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AUGUST SELB (1812-1859) AND AUGUST TISCHBEIN (1805-c.1867)
Memorie di un viaggio pittorico ne littorale Austriaco. Trieste: for the authors, 1842. 2° (585 x 440mm). Lithographed title, frontispiece, map and 42 plates lithographed by Kunz and Linassi, after Selb and Tischbein. (Some mostly marginal spotting, this more pronounced in the title.) Contemporary moiré cloth binding, the upper cover with a large green morocco label lettered in gilt, brown coated endpapers (some wear at the spine ends, extremities rubbed, front hinge starting, endpapers creased). Provenance: Emily, Marchioness of Lansdowne (1819-1895).
FIRST EDITION. A rare series of views of Trieste and the coastline of the Istrian peninsula, then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. August Tischbein exhibited in Vienna between 1842 and 1867 and was known as a painter of landscapes, architecture and genre; all are represented here. The plates are imperfectly signed but it appears that they are all the work of Selb after Tischbein's originals. RARE: we could trace only two copies at auction in the past 50 years (the Feltrinelli copy, Christie's, 3 December 1997, lot 364; and Sotheby's, 25 June 1960, lot 433).
Memorie di un viaggio pittorico ne littorale Austriaco. Trieste: for the authors, 1842. 2° (585 x 440mm). Lithographed title, frontispiece, map and 42 plates lithographed by Kunz and Linassi, after Selb and Tischbein. (Some mostly marginal spotting, this more pronounced in the title.) Contemporary moiré cloth binding, the upper cover with a large green morocco label lettered in gilt, brown coated endpapers (some wear at the spine ends, extremities rubbed, front hinge starting, endpapers creased). Provenance: Emily, Marchioness of Lansdowne (1819-1895).
FIRST EDITION. A rare series of views of Trieste and the coastline of the Istrian peninsula, then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. August Tischbein exhibited in Vienna between 1842 and 1867 and was known as a painter of landscapes, architecture and genre; all are represented here. The plates are imperfectly signed but it appears that they are all the work of Selb after Tischbein's originals. RARE: we could trace only two copies at auction in the past 50 years (the Feltrinelli copy, Christie's, 3 December 1997, lot 364; and Sotheby's, 25 June 1960, lot 433).