Schau-Platz dess Niederlandes oder: Es sey die Beschreibung der siebenzehen Provincien desselben
Subtitle: mit beygefügten Grundrissen der Städt und vornehmen Vestungen, von wem sie de facto besessen, wie, auff was Weiss, vnd zu welcher Zeit sie erworben Worden
By: Neben angehängter unweitläuffiger Erzehlung dessen, was sich in der letzten dess Königs in Franckreich wider die General Staaden der vereinigten Provintzien vorgenommenen Auffruhr der Waffen biss zu End dess 1672. Jahrs zugetragen hat
Publisher: Gedruckt bey M. Thurnmayer der Hochlöblichen Universität Buchdrucker
Published: 1673
Place of publication: Wienn in Oesterreich
Language: ger
Number of pages: 246
Subjects: West-Indische Compagnie (Netherlands); History
Other titles: Schauplatz dess Niderlands.
Notes: Commas substituted for virgules in title page transcription.

Gualdo Priorato is identified as author in an imperial privilege on p. [7], 1st count, which is dated 18 July 1673.

Added fully engraved compartment bearing coats of arms of the Netherlandish provinces; title in letterpress reads: Der Schauplatz des Niderlands.

A version in Italian was published the same year under title Teatro del Belgio which was issued as both a Vienna and a Frankfurt imprint.

Based in part on his Relatione delle Provincie Unite del Paese Basso, first printed "In Colonia", which is a falso imprint and has been identifed as either being printed in the Netherlands or printed in Brussels [?], according to Alden, in 1668.

"Von der West-Indischen Compagnie oder Gesellschaft" p. 84-86.

Signatures: pi² (pi1, pi2 versos blank) ²pi² A-2R² (2R2 verso blank) chi²

Title page printed within ornamental woodcut border; engraved vignette of fishermen on title page; tail pieces; initials.

Folded map following p. [5], 4th count, is numbered "1" and is a double folded map of the United Provinces; double plates which follow are engraved maps/plans of various cities and towns in the United Provinces of the Netherlands and are numbered 1-120; p. [2-5], 4th count are a key to the double plates which follow, and the folded double map numbered "1" is not included.

Palmer, P.M. German works on America, 332.

Alden, J.E. European Americana, 673/83.

JCB Lib. cat., pre-1675, III:254-255.

John Carter Brown Library copy imperfect: wanting p. [5-6], preface, 1st count, which is available in negative photostat facsimile in the JCB bibliographical file; p. [98], 3rd count, has been renumbered "100" in ms. hand and the original numeral cannot be read; two folded plates also wanting.

John Carter Brown Library copy bound in contemporary calf, rebacked.