Voyage Pittoresque Dans Les Pyrénées Françaises Et Les Départements Adjacents.
By MELLING, Antoine Ignace] ]1763-1831] (Illus.) & [CERVINI, Joseph Antoine] (Text).
oblong folio. ff. [2], 74. 66 aquatint plates by Benedikt Piringer & F.Slathé after sketches by Melling. contemporary bds. (worn, hinges & upper front joint cracked, some light foxing, few short marginal tears to first 2 leaves, former owner's small rubberstamp on title). Second Edition. The Voyage Pittoresque was the result of the German painter Melling's travels in the Pyrenees region in 1821 and is illustrated with a fine series of aquatints based on his original sepia watercolours, depicting picturesque views of the mountains, waterfalls, villages, grottoes, thermal baths, monuments, villages, chateaux, &c. Melling's intention was to demonstrate that the beauty of the Pyrenees rivalled that of the Swiss and Italian Alps. The first edition, published by Treuttel and Wurtz in 1826-30, contained seventy-two plates, a portrait, and a map, while the present edition is complete with sixty-six plates. cfBrunet III 1591-92. cfGraesse IV 473.
Published by: [Paris: Firmin Didot, c1850]., 1850
Vendor: D & E LAKE LTD. (ABAC/ILAB)
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By MELLING, Antoine Ignace] ]1763-1831] (Illus.) & [CERVINI, Joseph Antoine] (Text).
oblong folio. ff. [2], 74. 66 aquatint plates by Benedikt Piringer & F.Slathé after sketches by Melling. contemporary bds. (worn, hinges & upper front joint cracked, some light foxing, few short marginal tears to first 2 leaves, former owner's small rubberstamp on title). Second Edition. The Voyage Pittoresque was the result of the German painter Melling's travels in the Pyrenees region in 1821 and is illustrated with a fine series of aquatints based on his original sepia watercolours, depicting picturesque views of the mountains, waterfalls, villages, grottoes, thermal baths, monuments, villages, chateaux, &c. Melling's intention was to demonstrate that the beauty of the Pyrenees rivalled that of the Swiss and Italian Alps. The first edition, published by Treuttel and Wurtz in 1826-30, contained seventy-two plates, a portrait, and a map, while the present edition is complete with sixty-six plates. cfBrunet III 1591-92. cfGraesse IV 473.
Published by: [Paris: Firmin Didot, c1850]., 1850
Vendor: D & E LAKE LTD. (ABAC/ILAB)
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