Ideen Magazin fuer Architecten, Kuenstler und Handwerker die mit der Baukunst zu thun haben, wie auch für Bauherrn und Gartenbesitzer ... Neue Auflage

by GROHMANN, Johann Gottfried (1763-1805) and Friedrich Gotthelf BAUMGÄRTNER (1759-1848), editors

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Leipzig: Baumgärtner's Buchhandlung, [1835-1845]. 60 original parts bound in 5 volumes, quarto. (10 1/2 x 8 3/4 inches). Explanatory letterpress text in French and German on inside covers of wrappers. Engraved title and 360 engraved plates. (vol.III parts 10, 11 and 12 present but bound out of order). Contemporary green embossed patterned cloth-backed marbled paper-covered boards, the flat spines divided into five compartments by gilt fillets, lettered in the second compartment, numbered in the fourth, original green/blue paper to all 60 parts wrappers bound in, all contained within a single green morocco-backed cloth box, spine gilt. A complete copy of the re-issue of this valuable work for 'architects, artists and craftsmen' on architecture garden design and decoration. A very rare work originally published around the turn of the 19th century. This edition is complete with one engraved title (to the first volume) - the wrappers serving as titles to the subsequent volumes, and is a selection of the most important plates as is noted on the rear cover of the wrapper to the first part ("In dieser neuen Ausgabe des Ideen-Magazins wird nur aus den ältern Werken das gezogen, welches geschmackvoll, zeitgemäss und anwendbar ist; alles Uebrige davon wird bei Seite gelegt werden"). The original edition consisted of parts 1-48 of the Ideen Magazin and parts 1-12 of the Neues Ideen--Magazin, with a total of 555 plates. Only two copies of the present edition are listed on OCLC, and there are no other copies listed as having sold at auction in the past thirty-five years. Grohmann was Professor of Philosophy at Leipzig, and the prolific author of a number of works on architecture and the decorative arts. The work was continued briefly after his death in 1805 by the publisher F. G. Baumgärtner. The plates illustrate a broad range of buildings, landscapes, grottoes and garden furnishings drawn from an eclectic range of sources and styles both western and eastern (English, Gothic, Chinese, etc. according to the titles), classical and rustic. The work was published for 'Admirers of English gardens [tr.]' and for landowners wishing to 'ornament' their properties. OCLC (2 copies recorded under two numbers) 72486335; 173700274

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