Lot 57: Campen, Jacob van. , Afbeelding van't stadt huys van Amsterdam. Amsterdam: Dankcjer Danckerts, 1661

Folio (440 x 267mm.), engraved title-page, engraved portrait of Van Campen, 23 engraved plates, eighteenth-century calf, lettering-piece, lacking one plate ("G"), section of plate "T" detached, some edges ragged, some small tears with slight loss (that in text leaves repaired), some pages remargined, corners gnawed, some spotting and staining, binding rubbed

Campen's spectacular record of the architecture and sculptural decoration of the Amsterdam Town Hall, built between 1648 and 1655 and the most grandiose of all European town halls.