Live auction - Lot 510
[Belgium - Germany]
Sketches in Belgium and Germany.
London, Hodgson & Graves, 1840 [- 1850]
€ 600 / 800
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Lot description
3 parts in 1 vol., folio: [4 incl. title], [4 incl. title], [6 incl. title] pp.; 76 pl. (some, mostly marg., spotting).
Contemp. half green shagreen, cloth boards, richly gilt spine with raised bands, a.e.g. (some scratches on boards, joints, head and tail sl. rubbed, corners sl. bumped).
Complete set (with the rare 3rd series) of 79 lithographies (incl. 3 titles, on tinted background in 1st & 2nd series, coloured in 3rd) depicting Belgium (i.a. baptismal font in the church Notre-Dame in Halle, tabernacle in the church Saint Peter in Leuven, screen in the cathedral of Tournai and of Ghent town hall) and Germany (cloisters at Regensburg, Church of Our Lady in Trier, St Sebaldus in Nuremberg, etc.). With the prospectus of the 3rd series.
Ref. Van der Marck 165-166.