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BERG, Albert (1825-1884), editor

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Lot 131 | BERG, Albert (1825-1884), editor
BERG, Albert (1825-1884), editor

Die Preussische Expedition nach Ost-Asian Ansichten aus Japan, China und Siam. Berlin: Königlichen, 1864.

A very rare, monumental pictorial narrative of the Prussian and German Customs Union diplomatic expedition to Asia and the Pacific from 1859 to 1862, with the plates on india paper, and the chromolithographs on card, all mounted, in the original publisher's boards. The explanations of the plates are in German, French and English. The edition of 500 was produced by W. Korn's Photolithographic Institute in Berlin, using a process developed just a few years earlier by the Irish-Australian inventor John Walter Osborne. They reproduce watercolours, oil paintings and pen and ink drawings, primarily by Albert Berg. The expedition, led by Friedrich Albrecht zu Eulenburg, resulted in treaties signed with the Japanese (Treaty of Amity, Commerce and Navigation, 24 January 1861), the Chinese Qing empire (2 September 1861) and Siam (17 February 1862). The voyage's personnel included merchants, geographers and botanists, the landscape painter Albert Berg, the draftsman Wilhelm Heine and the photographers Carl Bismarck and August Sachtler. It is very rare to find the complete plates in the original publisher's cloth and in such fine condition. The plates illustrate views and scenes of Yeddo, Yokahama, Ikegami, Nagasaki, Tientsin, Peking, Hong Kong, Macao and Ayudhya and Bangkok. Bobins IV, 1417; Cordier Sinica 2521.



2 volumes, large oblong folio (508 x 628mm). 10 parts with 6 plates each, four in photolithography on india paper, and two in chromolithography mounted on card, comprising a total of 40 monochrome and 20 chromolithographic plates, with three pages of text per part (title and 3 plates a little cockled, very occasional marginal dust soiling). Original publisher's black blind-stamped cloth, covers with decorative blind border, title lettered in gilt on upper covers (head and tail of spines expertly restored).





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Place of origin:Western Europe, Germany, Asia, Europe
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