Lot 529
C. Strahlheim, Die Wundermappe. Zweite Haupt-Abtheilung: Asien. 2 Vol. Frankfurt 1837-39.
Estimate
€ 200
Starting Price
€ 140
Lot:
529
Category:
Geography and work of views
Artist:
C. (d. i. Johann Konrad Friederich) Strahlheim
Strahlheim, C. (d. i. Johann Konrad Friederich): Die Wundermappe oder sämmtliche Kunst- und Natur-Wunder des ganzen Erdballs. Zweite Haupt-Abtheilung: Asien. 2 Vol. Frankfurt am Main: Comptoir für Literatur und Kunst 1837-39. 23,3 x 15 cm. With 1 title plate in copper, 1 title plate in steel engraving and 96 engraved plates. 375; 400 pp. Red half-leather, with gold-embossed section titles on the spine.
(Worn copy. Corners and capitals reinforced or restored with linen. Endpapers replaced. Series titles browned and stained. Inside, a few small marginal defects. Vol. 1 is more heavily browned from folio 22 onwards; otherwise, both volumes are slightly browned and show only occasional age spots.)
Andres I, 8. - The complete second main section of this popular science series, written in the spirit of the early 19th-century accounts of the world. - The first volume covers Babylonia, Assyria, Syria, Phoenicia, Palestine, Arabia and Asia Minor; the second volume contains descriptions of Persia, the East Indies, Burma, Siam, Tibet, China and Japan.
(Worn copy. Corners and capitals reinforced or restored with linen. Endpapers replaced. Series titles browned and stained. Inside, a few small marginal defects. Vol. 1 is more heavily browned from folio 22 onwards; otherwise, both volumes are slightly browned and show only occasional age spots.)
Andres I, 8. - The complete second main section of this popular science series, written in the spirit of the early 19th-century accounts of the world. - The first volume covers Babylonia, Assyria, Syria, Phoenicia, Palestine, Arabia and Asia Minor; the second volume contains descriptions of Persia, the East Indies, Burma, Siam, Tibet, China and Japan.