Aus Schinkel's Nachlass. Reisetagebucher, Briefe und Aphorismen. Mitgetheilt und mit einem Verzeichnis sammtlicher Werke Schinkel's versehen.
by SCHINKEL. Wolzogen, Alfred Freiherr von
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Berlin.: Verlag der koniglichen Geheimen Ober-Hofbuchdruckerei (R. Decker)., 1862 - 1864.. Original embossed cloth, gilt spines.. 8vo. 4 vols. bound in 3.. pp. xxii + (2), 302, (2), with two mounted photo plates; vii, (1), 359, (1), with two mounted photo plates, one folding printed table, one folding leaf with facsimile of handwriting; xix, (1), 411, (1), with one mounted photo plate, two folding litho plates, one folding printed table; xv, (1), 616. The essential 19th century source book for the career and architectural work of Karl Friedrich Schinkel, the dominant figure in German architecture for much of the first forty years of the century.Von Wolzogen, Schinkel's son-in-law, prints in these four volumes Schinkel's surviving travel journals, recording visits by him to Italy, France and England; family and other correspondence, including all the important documents relating to Schinkel's celebrated design for the Altes Museum in Berlin; and a complete and very useful catalogue of Schinkel's surviving architectural drawings.
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- Bookseller
- Sims Reed Rare Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 20972
- Title
- Aus Schinkel's Nachlass. Reisetagebucher, Briefe und Aphorismen. Mitgetheilt und mit einem Verzeichnis sammtlicher Werke Schinkel's versehen.
- Author
- SCHINKEL. Wolzogen, Alfred Freiherr von
- Format/Binding
- Original embossed cloth, gilt spines.
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Verlag der koniglichen Geheimen Ober-Hofbuchdruckerei (R. Decker).
- Place of Publication
- Berlin.
- Date Published
- 1862 - 1864.
- Size
- 8vo. 4 vols. bound in 3.
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
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