Descrizione

With 30 and 29 steel-engraved plates. 303 pp.; 245 pp. 8vo. Contemp. half cloth, orig. typographic front wrapper laid down (somewhat soiled and spotted). Leipzig, Georg Wigand, (1840). "Das malerische und romantische Deutschland", VII. First edition of this literary description of Styria and Tyrol, by the Austrian poet Johann Gabriel Seidl (1804-1875). Included in the text are poems and folk songs. The plates, often after L. Mayer, engraved by A. H. Payne, show Ambras, Innsbruck, Sigmundskron, castle Tyrol, the monastery of Admont, Riegersburg, castle Herberstein, and more. - Plate "Das Gesäuse" lacking in part II, foxed as usual, library stamp on titles. - Goedeke IX, 102, 9 ("Verdienstlich sind seine auf der Grenze zwischen Dichtung und Forschung sich bewegenden Schriften wie "Wanderungen."), and IX, 121, 66; not in Rümann. AUSTRIA ;