Klubbat för:

11000 SEK

Estimate

12 000-15 000 SEK

Description

VIEWS OF THE BALTICS (3). STAVENHAGEN, Wilhelm Siegfried (Ed.) Album Baltischer Ansichten. (=Series title on covers). (1-3.) Mitau, in Selbstverlag des Herausgegebers, (1857), 1866-67.

Large 4to (310x245 mm). Steel-engraved title, (132) ll., 29 steel-engraved plates, steel-engraved. title, (163) ll., 29 steel-engraved plates, steel-engraved title, (153) ll. 29 steel-engraved plates (complete, occasional foxing, text with some minor foxing or spotting).
Publisher´s original blue blind-stamped cloth, gilt spines and boards, partly worn and rubbed, some spots, front hinge and upper joints to volume 1 partly cracked, slightly loose in bindings. 3 volumes.

Winkelmann 455. Issued in 30 leaflets, each with text and 3 engraved plates, including the three title leaves, that all has an engraved view. Vol. 1: Album Livländischer Ansichten, gezeichnet und herausgegeben von Wilhelm Siegfried Stavenhagen in Mitau in Stahl gestochen und Gedruckt von G. G. Lange in Darmstadt. Mit erläuterndem Text von verschidenen Verfassern.
Vol. 2: Album Kurländischer Ansichten [...].
Vol 3: Album Ehstländischer Ansichten [...].
The views are engraved after drawings by Wilhelm Siegfried Stavenhagen (1814-81) and is considered his most important work. "Album Baltischer Ansichten" contains steel engravings after his drawings, showing monuments of the antiquity, manors, castles, panoramas of cities etc. Each illustration has a rather extensive explanation of the history of the object drawn in the illustration, by a number of authors.

Auktionsnummer:

6210

Date:

2016-06-21