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Black Forest Photo Album with An Unusual Relief Depicting Putti, One Blowing Bubbles, the Other, Playing Cymbals

Black Forest Photo Album with An Unusual Relief Depicting Putti, One Blowing Bubbles, the Other, Playing Cymbals

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Seller: White Fox Rare Books and Antiques
Title
Black Forest Photo Album with An Unusual Relief Depicting Putti, One Blowing Bubbles, the Other, Playing Cymbals
Seller
White Fox Rare Books and Antiques (United States)
Condition
Very Good Plus
Description
Berner Oberland, Switzerland. Very Good Plus. N.d., circa 1890. The front board is quite elaborate, with a beveled perimeter of a richly painted wood grain. Within is an oblong piece of walnut in the quintessential Black Forest, or in actuality, Swiss Brienzerware, style. By this is meant the delicate foliate relief vignettes which rest on lightly pitted wood. But this frames a light walnut oblong oval with the putti relief that bespeaks more eighteenth century rococo than standard Brienzerware, except that the stones and vegetation at the base are consistent with Brienzerware. The rear board of the album has a pyrographic bouquet such as was practiced by the Swiss carvers later in the nineteenth century. The album, now empty of photos, has 25 thick card leaves, and it is kept closed with a brass clasp. The spine is of brown morocco.
A Journey from London to the Isle of Wight [Two Volumes in One]

A Journey from London to the Isle of Wight [Two Volumes in One] by Pennant, Thomas

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Seller: Walkabout Books
Title
A Journey from London to the Isle of Wight [Two Volumes in One]
Author
Pennant, Thomas
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Walkabout Books (United States)
Condition
Very good
Description
London: Printed at the Oriental Press by Wilson & Co. for Edward Harding, 1801. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Quarto, pp 205, 217, with two folding hand-colored maps and 47 engraved plates, in a contemporary full calf binding with gilt rules, spine in six compartments, with red and black spine labels and gilt embellisment. Some rubbing to boards, especially at joints and head of spine, a little worming to boards. Binding sound, scattered foxing, but generally clean. The maps, which are in very nice condition, show Pennant's route from London to Dover and then from Dover to the Isle of Wight. "Thomas Pennant was a Welsh antiquarian and naturalist whose works were very popular in the eighteenth century. His reputation was built on his important natural history survey British Zoology, first printed in 1766, and his accounts of two tours of Scotland undertaken in 1769 and 1772. Pennant made further tours in Wales and in England between 1773 and 1787 and his popularity among amateur naturalists and antiquarians resulted in the development of a comprehensive network of correspondents, many of whom supplied him with additional information that he added to subsequent editions of his works. Aside from his 1783 book describing the antiquities on the road between Chester and London and his immensely popular account of the antiquities of London, none of Pennant’s English tours were published during his lifetime. This account of his 1787 tour to the Isle of Wight was edited by his son David and published in 1801. Rather than heading directly to the island, Pennant’s tour took in much of the south-east coast of England, travelling first from London to Dover before traversing the coasts of Kent and Sussex" (Royal Collection Trust).

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