Sale: 328 / Rare Books, Nov. 19./20. 2007 in Hamburg Lot 488

Meyer


488
Meyer's Universum
Meyer's Universum, 3 Bde. 1862-64.
Estimate:
€ 1,000 / $ 1,070
Sold:
€ 600 / $ 642

(incl. surcharge)
Meyer's Universum. Ein Jahrbuch für Freunde der Natur und Kunst. Edited by H. J. Meyer. 3 vols. With 3 engraved titles with vignette, 239 steel-engraved plates and 1 engraved folded map. Hildburghausen, Bibliogr. Institut 1862-1864. Contemp. half calf with romantic gilt spine. (orig. delivery wrappers bound in). 4to. 2 l., 296 pp.; 2 ll., 296 pp.; 2 ll., 323 pp.
Sarkowski 13 c, 34. - Marsch p. 65. - First edition of the so-called edition de-luxe. - With views of the Elbe, the Caucasus, Ulm, Meissen, Donau-Eschingen, Atlas Mountains, Schönnbrunn, lions, the Himalaya, Trifels, Lubeck, Rome, Wehlen, Vesuv, Eckernförde, Roumeyer, North Cape, Monte Casino, Tivoli, Würzburg, New York, Williamsburg, Philae, Miramar, Ancona, Breslau, Suez, Christiania, Morocco, Hamburg, Tromsoe and many more. - Margins foxed or browned (in vol. III the plates stronger affected). Outer joints scraped and partly torn, 1 upper spine end slightly damaged. Wide-margined copy with the orig. delivery wrappers.




488
Meyer's Universum
Meyer's Universum, 3 Bde. 1862-64.
Estimate:
€ 1,000 / $ 1,070
Sold:
€ 600 / $ 642

(incl. surcharge)