scandinavia first part (3 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Photo album. Oblong quarto. Measuring approximately 13" x 9¼". Half leather and pebbled cloth over boards with all edges gilt, and spine and cover titled in gilt. Bookplate of newspaper publisher and founder of the *Chicago Daily News* Melville E. Stone by Friedrich Haffcke on the front pastedown. Contains 43 cardstock leaves with 124 gelatin silver photographs laid down, measuring from approximately 2" x 3½ to approximately 10½" x 7½", about half of which contain brief inked captions. Boards with some rubbing and wear, leaves gently rippled, a few photographs with modest lightening at the edges or in a tiny bit of the image, overall very good or better. A handsome, likely professionally produced, tourist album for a turn-of-the-century trip to Scandinavia, the journey presumably taken by newspaper publisher Melville E. Stone and company. The images are roughly broken into three parts: over half consist of landscapes, architectural shots, group shots, and portraits, which tend to be the largest images; 18 photographs of classical sculpture, which tend to be mid-sized; and 33 photographs of gargoyle heads, all measuring approximately 2" x 3½". Highlights include handsome architectural shots and street views; images of classical sculpture (as well as the 33 folksy carved gargoyle heads); an image of the Christiana public market in full swing; and nicely composed scenes of nature. Perhaps of most note are the approximately 22 images of native Scandinavians dressed in what appear to be homemade fur clothes; several images featuring reindeer, dogs, and babies in homemade bassinets. Two native group portraits are taken around a house, each with someone sitting on the roof. Two group portraits of the travelers feature intruding reindeer. The images, nicely composed and often taken from the perfect distant vantage point, are likely professionally made; Stone likely chose the images he liked and, combined with several candid group shots of his co-travelers, created a very nice souvenir. A visually striking album featuring Scandinavian art, architecture, and people around the turn of the century.

Hardcover. Zustand: g to vg. First edition. Large quarto (11 1/4 x 9"). [2], xxviii, xxiii, [1], 812pp; xix, [13], 715pp, [1]pp (Errata), [2]pp (Publisher's advertisement); [2], xv, [12], 20, 822pp; [2], xx, [14], 735pp, [1]pp (Errata); xii, [14], 763pp, [1]pp (Errata); [2], iv, [14], 555, [1]pp. Modern half black morocco over dark grey cloth, with gold lettering and ruling to spines. Raised bands. First volume with a striking tissue-guarded frontispiece portrait of the author engraved by Richard Golding, after a painting by John Opie. Tissue-guarded engraved frontispiece in each volume. First edition of Edward Daniel Clarke's magnum opus "Travels in Various Countries of Europe, Asia and Africa" the author's personal account of a fascinating journey throughout three continents. Following a tour of Scandinavia in 1799, Edward Daniel Clarke (1769-1822) travelled through Russia and the Crimea before proceeding to Constantinople, Rhodes, and afterwards Egypt and Palestine. Greece was the country next visited. While touring this country, Clarke, as a mineralogist and antiquary, collected marbles, coins and vases and purchased a large ancient statue at Eleusis. From Athens he proceeded by land to Constantinople, and after a short stay in that city directed his course homewards through Rumelia, Austria, Germany and France. Each of the six volumes is lavishly illustrated throughout with numerous in-text vignettes and woodcuts, as well as full-page copper plates (many folded), depicting views, monuments, natives in traditional costume, ceremonies and processions, antiquities, etc. Includes several folded maps and charts. All the 185 copper plates and 157 vignettes and cuts are accounted for. Plates engraved by Joseph Skelton, R. Pollard, Laetitia and Elizabeth Byrne, F. R. Hay, J. Fittler, and R. Cooper after illustrations by E. D. Clarke, Angelica Clarke, Guarenghi, Martin, Dreier, W. Havell, Camporesi, J. B. Lusieri, Morritt, W. Harraden, Grelot, Fauvel, G. Wilkins, Henry Wrighte, and Preaux. Most of the delightful vignettes were engraved by Elizabeth and Laetitia Byrne. The maps and plans were engraved by S. I. Neele, and H. Mutlow. Some offsetting to text pages facing plates. Moderate to heavy foxing to plates throughout. Minor foxing to text pages. Sporadic clear water-staining along edges of plates in second volume (Part 2, section 1). Ex-library copy with perforating library stamp to each title page, and small reference stamp at inner gutter of the first text leaf of each volume (not affecting lettering). Bindings in overall very good, interior in good to very good condition.

, 5 substantial volumes in fine bindings each of over 740 pages with introductions and contents pages, each volume has a frontispiece, that to vol.4 being hand coloured in red, there are a total of 164 engraved plates including 10 folding maps [ up to 60 x 50 cm in size ], 5 double page maps and 8 single page maps and plans, plates include double page and folding panoramas, Vol.2 has plans and details of the Napoleonic battles of Abercromby's campaign in Egypt, including a hand coloured order of battle and map of the Battle for Rossetta with colour detail Second Edition of First part, First Editions of others , both boards detached on volume 1 and 4, front boards detached on volumes 3, other volumes have cracked joints and thus boards loosely held, scuffed at spines, some scuffs to boards, gilt remains bright on boards, previous owner's bookplates on front pastedowns, few plates just lightly tanned but overall pages and plates nice and clean, internally in very good condition , full brown calf with ornate gilt borders to covers, gilt gauffered edges, gilt rulings to internal leather, four raised bands with gilt detail, gilt title and ornaments to compartments, green endpapers, all edges gilt, ribbon marker Quarto (over 10 - 12 inches tall) Hardback ISBN: