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RUDOLPH ACKERMANN

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Picturesque Tour Along the Rhine... BOUND WITH: Picturesque Tour of the Seine

ACKERMANN'S TWO MASTERFUL PICTURESQUE TOURS, ALONG THE RHINE AND THE SEINE, WITH 48 SUPERB HAND-COLORED FOLIO AQUATINTS, 1820-21

(ACKERMANN, Rudolph) GERNING, Baron Johann Isaac von. Picturesque Tour Along the Rhine… BOUND WITH: Picturesque Tour of the Seine. London, 1820, 1821.

First edition, first issue, of Ackermann's wonderful picturesque tour along the Rhine, beautifully illustrated with 24 hand-colored folio aquatints by Daniel Havell and Thomas Sutherland after paintings by Christian Georg Schutz (and large folding map), bound together with his equally beautiful illustrated tour along the Seine, with hand-colored vignette title page and 24 beautiful folio aquatint views of the river and surrounding countryside after drawings by Augustus Charles Pugin and John Gendall, for a total of 48 very finely and vividly hand-colored aquatint folio views. A lovely copy. $19,500.

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Picturesque Tour of the English Lakes

"PERFECTION OF ROMANTIC LANDSCAPE"

(ACKERMANN, Rudolph, publisher) FIELDING, Theodore Henry Adolphus and WALTON, James. A Picturesque Tour of the English Lakes. London, 1821.

First edition of this wonderful visual record of the Lake District, one of only 850 copies, splendidly illustrated with aquatint vignette title page and 48 hand-colored aquatints of remarkable English scenery, including the Yewdale Crags, Windermere, Deepdale and Kirkstone. Beautifully bound in fine full contemporary morocco-gilt. $6200.

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