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Tranquillo Mollo
(Bellinzona 1767 - 1837 Bellinzona)
„Wien's vorzüglichste Gebäude and Monumente. Les principaux batiments et monuments de Vienne. - Wien's Umgebungen. Les environs de Vienne. 2 vol.“
Vienna, Tranquillo Mollo, (c. 1825-30)
Two engraved titles with vignettes and 139 aquatint-engravings by Eduard and Joseph Gurk and others, beautiful original colouring, trimmed, with titles, publisher's adress and numbers, mounted on grey cardboard with handmade framework; image approx. 10 x 14 cm, sheet size (cardboard) 26 x 34 cm.
vol. I.: 75 (of 79) plates; without 76 (K.K. Hauptmauth), 77 (Schiffbade-Anstalt), 78 (Carls Brücke), 79 (Wien [Vienna von the Spinnerin am Kreuz]); vol. II.: 64 (of 66) plates; without 65 (Urtelstein), 66 (Giraffe in Schönbrunn); pl. 30 (Prater/Bey den Wirthshäusern) without title or number.
Luxury edition in half leather boxes, back with title on label and gold tooling, slightly rubbed and bruised, oblong sized fol.
Provenance
private collection, Germany
Nebehay-Wagner 428/429. - One of the rarest and probably most beautiful and comprehensive Viennese landscape works of the Biedermeier period.
Estimate: € 5.000 - 10.000
Result: € 9.600 (incl. fees)
Auction is closed.