Ansicht von Worms Vue de Worms

by Lorenz Janscha

$950 · Offered by Donald A. Heald Rare Books · No longer available

A fine view of the city of Worms, a river-port on the Rhine, twelve miles north-north-west of Mannheim. Accompanying the plate is a descriptive leaf of letterpress text, in French and German, with a contemporary manuscript English translation beneath: `After passing the little island of Neusatz, the Rhine arrives at Worms, situated in the Lower Palatinate beyond the Rhine. The surrounding countryside produces much corn & rape seed also the excellent wine known as

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