Search Results: Titles starting with R from Antiquariat Banzhaf

5 illustrated text-volumes and 3 volumes with original pen- and ink drawings by the traveller (= complete). Text-volumes illustrated with 281 original photographs (each ca 75 x 74 mm to 125 x 82 mm) of places and people and 276 photographs with reproductions of pen- and ink sketches (each ca 126 x 72 mm) pasted onto to 183 plates. 443 unnumb. leaves, including a photo portrait of the author, and 3 maps. Atlas-volumes illustrated with 287 original pen- and ink sketches by the author (each ca 135 x 80 mm), mounted to 36 cardboard leaves with views of towns, landscapes and local residents. Compehensive and detailed description of a world tour by Friedrich Zahn-Geigy (1848-1929), a 23-year-old descendant of a Swiss banker's family from Basle. The journey, not only undertaken for educational purposes solely, but as is related in the text also for business reasons, visiting long-standing business partners and looking out for new fields of business especially in the US and South East Asia, first led them to… Read More

4 vols. (= all published). With 14 (5 folding) engraved plates. Publisher's interim boards, printed paper labels to spines. All edges uncut. 4to (284 x 226 mm). Spine-ends slightly damaged, covers lightly soiled. Volume I spine restored with new label. Graesse V, 8 ; Brunet IV, 155 ; Lowndes 1165 ; Martin, Privately printed books 216-219. First and only edition. One of a special edition of 26 large paper copies with a few additional plates and cancelled sheets which gives it a kind of unique feature, not indicated by Martin in his extensive description of the book. He only mentions a copy described in the catalogue of the holdings of the Stowe library with a supposedly unique set of the cancelled sheets, because according to that description all others had been destroyed ! (1) Vol. I with one additional title with a variant text and publishing date 1813. A second plate to the Codex Hibernici after page 174. (2) Vol. II with five additional cancelled sheets printed on rectos only and one additional… Read More