?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
BARTH, JOHANN AUGUST. Pacis annis MDCCCXV foederatis armis restituta monumentum orbis terrarumde fortuna reduce guadia gentium linguis interpretans principibus piis felicibus augustis populisque victoribus liberatoribus liberatis dicatum. Title-page with lithographed vignette in gold and colors, letterpress preface, 75 leaves of letterpress printing in various languages, mostly with decorative lithographed borders printed in as many as six colors ("Moeso-Gothice" printed in metallic type on red glazed paper), one lithographed colophon leaf picturing a printing press and 5 leaves letterpress translation. Folio, original boards with printed color cover inlays, early rebacking, boards scuffed and worn; scattered foxing throughout, heaviest on endleaves, some offsetting. Breslau: J. Barth, (1818)
first edition of one of the earliest volumes to print in chromolithography. The poems printed here, in over 100 languages and with borders characteristic of each country, celebrate the Holy Alliance of 1815 following the defeat of Napoleon. The first edition was printed in 1816 with only 43 poems and hand-colored ornamental borders printed from wood or metal. This second edition replaced those with lithographed designs printed in colors. It was an independent effort by Barth and no similar use of lithography appeared again until the early publications of Thomas Shotter Boys and Owen Jones--Friedman 117. Aloys Senefelder 38; Berlin 5356; Brunet I:673.
