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[10] engraved views.Beautifully produced suite of views engraved after the Dutch artist Jan Simon Voddiggel (1820-1862) showing Wiesbaden in Hesse, one of the oldest spa towns in Europe, celebrated as the "Nice of the North". It includes several views of the old Kurhaus ("spa house") built by Christian Zais in 1810 in the neoclassical style, the nearby cold-water balneological institution of Nerothal, the summer palace of the Dukes of Nassau, the "Kochbrunnen" (hot spring fountain) in downtown Wiesbaden, the sepulchral chapel of Duchess Elizabeth of Nassau, the Ducal hunting palace, and the ruins of Sonnenberg castle. Issued with various titles and, as here, without a title-page.With an inscription in ink on the first free endpaper to Christine Emma Sanford, née Percival (1828-1900), "from her affectionate mother" (dated 1 May 1859). Christine Percival had married Edward Ayshford Sanford of Combe Florey, Somerset, in 1853. Cloth rubbed, spine rebacked, new endpapers. One plate with an unobtrusive mark, another with faint stains at corners from adhesive on the back. Otherwise in good condition. Seller Inventory # ABC_45580
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Title: [Album von Wiesbaden].Wiesbaden, C.W. ...
Binding: Hardcover
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