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Amsterdam & London: E. Maaskamp & Colnaghi, n.d. [ca. 1805]. (COLOR PLATE) FIRST EDITION, with the plates dated from 1803 to 1805. 4to. Hand-colored frontispiece, and 16 hand-colored engraved plates numbered 1- 16, by Portman after Kuyper; 22 unnumbered leaves of text, plates tipped onto gilt-borded sheets, text leaves inlaid to size. Bound in full red morocco gilt, a.e.g. Rebacked, inner hinges lined with morocco. Colas 1680; Hiler, p. 557. ¶ Beautifully assembled copy of the first edition of this exquisite color plate book. It was reprinted c. 1811, with 20 plates (v. Colas 1681), and again in 1823 with 24 plates (Colas 1682), albeit in inferior impressions , according to Colas. The first and second editions are frequently confused, as the Preface to both contains the date 1803; but in the second edition the plates are all dated 1811

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