DAHLBERG'S SUECIA ANTIQUA ET HODIERNA standing folio (2).
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DAHLBERG, ERIK. Suecia antiqua et hodierna. I-III. About 1680-1718.
Standing folio. 318 x 220 mm. 312 engraved plates (of 355, not complete), of which 34 folding and 210 double-page.. Worn near contemporary calf with gilt spines and raised bands (Sven Brohielm, according to note by Arvid Hedberg). Stains, repairs, occasional notes in margins, many of which dated 1808. Owner's signature of Arre Essén, who notes that he inherited the workn in january 1916. 2 volumes.
Collijn, Sveriges Bibliografi, 1600-talet, col. 197. Berlin Cat. 1, 2256. Gustaf Edvard Klemming, Ur en antecknares samlingar, Uppsala 1880-82, pp. 165-8. Sten G. Lindberg, Swedish Books, 37.
During his military service and studies in Germany, Erik Dahlberg (16251703) became acquainted with Matthaeus Merian the younger, the publisher of "Theatrum Europaeum" and the "Topographies". On his return to Sweden in 1661, Dahlberg obtained a privilege from the Government to make drawings for a similar publication. The engravings for this work were executed from these drawings by a total of 18 artists except for a few which were based on drawings by David Klöcker Ehrenstrahl and Elias Brenner. The project began in 1667, when a number of plates were engraved by Nicolas and Adam Perelle, Jean Marot, Jean Le Pautre and F. Campion in Paris.
Dionysius Padt Brugge engraved 9 plates in Stockholm 1686-87. In 1687 Dahlberg approached another Dutch engraver, Willem Swidde, who produced 84 plates together with Erik Reitz and Martin Mytens. After Padt Brugge's death, in 1696, he was succeeded by Johannes Van den Aveelen, who came to Stockholm in 1698. He made no less than 144 engravings. Samuel von Blesendorf in Berlin was employed for the portraits, amongst others.
Arre Essén (1886-1969) was a Swedish architect, who, as a municipal architect in Västervik, actively resisted official tendencies to demolish and modernize, and worked successfully (where, under the same period, older buildings in the smaller towns of Sweden perished) for the preservation of older architecture.
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