TRESOR AM ROEMER SHORT TITLE-LIST OF ... - Tresor am Römer

XXVI, 104. Extensively illustrated work on historical buildings in Rome. Overbeke (around 1660-
1706), stayed between 1680 and 1700 several times in Rome and spent the years till his death
engraving his drawings of Rome, which were published by his cousin in 1708. Plates provide
views of churches, ruines, gates, bridges, etc. Engraved frontispice and dedication are lacking.
Margins slightly soilde, some foxing, vol. 1 slightly waterstained at margins, beginning at lower
right corner a bit stronger. Copy with wide margins.
21 PASSAVANT, J(ohann) D(avid). Kunstreise durch England und Belgien nebst einem Bericht
über den Bau des Domthurms zu Frankfurt am Main. Frankfurt, Siegmund Schmerber, 1833.
8vo. IX, 463 pp., with 10 (3 folded) steel-engraving or lithograph plates. Contemporary half calf
with gilt-stamped label and gilt back. Gilt-stamped monogram ‘MR’ on front cover, letters
intertwined and crowned (slightly worn). £ 390.00
First edition, rare. - ADB 25, 198ff. Contains descriptions of London’s most famous sights (British
Museum, National Gallery, Hampton Court, Windsor, Buckingham House, etc.) as well as of
private painting collections; descriptions of Salisbury, Oxford and Liverpool, etc. Moreover, the
volume contains a “Directory of Art Collections in England’s Country Houses“ ("Verzeichnis der
Kunstsammlungen in den Landsitzen Englands"), gives a detailed survey of the Fine Arts in
England and talks about the art scene in Belgium and the Lower Rhine ("Kunstnachrichten aus
Belgien und vom Niederrhein"). On pp. 182-184 an early account of a railway journey from
Liverpool to Manchester even before the opening of the first railway line in Germany. The
Frankfurt citizen Passavant (1787-1861) is regarded as one of the founders of the modern
science of art and museum. During his time as director, the “Städel“ museum in Frankfurt
acquired lots of important works. The monogram on the front cover is of Mary of Saxony-
Altenburg who was the last Queen of Hanover. After the coronation of her husband Georg V. of
Hanover she used the initials MR (Maria Regina) with a crown hovering above them. A little
foxed, small name stamp on inside cover.
22 PIRANESI, Francesco. (Monumenti degli Scipioni). (Paris), after 1800. Great-Folio. 6 engraved
plates. Contemporary half calf, back richly gilt, (slightly worn, bottom of spine bumped). £
1.000.00
Published as volume V of the complete works of G.B. Piranesis. Kat. Ornamentstichslg. Berlin
1878; vgl. Hind S. 89. This Paris-edition was published without text. Series of 6 plates, showing
the grave of the Scipiones in Rome, which was discovered by the archaeologist Ennio Quirino in
1780. Francesco Piranesi, son of famous Giovanni Battista Piranesi, worked primarily together
with his father and published his works posthumously. Drawings by G.B.Piranesi are presumably
the origin of these plates. -Very nice French binding with bookplate of "...Tessier, relieur et
doreur de la Trésorerie nationale..." Some minor stockings.
23 PISSIS, A. Geografía Física de la República de Chile. Text and atlas in 2 vols. Paris, Delagrave,
1875. 8vo. and oblong-4to. X pp., 1 unn. l., 356 pp.; 2 unn. ll., with 1 lithographed map and 22 (3
coloured) lithographed plates. Original half calf with coat of arms, gilt, (slightly worn, textvolume
spotted and stronger worn). £1.400.00
First edition, complete rare. Palau 227450; Henze IV, 125 ff. Main work of the cartographer and
geologist Pedro Amado Pissis Marin (1812-1889). It combines the findings of his travels through
all parts of Chile in 1848 and 1868. "Nebst Phillipi hat Pissis gewiß den größten Anteil an der
wissenschaftlichen Erschließung Chiles in der zweiten Hälfte des 19. Jahrhunderts." (Henze).
With a map of South America, profiles of altitude, a coloured plate of the massif of the
Aconcagua, more illustrations of Andenous mountains, the spring of river Lontue, the volcano
Chillan, and a coloured plate of the volcanic crater of Antuco, lava of the Osorno, an illustration
of a glacier, etc. The text explains in detail the orography, geology, meteorology, hydrography
and botanical geography of Chile. Textvolume waterstained at margins, name on title, atlas with
stamp on title, some minor foxing.
24 PITT, Moses. The English Atlas. Vol. II (and III): Containing the description of Empire of
Germany. 2 Bde. London, for Moses Pitt, 1681-1683. Large-Folio. Engraved coloured portrait,
engraved coloured title, 2 unn. ll., 151 pp., 40 unn. ll.; engraved coloured portrait, 2 unn. ll., p.
157-312, 37 unn. ll., with 90 (4 folded and 85 double-page) border coloured copper engraved
maps,. Contemporary calf with label, (rubbed, hinges and end of spine restored). £ 10.000.00
First and only edition. Koemann II, Me 183. The 2 available volumes contain the complete part of
Germany including the areas which belonged to the Holy Roman Empire, like Bohemia, Austria,