"DAHLBERG (DAHLBERGH), ERIK.Livre Rare Book
Suecia Antiqua et Hodierna. Tomus I-III (all). - [THE LARGEST SCANDINAVIAN TOPOGRAPHICAL WORK - IN A MAGNIFICENT BINDING BY HEDBERG]
166128323Stockholm, (1661-1728). Queer-folio (365 x 480 mm). Magnificent full polished calf binding from ca 1900 by the Swedish master bookbinder Gustav Hedberg in Stockholm. Sumptuously gilt spine with six raised bands and gilt title-label. Boards splendidly gilt with broad ornamental borders and a darker polished calf centre. Edges of boards gilt and inner gilt dentelles. All edges gilt. A prime example of a master binding by Hedberg. Complete with all 354 engraved plates (including the three title-pages). At the end is withbound the ""Index Figurarum Ænearum 1-3"", 13 pp., which is not mentioned in Lindberg, Swedish Books. The plates are printed on fine, heavy paper (”skrivepapir”) and are of varying sizes (folio, double folio, and composite). Here, they have been either mounted on or ”enlarged” in the margins, with contemporary fine heavy paper of the same sort as the plates, in order to make them of uniform size to fit the binding. An unusually well preserved copy with only minor brownspotting, with clear prints on excellent paper. A few plates a little closely shaven (eg. the three title-pages).
Herman H. J. Lynge & Son · Copenhagen, Danemark100 000,00 DKK≈ 13 430,00 €
