Jun 19, 2008 - Sale 2150

Sale 2150 - Lot 21

Price Realized: $ 3,360
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 5,000 - $ 7,500
MERIAN, MATTHAEUS. Provinciarum Astriacarum . . . Anhang der Topographiae . . . Absonderliche Beschreibung. [2], [4], 90, [10]; 52, [8]; 14, [2] pages. 90 (of 94); 14; 10 engraved plates. Bound with--Topographia Bohemiae, Moraviae et Silesiae. 192, [15] pages. 35 (of 37) engraved plates. Together, 2 volumes in one. Text by Martin Zeiler. Small folio, early calf, spine ends frayed, rubbed; insect damage along the bottom of most fore-edges, extending from bottom of sheets upward for about 70-mm and breaching the volume to a depth of about 20-mm, with subsequent loss on images of about 20 plates, view of Prague in second volume affected with loss to image at both right and left and with an unsightly ink stain on the image. should be seen. Frankfurt, 1736; 1650 [i.e. about 1700]

Additional Details

Seventh Edition of the first title; Fourth Edition of the second title. Wüthrich 49-49b; 54.