TOPOGRAPHIE - DEUTSCHLAND_x001D_ Lot n° 2

TOPOGRAPHY - GERMANY_x001E_ Heidelberg and surroundings. Album of Heidelberg. With 17 lithographs over (mostly beige) clay plate by Bachelier, Bayot, Bichebois Deroy and others after Chapuy (8), E. Kirchner and Th. Verhas (8, including 1 after Merian), all printed by Lemercier, published by L. Meder, Heidelberg (16), Goupil et Vibert (12) and Jeannin (11), both Paris as well as Anaglyphic Company (7) and Gambart Junin & Co (4), both London, 1844/45. gr.-Fol. private hardcover, cf. Stahl 177 - All with the artists' names, printers' and publishers' addresses, number, French/German title and 11 fols. with the title page. Title and 11 vols. with the date of publication as well as 3 vols. with the inscription "hinterlegt bey dem Grosh. Bad. Ministerium des Innern" below the illustrations. On strong chamois-colored wove paper. Sheet sizes: each approx. 35.6 x 48 cm. 6 sheets trimmed at lower margin with (mostly only partial) loss of the writing. Prints mainly in the margins (mostly only slightly or faintly) stained. This album with the 14 landscape and 3 portrait formats shows views of Heidelberg and the castle (11 in total), of the Schwetzingen castle garden (4), of Mannheim and Neckarsteinach. [ms.]