Live auction - Lot 923
[Germany - Rhine]
Beknopte beschrijving van den Rhijn-stroom, benevens de steden, dorpen en plaatsen, aan deszelfs oevers gelegen [...]. Tweede, verbeterde en vermeerderde, druk.
Amsterdam, A.B. Saakes, 1796
€ 1.200 / 1.500
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Lot description
4to: [4 incl. front.]-58 pp.; 24 pl. (sm. tear in fold of map, occ. spotting).
Publisher's cardboard (soiled, spine partly missing, corners bumped). Uncut copy.
Second, enlarged ed. (1st 1794) of this description of the course of the Rhine from Switzerland to the Dutch coast. Ill. with a double-page front. with a view of the source of the Rhine, a folding, hand-coloured map, 13 double-page and 20 half-page (on 10 ff.) views with captions. The informative description closes with a poem of Arend Fokke Simonsz (1755-1812).
Ref. Tiele 122. - STCN.