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Hoffmann und Campe Verlag, 1963. Hardcover. Fair/No Jacket. THIS BOOK IS IN GERMAN (but the images are its main content). Mit einer Einleitung von Friedrich Schnack. Panoramas of 46 European cities and their surroundings, drawn from the 1695 edition of Archontologia Cosmica and the Topographia by the Swiss engraver Matthaeus Merian (the Elder) earlier in the 17th century. The engravings are on fold-out panoramic pages. 8" x 10-1/2" (~20 cm x 26.5 cm), pictorial boards, dust soil to edges, Paris fold-out was creased in the wrong place and protrudes slightly. The condition "fair" is a compromise between the "good" interior and "poor" binding: the backstrip is entirely missing and the paper over boards is ragged along where the backstrip was. Gift inscription on the half-title, other pages unmarked.
TOPOGRAPHIA GERMANIAE by (FACSIMILE PUBLICATION - EARLY PRINTED BOOKS). MERIAN, MATTHAEUS - 1959-65
by (FACSIMILE PUBLICATION - EARLY PRINTED BOOKS). MERIAN, MATTHAEUS
TOPOGRAPHIA GERMANIAE
by (FACSIMILE PUBLICATION - EARLY PRINTED BOOKS). MERIAN, MATTHAEUS
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Kassel and Basel: Brenreiter-Verlag, 1959-65. 305 x 203 mm. (12 x 8"). 16 volumes. Publisher's vellum-like paper in shades of ivory, upper covers blindstamped with Habsburg double-headed eagle crest, flat spines with brown morocco labels. With hundreds of folding topographical plates. Front pastedown of Hesse volume inscribed in ink, "John A. A. des V. G. / Haywood." Occasional small marks to boards or smudges to edges, but essentially unused, and in virtually mint condition. This is an excellent facsimile of that portion of the famous "Topographia" series that covers the Germanic territories. The set contains reproductions of the volumes covering Swabia (1643), Hesse (1646), Westphalia (1647), Bohemia / Moravia / Silesia (1650), Upper Saxony (1650), Brandenburg and Pomerania (1652), Lower Saxony (1653), Switzerland (1654), Braunschweig and Lüneburg (1654), Franconia (1656), Austria (1656), Bavaria (1657), Burgundy and the Netherlands (1659), Alsace (1663), the Rhenish Palatinate (1672), and Mainz / Trier / Cologne (1675). The splendid and justly celebrated "Topographia" series of books was initiated by Merian (1593-1650), the famous Swiss engraver who became head of a prominent Frankfurt publishing house of the period. The series, continued by Merian's heirs to a grand total of some 30 folio volumes issued between 1642-88, contains the largest number of engraved views of towns, villages, and castles ever assembled. It is of primary importance for the knowledge of Central European topography of the baroque era, and it is of great interest because of the very considerable artistic value of its engravings.
- Bookseller Phillip J. Pirages Fine Books and Medieval Manuscripts (US)
- Book Condition Used
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- Publisher Brenreiter-Verlag
- Place of Publication Kassel and Basel
- Date Published 1959-65