May 15, 2012 - Sale 2279

Sale 2279 - Lot 290

Price Realized: $ 360
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 500
APPELL, JOHANN WILHELM. Le Rhin et ses Bords depuis les Alpes jusqu'à Mayence. Volume 1 (of 2), bound in 2. 146 (of ?) engraved plates, including additional title, depicting scenery along the Rhine * SYLVA, CARMEN [pseud. of Queen Elizabeth of Romania]. Mein Rhein! . . . Vierte Auflage. 20 mounted photographic plates of Rhine views; pictorial borders and divisional tailpieces by Karl Emil Doepler the Younger. Together, 3 volumes. 8vo, first work in contemporary green morocco gilt, second in publisher's elaborately gilt-blocked cloth with minor surface imperfections on rear cover; scattered foxing in first work minimally affecting plates, contents of second work clean, with only a later owner's inscription on front flyleaf. Darmstadt & Paris, 1854; Leipzig, late 19th century