LUTGERS, Petrus Josephus.

Gezigten aan de Rivier de Vecht naar de natuur geteekend en op steen overgebragt.[Loenen, Amsterdam, and Utrecht], [P.J. Lutgers, Buffa & Sons, J. & L. Caramelli & Co.] (views printed by Desguerrois & Co.), 1831-1836. Folio. With a lithographed title-page (with a separately lithographed view, 11.5 x 15.5 cm) and 86 lithographed views (27.5 x 38 cm) on fine Chinese paper mounted on heavier paper leaves. In 17 instalments, all with the original pink lithographed wrappers. Nineteenth-century half dark green morocco, gold-tooled spine, green and brown marbled sides flecked with gold, marbled en...

(18) ll. + lithographed title-page and 86 plates. Picarta (5 copies).A rare complete copy ofLutgers' first topographical work, with 86 lithographed plates depicting various mansions and estates along the river Vecht. The plates were published in 17 parts, each containing 5 lithographed plates and a brief explanatory letterpress text occupying one side of a single leaf, plus one additional plate in part 13. The parts in the present copy are dated as follows: 2 (1831), 1 & 3-8 (1832), 9-11 (1833), 12-14 (1834), 15-16 (1835) and 17 (1636), but in some copies part 2 is dated 1832. The title-page (dated 1836) was published in 1836 together with a letterpress introduction (printed on both sides of a single leaf) as part 18, but these two leaves have been bound at the beginning as intended. All plates have been lithographed on very thin 'Chine Appliquée' paper which has been pasted onto heavier leaves. The wrappers are here bound in around their plates, with the title and preliminary leaf added to part 1. We have located only one other complete copy with the original wrappers. The wrappers to parts 2-18 give the title almost exactly as the title-page, but part 1 is printed from a different stone, with the title, "Gezigten te Loendersloot, op Steen Geteekend."In fine condition. Hinges slightly worn and patches of the morocco faded to brown. With the engraved bookplate of Rudolf Hugo Driessen & Caroline E. F. Klein. Lutgers' first topographical work, with all plates in their original lithographed wrappers.

• EUR 7,500.00 > Andere Währungen
• Bestellnummer: 93TAFI01U79O

• Antiquariat: Asher Rare Books (Since 1830) (NETHERLANDS)