SPL Hand Coloured Rare Book Collection Featuring Norman R Bobins

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PETTER, Franz.
Das Königreich Dalmatien.

Published
Vienna: H.F. Mueller, 1841.
References
Thieme-Becker I, pp.338-346; Bobins 1059.
Plates
20
Binding/Size
M=4to
Value
0-5000
Published
Vienna: H.F. Mueller, 1841.
Ref
5289

Four parts in one volume, 4to, pp. 42, 36, 35, 44. Twenty chromolithographed plates, four maps, divided as below, a contents list, and a subscribers list at the end of the work. In contemporary full red morocco with gilt borders, spine flat, and gilt. All edges are gilt. The geography, history, economics, religion, and language of the four regions of Dalmatia. Plates after original paintings by Jacob and Rudolf Alt, Austrian painters, father, and son, living in Vienna. The Four Sections comprise Part I: Kreis Zara, 42pp., review of the area 1pp., map, and five chromolithographed plates from original drawings by Jacob and Rudolph Alt; Part II: Kreis Spalatro, 36pp. text, report, topographical map, and five chromo-lithographed plates; Part III: Kreis Ragusa, 35pp. text, map, five chromolithographed plates; Part IV: Kreis Gattaro, 37pp., map and five chromo-lithographed plates. Some foxing throughout. Coloured plates in order: [Map] Konigreich Dalmatien. Der Zaraer Kreis. 1. Zara. (Dalmatien.) 2. Sebenico. (Dalmatien.) 3. Fall der Kerka bei Roneislap. (Dalmatien.) 4. Zara Kreis (Dalmatien - 4 figs.) 5. Morlaken, versammelt, am Brunnen bei Dernit. [Map] Konigreich Dalmatien. Der Spalatoer Kreis. 6. Spalato. (Dalmatien.) 7. Salona mit der Festung Klissa. 8. Lesina. (Dalmatien, Spalatoer-Kreis.) 9. Spalatoer Kreis (Land Dalmatien - 4 figs.) 10. Verheurathete Morlaken von Sign. [Map] Konigreich Dalmatien. Der Ragusaer Kreis. 11. Ragusa von St. Giacomo. 12. Das Omblathal bei Ragusa. 13. Stadt Curzola. (Kreis Spalato, Dalmatien.) 14. Ragusa Kreis. (Dalmatien - 4 figs.) 15. Kreis Ragusa. (Dalmatien.) [Map] Konigreich Dalmatien. Der Cattaroer Kreis. 16. Cattaro. (Dalmatien.) 17. Aussicht bey der Kirche St. Matteo in Dobrota gegen Mulla im Canal von Cattaro. 18. Aussicht gegen Perzagno und Dobrota im Canal von Cattaro. 19. Dalmatien, Kreis Cattaro - 3 figs. 20. Kreis Cattaro. Bewohner von Xuppa, Rifano und Dobrota.