The Seven Wonders of the World

Scattered marginal stains, foxing and a few wormholes, especially in the margins. Nice set.

Complete set of the Seven Wonders of the World, enlarged and laterally reversed engravings after G.B. Probst; Probst used copperplate engravings by Philips Galle after Maarten van Heeren. Probst; Probst used copper engravings by Philips Galle after Maarten van Heemskerck as models for most of the leaves in the Wonders of the World series, but some of them have been heavily modified (leaves 5 and 6 are exceptions, for leaf 3 the model probably only served as inspiration): sheet 1 shows in a pictorial way the walls of Babylon and the Hanging Gardens; sheet 2 the Colossus of Rhodes, the statue of the sun god Helios on the island of Rhodes; sheet 3 is supposed to show the pyramids of Giza, "the completely different depiction of the pyramids more in the form of obelisks could be related to the obelisks brought from Egypt to Rome in Caesar's time. "(Sixt, p. 526); plate 4 the tomb of King Maussolos at Halicarnassus; plate 5 an interior view of the temple of Diana or Artemis at Ephesus; plate 6 the Colosseum in Rome and plate 7 shows the lighthouse of Alexandria built on the island of Pharus in the 3rd century B.C. Zotti Minici, Le stampe popolari dei Remondini, 291-297; compare Sixt von Kapff K 415ff