Architektonisches Skizzenbuch Heft I [first issue]

Berlin: Ernst & Korn, 1852. [7] leaves; 35 cm. Plates are lithographed by Anst von W. Loeillot, Berlin. Disbound. This is the first issue of the German architecture serial Architektonisches Skizzenbuch. Six issues were published per year, each issue consisting of 6 architectural plates. Captions are in German. Contents: hunting house and porter house by Friedrich Ludwig Persius; a highway house (chromolithograph); garden seating and a garden house by Heinrich Strack; details from the garden house; a gazebo and other small structures; details from the fence around the statue of Friedrich Wilhelm III in the Berlin zoo by Friedrich August Stüler; and one leaf with a list of the plates. In Very Good Condition: some browning along the edges of plates; chipping along lower edge of plate 1; otherwise, clean and bright. Very Good. Item #009654

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