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BARTH, Johann August (1765-1818). Pacis annis MDCCCXIV et MDCCCXV foederatis armis restitute monumentum orbis terrarum de fortuna reduce gaudia gentium linguis interpretans. Breslau: J. Barth, [1818].
2o (455 x 355 mm). Title-page with lithographed vignette in gold and colors, letterpress preface, 75 leaves mostly with lithograph borders printed in as many as five colors ["Moeso-Gothice" printed in metallic type on red glazed paper], one lithographed colophon leaf picturing a printing press and 5 leaves letterpress translation. (Some spotting.) Contemporary pink boards, covers with inset decorated paper panel, blue paper spine (a bit rubbed, endpapers renewed). Provenance: Tetschner Bibliothek (red inkstamp on title verso); purchased from Emil Offenbacher, 1949.
FIRST EDITION OF POSSIBLY THE EARLIEST BOOK USING MULTIPLE COLOR LITHOGRAPHY, published to celebrate the peace of 1814-15. It contains poems in about 100 different languages printed on the rectos only in a great variety of printing types. Barth was a well-known printed and publisher at Breslau and introduced lithography into Silesia. The present work first appeared in 1816 in a smaller edition containing only 43 poems and was printed in letterpress with colors added by hand, thus lacking the lavish lithographed decorations. This new edition is printed in colors using the new technique of "Steindruck." The decorations range from small headpieces to full-page designs. RARE: the last copy sold at auction according to American Book Prices Current was the Leonard B. Schlosser copy, Sotheby's New York, 18 June 1992, lot 514. Berlin 5356; Brunet I:673; Burch pp.175-77; Friedman 117; Graesse I:300; McLean p.74; Aloys Senefelder 38; Twyman (1990) p.129; PMM (1963) II:140.
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FIRST EDITION OF POSSIBLY THE EARLIEST BOOK USING MULTIPLE COLOR LITHOGRAPHY, published to celebrate the peace of 1814-15. It contains poems in about 100 different languages printed on the rectos only in a great variety of printing types. Barth was a well-known printed and publisher at Breslau and introduced lithography into Silesia. The present work first appeared in 1816 in a smaller edition containing only 43 poems and was printed in letterpress with colors added by hand, thus lacking the lavish lithographed decorations. This new edition is printed in colors using the new technique of "Steindruck." The decorations range from small headpieces to full-page designs. RARE: the last copy sold at auction according to American Book Prices Current was the Leonard B. Schlosser copy, Sotheby's New York, 18 June 1992, lot 514. Berlin 5356; Brunet I:673; Burch pp.175-77; Friedman 117; Graesse I:300; McLean p.74; Aloys Senefelder 38; Twyman (1990) p.129; PMM (1963) II:140.