TISCHBEIN, August Anton and August SELB. Memoire di un viaggio pittorico nel littorale Austriaco. Trieste: 1842. 2° (529 x 398mm). Parallel text in Italian and German (each page of text on thin paper, most printed recto only, all within an ornamental border). Tinted lithographic portrait of Archduke Stephen of Austria, hand-coloured lithographic dedication, 42 fine hand-coloured lithographic plates, most heightened with gum arabic (comprising one double-page view of Trieste, 23 single-page views, 18 costume plates), by Selb after Tischbein, one hand-coloured lithographic map. (Portrait torn and repaired at lower margin, small tear to fold of double-page view, some light old marginal dampstaining, obtrusive browning or spotting to title and about six plates.) Contemporary red calf gilt, gilt turn-ins, lilac embossed endpapers, g.e. (scuffed, some neat repairs to joints and corners). A rare series of views of Trieste and the coastline of the Istrian peninsula, then part of the Austro-Hungarian empire. August Tischbein exhibited in Vienna between 1842 and 1867 and was known as a painter of landscapes, architecture and genre ; all are represented here. The work was evidently a close collaboration between Selb and Tischbein (the 15th plate shows the two artists, one sketching, the second offering advice) and unusually they also seem to have been the publishers (each of the plates bears an oval blindstamp with 'S. & T.' surrounded by the legend 'Reise.i.Oester.Kustenlande' around the edge). The plates are imperfectly signed but it would appear that they are all the work of Selb after Tischbein's originals.
TISCHBEIN, August Anton and August SELB. Memoire di un viaggio pittorico nel littorale Austriaco. Trieste: 1842. 2° (529 x 398mm). Parallel text in Italian and German (each page of text on thin paper, most printed recto only, all within an ornamental border). Tinted lithographic portrait of Archduke Stephen of Austria, hand-coloured lithographic dedication, 42 fine hand-coloured lithographic plates, most heightened with gum arabic (comprising one double-page view of Trieste, 23 single-page views, 18 costume plates), by Selb after Tischbein, one hand-coloured lithographic map. (Portrait torn and repaired at lower margin, small tear to fold of double-page view, some light old marginal dampstaining, obtrusive browning or spotting to title and about six plates.) Contemporary red calf gilt, gilt turn-ins, lilac embossed endpapers, g.e. (scuffed, some neat repairs to joints and corners). A rare series of views of Trieste and the coastline of the Istrian peninsula, then part of the Austro-Hungarian empire. August Tischbein exhibited in Vienna between 1842 and 1867 and was known as a painter of landscapes, architecture and genre ; all are represented here. The work was evidently a close collaboration between Selb and Tischbein (the 15th plate shows the two artists, one sketching, the second offering advice) and unusually they also seem to have been the publishers (each of the plates bears an oval blindstamp with 'S. & T.' surrounded by the legend 'Reise.i.Oester.Kustenlande' around the edge). The plates are imperfectly signed but it would appear that they are all the work of Selb after Tischbein's originals.
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