(Ter Nieuburch)(MILHEUSSER, J. Julius)   GARDEN PLAN. "'t Koninclyck Huys te Ryswyck.   Alwaar Wegens de Generale Vreede Gehandelt Wert."       Amsterdam: Frederick de Witt, (ca.   1697).          Engraved bird's eye plan of the extensive gardens of Ter Nieuburch, built by Frederik Hendrik at Rijswijk near the Hague. Begun in the 1630s, Ter Nieuburch typified the Franco-Dutch classical baroque gardens of the mid-seventeenth century. Work on the gardens was largely completed before 1644, the year in which Milheusser first published this plan. The garden remained substantially unaltered for the next half century before receiving widespread fame throughout Europe as the site for the negotiation and signing of the Treaty of Rijswijk which ended the War of the Grand Alliance. To commemorate the treaty and respond to the renewed interest in Ter Nieuburch which it invoked, a new version of Milheusser's plan was engraved and printed. That is the version offered here. Although the main plan of the garden is unaltered, this new version differs from the earlier one in a few important respects. Unlike the 1644 version, the de Witt version includes a numbered key which identifies fourteen of the garden's features, a few of which are not otherwise identifiable. Also added to this version, in the upper right hand corner, is a view of the front of the palace including the entrance gardens and fore court. At the death of William III in 1702 the gardens were neglected and fell quickly into disrepair. The Milheusser plan is the only detailed contemporary plan of the garden to have been published.   49.5 x 66 cm.   BLMC Maps 32690 (6).          Two vertical folds; two small chips from margins and one short tear at extreme lower corner affecting border only; paper browned. $1,800.00

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