Nouveau théâtre d'Italie, ou Description exacte de ses villes, palais, églises, principaux édifices &c. - Mortier I, Pierre 1661-1711; Blaeu, Jean 1596-1673; Alberts, Rutger Christoffel 1691-1732 (The Hague Alberts, 1724)
Also published in Latin as 'Novum Italiæ theatrum, sive Accurata descriptio ipsius urbium, palatiorum, sacrarum ædium, &c.'
incomplete: title page and all plates cut from the edition.
Title page was a beautifully engraved and richly decorated, including a view of Venice in the lower corner. It was particularly rare as it was specially made for this volume by the publisher Alberts, and so not appearing in earlier editions.Joan Blaeu published during his life three town-books of Italy: Citta del Vaticano, Rome and Naples. By the year 1672 a fire largely destroyed the main Blaeu workshop, and much of the prepared material.However, work on the town-book continued, and in 1682 the completed work was published in Amsterdam by the heirs of Joan Blaeu (1596-1673), Dutch cartographer, printer and editor of atlasses. The town-book was a great success and re-issued several times by different publishers in Amsterdam, as late as 1726. Pierre Mortier re-issued all the Blaeu plates in the years 1704/05 in an atlas comprising four volumes.Now with the imprint of A La Haye chez R.Alberts.
Originally published in 1704
Keywords: 17th Century (1601-1700); 18th Century (1701-1800); Architecture; Fine art; History; Italy