps (large bird-eye view of Turin on 2 sheets). Complete (engraved title and 69 plates), some foxing in text pages. The second volume dedicated to Savoye contains : a different allegorical engraved title, the portraits of Charles-Emmanuel II and Marie-Jeanne de Savoy-Nemours and 69 views, townplans and maps (Thonon, Aosta, Biella, Vercelli...). All leaves and plates mounted on guards, most plates are on double page or folding. The illustrations are all blank on verso. Contemporary uniform brown calf bindings, spines richly gilt, large block with a composition of vines round a celestial globe, (cf. Amsterdam, Quatrefoil Bindery), small globes in the 4 corners (corners slightly bumped, some scratches on the boards, small defect at the top corner of the lower board of vol. II). Very good copy
Ref. Koeman I, Bl 79 and 80. Dutch text edition, the first Latin edition was printed in 1682 by the heirs of Blaeu. In 1967, A. Moetjens re-issued the edition of the volumes Piemont and Savoye with Dutch text, without adding new maps, but incidentally erasing Blaeu's name from the plates. The legends of the plates remained in Latin. MAJOR and ABUNDANTLY ILLUSTRATED topographical atlas of the prestigious Northern Italian states of Piedmont and Savoye. Cf. Storm van Leeuwen, Dutch Decorated Bookbinding, vol. I, p. 216 & vol. III, p. 670 ""The binder of these atlases must have used the block until 1697 or shortly thereafter. Apparently the Quatrefoil Bindery then took it over from this unknown workshop
