Complete set. BLAEU. Novum Italiae Theatrum-Novum theatrum Pedemontii et Sabaudiae.

8 volumes in Imperial folio. 525x318 mm. Contemporary binding dated 1735, brown leather with double gilt rules on coverplates, gilt titles and decoration on backs, gilt date printed on the back coverplates. Latin text. 8 frontispiece (2 repeated), titlepage in red and black with engraved vignette, 99 vignettes in the text, 111 initial letters, 4 portraits, one coat of arm, 7 geographic maps, 411 plates, mostly on double page or folded, all engraved on copper. In the first volume was added also the titlepage of Mortier edition of 1705. Copy conforming to the indices present in the volumes. Traces of wear on binding, some slight brownings and occasional foxing and wormholes. In the end a nice copy in original binding.

Very rare complete series of the latest edition of Blaeu's impressive work on the cities of Italy, with the additions of Piedmont and Savoy. In this edition edited by Alberts appears Lombardy, the Republic of Genoa, Monferrato, the Republic of Venice, Lucca and the Grand Duchy of Tuscany. The part dedicated to Piedmont and Savoy, bound in four volumes, is very important. Koeman: "Result of an ambitious plan undertaken by Duke Charles Emanuel II of Savoy in the 1660s which he pursued to its fulfillment in the 1680s under Duchess Marie Jeanne of Savoy-Nemours ... Alberts divided both volumes into two parts, each with a separate engraved title-page. The contents, however, are almost identical to the preceding editions. "The magnificent views, the plains of the cities, the monuments and works of art depicted also concern numerous small towns; larger cities are generally represented with different general and partial perspective views.In particular, Rome is depicted in 87 plates, Turin and its surroundings (29), Naples (13), Venice (12), Bologna (11), Milan (4), Genoa (3), Florence (2). Furthermore: Acquapendente (2), Asti (3), Casale Monferrato (2), Cremona (2), Carmagnola (2), Cuneo (2), Frascati (4), Gaeta (3), Livorno (3), Lucca ( 5), Mantua (2), Messina (2), Mondovì (4), Nice (2), Pavia (2), Pesaro (2), Rimini (3), San Marino (2), Treviso (2), Tivoli (5), Verona (2), Venaria (2), Velletri (2), Vercelli (3). Among the many other views: Ancona, Catania, Cesena, Como, Cremona, Faenza, Ferrara, Orvieto, Palermo, Parma, Pisa, Siena, Todi, Trento, Urbino, Valletta. Piedmont and Savoy are made up of two volumes bound in four volumes. With: Four chalcographic antiporte, dated 1725; Four title pages printed in red and black; 140 double-page plates, some of which folded; 4 between portraits. Mythical and monumental work that surveys and analyzes the Savoy territories. The drawings from which the branches were taken are the work of Giovenale Boetto, Simone Formento, Federico Guazzo, Carlo Morello and Giovanni Bergomio. Document of exceptional mastery, essential for the historical study and analysis of landscape architecture.In this example there is the large folded card "Theater de la guerre en Piemont en Savoye & dans le Dauphiné", placed after page 2; at the bottom left the writing “Tom I n ° 5”. This plate does not appear in Koeman's collection.

Cfr. Koeman's Atlantes Neerlandici. Vol. IV: The Town Atlases, Braun & Hogenberg, Janssonius, Blaeu, De Wit/Mortier and Others. Edited by Peter vander Krogt, Houten, 2010.

Koemann IV/1, 43:233. 1-4 e 43:333.1-2.