Collection de Cinquante Vues du Rhin les Plus Interessantes et les Plus Pittoresques depuis Spire jusqu'a Dusseldorf dessinees sur les Lieux d'apres Nature. [Title repeated in German]
by JANSCHA, Laurens and ZIEGLER, Johann
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About This Item
Edinburgh: Paul Harris Publishing, 1980.. Limited edition, no. 769 of 775 copies. Folio. Publisher's dark green half morocco over paler green cloth, spine with raised bands, gilt lettered to one panel and decorated to the others, all edges gilt, matching green solander box with a gilt lettered circular morocco label to the upper panel, the prospectus loosely inserted. 50 colour plates with accompanying leaf of text. The box slightly dusty, slight spotting to the first title page, excellent condition overall. A fine facsimile of this beautiful work first published in Vienna in 1798, printed and bound at the Scolar Press, Ilkley.
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- Bookseller
- Bow Windows Bookshop (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 41942
- Title
- Collection de Cinquante Vues du Rhin les Plus Interessantes et les Plus Pittoresques depuis Spire jusqu'a Dusseldorf dessinees sur les Lieux d'apres Nature. [Title repeated in German]
- Author
- JANSCHA, Laurens and ZIEGLER, Johann
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Edinburgh: Paul Harris Publishing
- Date Published
- 1980.
- Keywords
- Travel Germany Rhine
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Bow Windows Bookshop has a large general stock of old and fine books and maps. Owned in partnership by Ric Latham and Jonathan Menezes, we buy and sell all manner of titles from early leatherbound volumes to modern first editions. We exhibit at bookfairs in the UK and North America and issue regular printed catalogues. Located in the beautiful county town of Lewes in the south-east of England, we are open six days a week. All our books are described as accurately as possible and we abide by the Code of Good Practice of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association
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- Morocco
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