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Pompeji. Die Neuesten Ausgrabungen von 1874 bis 1881: Fur Kunst- und Alterthumsfreunde
by Emile Presuhn
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/None
- Seller
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Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Item Price
€1,890.40€1,606.84
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About This Item
Very good copy of the "second and very popular edition" of Presuhn's souvenir of excavations in Pompeii from 1874-1881
In 10 sections with 80 chromolithographs by Victor Seeger and J.G. Bach after designs by Geremia Discanno and Miss Amy Butts.
Pompeii, the latest excavations from 1874 to 1881 for lovers of art and antiquities.
Along with murals from all four eras of interior design, the plates depict interior views, mythological wall paintings, floor mosaics, statues, plaster-casts of bodies, wall graffiti, plans of houses and the town.
Text in German.
Presuhn (1844-1881) was a German archeologist who lived and worked in Italy for almost decade from 1870 publishing books illustrating the latest murals, mosaics and discoveries made in the excavations in Pompeii.
Discanno (1839-1907) was an Italian artist and painter who worked in Naples and Pompeii.
Half brown leather binding with scuffed edges, spine with black and gold leather title labels, gilt title on green cloth covers, marbled endpapers. Slight browning to page edges, spotting and foxing to tissue guards, most plates clean and vivid but a few lightly spotted.
In 10 sections with 80 chromolithographs by Victor Seeger and J.G. Bach after designs by Geremia Discanno and Miss Amy Butts.
Pompeii, the latest excavations from 1874 to 1881 for lovers of art and antiquities.
Along with murals from all four eras of interior design, the plates depict interior views, mythological wall paintings, floor mosaics, statues, plaster-casts of bodies, wall graffiti, plans of houses and the town.
Text in German.
Presuhn (1844-1881) was a German archeologist who lived and worked in Italy for almost decade from 1870 publishing books illustrating the latest murals, mosaics and discoveries made in the excavations in Pompeii.
Discanno (1839-1907) was an Italian artist and painter who worked in Naples and Pompeii.
Half brown leather binding with scuffed edges, spine with black and gold leather title labels, gilt title on green cloth covers, marbled endpapers. Slight browning to page edges, spotting and foxing to tissue guards, most plates clean and vivid but a few lightly spotted.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Florilegius
(JP)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- Flo190
- Title
- Pompeji. Die Neuesten Ausgrabungen von 1874 bis 1881
- Author
- Emile Presuhn
- Illustrator
- Geremia Discanno, Emile Presuhn, Amy Butts
- Format/Binding
- Half brown leather, green cloth, marbled endpapers
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- None
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 2nd
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- T.O. Weigel
- Place of Publication
- Leipzig
- Date Published
- 1882
- Size
- Quarto, 33 x 26cm
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Emile Presuhn, Pompeii, mural, wall painting, Roman, architecture, interior design, classical, Discanno, Victor Steeger, chromolithograph,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Ancient History;
Terms of Sale
Florilegius
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About the Seller
Florilegius
Biblio member since 2019
Tokyo, Tokyo
About Florilegius
Tokyo-based bookseller specializing in European illustrated books from the 18th to 19th century, mainly botanical, zoological, costume and travel. Also Japanese ukiyo-e and woodblock botanicals, flower arrangement, etc.
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