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KLEINER, Salomon (ca.1703-1761). Représentation naturelle et exacte de la Favorite de Son Altesse Electorale de Mayence. Augsburg: the heirs of Jeremias Wolff, 1726.
Oblong 2° (315 x 480mm). Letterpress preface and engraved title, dedications and captions in French and German. Title, 2ll. dedication (the first with elaborate emblematic border), 14 engraved views and plans, 2 folding, by J.M.Steidlin, J.A.Delsenbach, J.A.Corvinus, J.G.Pinz after Kleiner. (Occasional marginal soiling or old light staining.) Contemporary half vellum (lightly soiled). Provenance: early inscriptions on front endpapers.
A FINE UNSOPHISTICATED COPY of these series of views of the palace of Archbishop Lothario Francisco, Elector of Mainz. The palace 'Favorita' was built on the banks of the Rhine: its interiors, exteriors and gardens are all here represented, from drawings by the 'Ingenieur' to the Electoral court, in charming detail. Berlin Kat. 3336.
Oblong 2° (315 x 480mm). Letterpress preface and engraved title, dedications and captions in French and German. Title, 2ll. dedication (the first with elaborate emblematic border), 14 engraved views and plans, 2 folding, by J.M.Steidlin, J.A.Delsenbach, J.A.Corvinus, J.G.Pinz after Kleiner. (Occasional marginal soiling or old light staining.) Contemporary half vellum (lightly soiled). Provenance: early inscriptions on front endpapers.
A FINE UNSOPHISTICATED COPY of these series of views of the palace of Archbishop Lothario Francisco, Elector of Mainz. The palace 'Favorita' was built on the banks of the Rhine: its interiors, exteriors and gardens are all here represented, from drawings by the 'Ingenieur' to the Electoral court, in charming detail. Berlin Kat. 3336.