Topographia Und Eigentliche Beschreibung Der Vornembsten State Schlosser Auch Anderer Platze

by Matthaeus Merian Martin Zeiller Engraver

$5,900 · Offered by Donald A. Heald Rare Books

First edition

Half calf over marbled paper boards, spine gilt, red morocco lettering piece. Patterned endpapers. First edition of Merian's most comprehensive topography This meticulously crafted volume, published in Frankfurt in 1654, stands as the most extensive and lavishly illustrated compendium of its kind. Intended as the final volume to the industrious project Topographia Germaniae, this work represents the pinnacle of the remarkable series for which the Swiss-born

• Binding: Leather

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