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A Prospect of the City of London from S.t Marie Overs Steeple In Southwark in its flourishing Condition before The Fire.
A Prospect of the City of London from S.t Marie Overs Steeple In Southwark in its flourishing Condition before The Fire. Another Prospect of the above City taken from the Same Place as it Appeared after that Dreadfull Fire in 1666. A Plan for Rebuilding the City after the Fire, Design’d by that Great Architect S.r Christoph.r Wren and approv’d of by King and Parliament but unhappily Defeated by Faction.Vues de la Ville de Londres Comme il doit devant & apres l’incendie de 1666. Avec le plan pour la rebâtir. Projetté par ce grand architecte le chevalier Chrsitopher Wren, & aprouvé par le roi & parliament; mais malheureusement rejetté par faction.
[Prospects after Wenceslaus Hollar.]
Publiè par Jean Rocque, Chorographe de Son Altesse Royalle le Prince de Galles.
Engraved map. Sheet 360 x 315mm (14½ x 12½"). Dissected and laid on linen, trimmed close to printed border, some surface loss top centre & top left, stains and creases, mounted on card.
Sir Christopher Wren's plan for rebuilding London after the Great Fire of 1666, with copies of Wenceslaus Hollar's prospects of the city before and after the fire.
Rare: OCLC records only two institutional examples, in the British Library and the Yale Centre for British Art
[Ref: 61745]   £1,650.00  
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