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NEBEL, Carl. Voyage Pittoresque et Archéologique dans la partie la plus intéressante du Mexique . Paris: Paul Renouard for Moemach and Gau, 1836.

Auction 13.06.2002
13.06.2002
Schätzpreis
18.000 £ - 25.000 £
ca. 26.701 $ - 37.085 $
Zuschlagspreis:
47.800 £
ca. 70.907 $
Auktionsarchiv: Los-Nr. 105

NEBEL, Carl. Voyage Pittoresque et Archéologique dans la partie la plus intéressante du Mexique . Paris: Paul Renouard for Moemach and Gau, 1836.

Auction 13.06.2002
13.06.2002
Schätzpreis
18.000 £ - 25.000 £
ca. 26.701 $ - 37.085 $
Zuschlagspreis:
47.800 £
ca. 70.907 $
Beschreibung:

NEBEL, Carl. Voyage Pittoresque et Archéologique dans la partie la plus intéressante du Mexique . Paris: Paul Renouard for Moemach and Gau, 1836. Large 2° (548 x 384mm). Half-title, 1p. errata, much of the text on thin paper. 50 lithographic plates after Nebel, comprising 1 plan on india paper mounted, 29 views, 10 finely hand-coloured, 10 finely hand-coloured costume plates, 10 uncoloured plates from measured drawings of antiquities). (Title, some text and about 18 plates spotted.) Contemporary red morocco gilt by J. Wright, covers with decorative border of fillets and roll tools, surrounding an inner panel with elaborate cornerpieces of stylised foliage, with a large central lozenge made up of massed small tools including flower-heads, foliage and flourishes, spine in seven compartments with raised bands, lettered in the second, the others with elaborate overall repeat pattern of flower and foliage tools, gilt turn-ins, marbled endpapers, gilt edge (spine faded). A RARE AND IMPORTANT WORK ON MEXICO, ITS ANTIQUITIES, AND PEOPLE. Only one copy is listed as having sold at auction in the past twenty-five years. As Humboldt writes (in French) in his preface to this work: 'M.Nebel, an architect, spent five years in the country or dominion of the Aztecs and Toltecs and has made a great advance: he has measured the monuments with scrupulous accuracy, he has noted new buildings... he has recorded bas-reliefs... and he has the happy ability of being able to capture the essence of the tropical vegetation in his drawings'. He goes on to note that the work was published in Paris, under the personal supervision of the author, and includes images of the ancient and modern architecture, views of the principal modern cities and sensitive portraits of the modern peoples of Mexico. Nebel went on to record the Mexican/American war in some detail, and is perhaps now best known for his fine illustrations to George Wilkins Kendall's The War between the United States and Mexico (New York, 1851). Brunet IV, 28; Colas II, 2184; Graesse IV, 653; Lipperheide Md 14; Palau 188866; Sabin 52177: ['A beautiful volume, now scarce'].

Auktionsarchiv: Los-Nr. 105
Auktion:
Datum:
13.06.2002
Auktionshaus:
Christie's
London, King Street
Beschreibung:

NEBEL, Carl. Voyage Pittoresque et Archéologique dans la partie la plus intéressante du Mexique . Paris: Paul Renouard for Moemach and Gau, 1836. Large 2° (548 x 384mm). Half-title, 1p. errata, much of the text on thin paper. 50 lithographic plates after Nebel, comprising 1 plan on india paper mounted, 29 views, 10 finely hand-coloured, 10 finely hand-coloured costume plates, 10 uncoloured plates from measured drawings of antiquities). (Title, some text and about 18 plates spotted.) Contemporary red morocco gilt by J. Wright, covers with decorative border of fillets and roll tools, surrounding an inner panel with elaborate cornerpieces of stylised foliage, with a large central lozenge made up of massed small tools including flower-heads, foliage and flourishes, spine in seven compartments with raised bands, lettered in the second, the others with elaborate overall repeat pattern of flower and foliage tools, gilt turn-ins, marbled endpapers, gilt edge (spine faded). A RARE AND IMPORTANT WORK ON MEXICO, ITS ANTIQUITIES, AND PEOPLE. Only one copy is listed as having sold at auction in the past twenty-five years. As Humboldt writes (in French) in his preface to this work: 'M.Nebel, an architect, spent five years in the country or dominion of the Aztecs and Toltecs and has made a great advance: he has measured the monuments with scrupulous accuracy, he has noted new buildings... he has recorded bas-reliefs... and he has the happy ability of being able to capture the essence of the tropical vegetation in his drawings'. He goes on to note that the work was published in Paris, under the personal supervision of the author, and includes images of the ancient and modern architecture, views of the principal modern cities and sensitive portraits of the modern peoples of Mexico. Nebel went on to record the Mexican/American war in some detail, and is perhaps now best known for his fine illustrations to George Wilkins Kendall's The War between the United States and Mexico (New York, 1851). Brunet IV, 28; Colas II, 2184; Graesse IV, 653; Lipperheide Md 14; Palau 188866; Sabin 52177: ['A beautiful volume, now scarce'].

Auktionsarchiv: Los-Nr. 105
Auktion:
Datum:
13.06.2002
Auktionshaus:
Christie's
London, King Street
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