Auction House

Auction: Old Master Paintings

23. October 2018, 3:00 pm

Object overview
Object

0157

„(Topographia Italiae. Das ist warhaffte und curiöse Beschreibung von gantz Italien. Darinnen nach historischer Warheit, die berühmtesten Städte, Vestungen, Marckflecken und andere Oerter, sampt ihren Antiquitäten ... Deme beygefügt, eine kurtze und aussführliche Beschreibung derer im Königreich Morea befindenden vornehmsten Städte und Plätze …, Frankfurt, Matthäus Merian, 1688)“

Provenance

private collection, Vienna

Estimate: € 500 - 1.000
Result: € 512 (incl. fees)
Auction is closed.

(12), 214, (26) pp., with 25 (of 53) engraved maps and copperplate engravings; binding slightly loosened; drawing of a coat of arms with watercolour and pen (c. 1700) on the inner side of the cover, partly deleted owner's stamp on the inner side of the cover and on the first page, handwritten inscriptions with pen and a drawing with pencil on the back endpaper, title missing, first layers creased, one half of the fourth map missing (torn out), some pages slightly torn, some stuck from the back, some pages slightly stained at the edges, some pages stained near the spine; contemporary vellum, slightly rubbed and bumped, stained, cut on the front cover, partly broken at the edges and at the spine, red speckled edges, 4°
Schuchhard, 99.A; first edition