Meyer's Universum oder Abbildung und Beschreibung Sehenswerthesten und Merkwurdigsten der Natur und Kunst auf der ganzen erde. Zweiter Band.
by Meyer, [Joseph]
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good+ with no dust jacket
- Seller
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Dunedin, New Zealand, New Zealand
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About This Item
Australia. Good+ with no dust jacket. 1881. First Edition. Hardcover. Edge of spine and board rubbed. Loss of marbled paper along most of edges of boards. Front free endpaper missing. Plates fairly clean. Some finger marks to margins. Page edges a little rubbed.; Volume Two only. 112 pages + 47 plates (numbered from XXXXVII to LXXXXIII) . Half calf binding with marbled papered boards. Gilt decoration to spine. Marbled endpapers. Page dimensions: 261 x 183mm. Text is in German. The plates in this volume are (I have given some names here in English rather than German): Lisbon; Giant's Causeway, Ireland; Ruine Godesburg; bridge in Himalayas, Hindostan; Heidelberg; Newcastle upon Tyne; Mont St. Michel; Elephanta; Santa Maura; Lugo; Hindu Temple; Die Jungfrau; Gotha; Bellrock, near Liverpool; Der Mainzer Dom (this plate has been bound in upside-down); Jsola Bella; Salamis; Haag; Diodati; Olympus; New York; Naples; Der Felsen-Tempel; Brügge; London; Honfleur; Niagara Falls; Durham; Bonn; Interlacken; Temple of Theseus in Athens; Pantheon in Rome; Madras; Ithaca; Phul Temlpe in Egypt; Nantes; Ruins in Palmyra, Syria; Oporto; Ararat. ; 4to .
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- Bookseller
- Renaissance Books
(NZ)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 6146
- Title
- Meyer's Universum oder Abbildung und Beschreibung Sehenswerthesten und Merkwurdigsten der Natur und Kunst auf der ganzen erde. Zweiter Band.
- Author
- Meyer, [Joseph]
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good+ with no dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Place of Publication
- Australia
- Date Published
- 1881
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