Search Results: Authors starting with H from Antiquariat Banzhaf

(3) pages letterpress text, 6 lithographed plates. Publisher's wrappers with printed blue title shield to front cover. Uncut. Folio (480 x 320 mm). Slightly soiled. Engel. Bibl. Faustiana 1822 ; cf. Sammlung Kippenberg 1903 ("Verlag von Otto Humburg & Co." no date (obviously a remainder copy without the original wrappers; the Otto Humburg publishing house started its business around 1865) ; Rümann. 19. Jahrhundert 635. First edition. One of the rarest and at the same time most unusual suites to illustrate Goethe's Faust, and also one of the largest in size. Only a few copies with the original wrappers can be found; this is important because the suite was issued without a title page, so the title and imprint can only be found here. "(Er) wurde bekannt durch seine Illustrationen in Arabeskenform zu Goethes Faust und ebensolche zu Ossians Gedichten (Berlin, 1835)" (Thieme/Becker XVI, p 47). - "Carl Harnisch, born in Altenburg, Germany on January 1, 1800, worked as an artist and created designs for… Read More

Aquarelle. (Reise um die Erde nach der Natur aufgenommen in Egypten, Indien, China, Japan, Manilla, Amerika etc. (and) Neue Folge (and) Aus Europa). 3 series in two portfolios (= all published). Berlin, Raimund Mitscher (c. 1880). 68 chromolithographed views, each c. 360 x 270 mm by R. Steinbock and W. Loeillot after watercolours by Eduard Hildebrandt, printed on textured paper and mounted on card, printed title labels on verso. Loosely contained in two brown and red publisher's richly gilt stamped cloth portfolios, both front covers with blind embossed colour illustrations. Folio (575 x 470 mm). Edges worn and rubbed, corners mildly bumped.
Thieme-Becker XVII, 74f. First extremely uncommon complete edition, of this superb visual record of the Prussian court painter's travels, consisting of images of the Far East, including views in Bangkok, Rangoon, Hong Kong, Macao, Peking, and Singapore, views in North and South America, Near East and Europe. Our copy is divided into three sequences with separate… Read More