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Condizione: Good. Folio. 26 x 34.5 cm. Original half morocco, worn. Duplicate of the Library of Congress, formerly in the War Dept, Library. and the Treasury Dept. About 71 engravings, lithographs and chromolithographs of architectural subjects, Only a few have library stamps This architectural publication's subtitle is translated, "A collection of country houses, villas, rural buildings, garden houses, garden ornaments, railings, bay windows, balconies, flowers, windows, wells, fountains, outbuildings, boundary walls, candelabra, grave monuments and other small buildings, for the beautification of building structures which are used, and in Berlin, Potsdam, and other places." The architects represented include Ferdinand von Arnim, Ludwig Persius, Friedrich August Stüler, Carl Schwatlo, Martin Gropius, and Ludwig Ferdinand Hesse.OCLC Number / Unique Identifier: 1481890.

Amsterdam, Scheltema & Holkema's Boekhandel, 1897, small in-4°, 23,5 cm, 42 leaves , page numbering 1-42 (printed in the japanese style), bound in publisher's full vellum, gilt title on front cover , top edge gilt. Outer margin of the upper cover with some very slight soiling, further a very fine copy with a flawless interior. Printed in 250 numbered copies. This is copy 131 on japan paper. Very nice Dutch Art Nouveau book production. Illustrated with 19 engravings by the great Dutch orientalist painter and engraver Marius Bauer ( 1867 - 1932 ). The endpapers and the 48 ornamental engravings were designed by Gerrit Willem Dijsselhof ( 1866 - 1924 ) . The French text is a translation made by the French speaking Swiss symbolist artist William Ritter ( 1867 - 1955 ).