Abbildung der vorzüglichen Eisenwaaren.
[Munich, Lithographische Kunstanstalt 1822-28-31-37.
Oblong folio (251/6 x 386/94 mm.)COMPLETE SET OF THE FIRST PATTERN BOOKS ISSUED BY THE ROYAL BAVARIAN IRONWORKS WITH NEARLY NINE HUNDRED MEASURED FIGURES OF THREE HUNDRED EIGHTY-FIVE CAST IRON PRODUCTS. Title, [2]p., XXII plates and title, [7], [1 blank]p., XXXVII plates and title, [2]p., XXIV plates and title, [2]p., XXIII plates. Together, FOUR LITHOGRAPHIC TITLE-PAGES AND ONE HUNDRED AND SIX LITHOGRAPHIC PLATES INCLUDING ONE FOLDING.
Uniform contemporary gilt-ruled patterned red paper over boards (spines and corners slightly chipped, smudge on one front cover), gilt spine titles, all edges gilt (I-III) and yellow edges (IV).
COMPLETE SET OF THE FIRST PATTERN BOOKS ISSUED BY THE ROYAL BAVARIAN IRONWORKS WITH NEARLY NINE HUNDRED MEASURED FIGURES OF THREE HUNDRED EIGHTY-FIVE CAST IRON PRODUCTS. The catalogs were printed at the first lithography school (established in 1804 by Senefelder and Mitterer, inventors of the medium).
The range of merchandise is impressive, door hinges to massive machinery and waffle irons to public monuments. The vast majority of these products are realized commissions for schools, palaces, cemeteries, churches, a madhouse, etc. Every commissioned piece is listed with its purpose, location and the patron’s name — fountains at Hohenschwangau Castle designed by Domenico Quaglio, candelabra for Munich’s National Theater, the steam engine powering the Bergen blast furnace, windows for the Turn und Taxis’ Regensburg residence, and so on.
The illustrations were designed and executed by draftsmen, architects, builders, a painter and a scientific instrument maker. I have located two other complete sets (both in Munich). In original condition (two dozen plates with scattered light foxing, two plates and one letterpress leaf slightly browned).
¶Engelmann, Bibliotheca mechanico-technologica 1; see Winkler’s Die Frühzeit der deutschen Lithographie passim; no volume in the Berlin Katalog, UCBA or RIBA Early Printed Books.
Price: $13,500.00