Sale 6890
London
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7 - 8 April 2004
Price realised
GBP 1,554
Estimate
ALBERTI, Johann Christoph Ludwig (1768-1812). De Kaffers aan de Zuidkust van Afrika, Natur en Geschiedkundig beschreven door... Alberti. Amsterdam: E. Maaskamp. 1810. 8° (240 x 143mm). Errata leaf at end. Engraved title, folding hand-coloured aquatint map with integral view by L. Portman after Otto, Baron de Howen, 2 hand-coloured engraved plates by Portman after W. Paravicini di Capelli and J.Smies. Contemporary dark blue boards gilt, textured in imitation of straight-grained morocco, spine with light blue lettering-piece. marbled endpapers (joints splitting, lettering-piece slightly rubbed), 20th-century cloth slipcase. RARE: FIRST EDITION IN DUTCH, LARGE PAPER COPY with variant titles to the two plates, but without the album of large format plates referred to in the preface. (See lot 347 for the French edition of this album). Mendelssohn I,p.17; cf. Kennedy I,A16-A17 (variant titles and described by Kennedy as aquatints).
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