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SCHREIBER, Aloys Wilhelm (1761-1841)

Lot 229
13.07.2023 10:00UTC +00:00
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Lot 229 | SCHREIBER, Aloys Wilhelm (1761-1841)
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SCHREIBER, Aloys Wilhelm (1761-1841)

Trachten, Volksfeste und charakteristische Beschäftigungen im Großherzogtum Baden in XII malerischen Darstellungen. Freiburg: Herder, 1852.

Fine copy of Aloys Schreiber’s descriptive and illustrative account of the costumes, folk festivals and typical occupations of the Grand Duchy of Baden. The German author was a writer of many talents and his interests varied from aesthetics, court history, theatre and travel. These wide-ranging and culturally encompassing concerns are exemplified in this present publication, which sought to promote and explore the identity of the German dutchy. The Grand Dutchy of Baden was at the time a newly established independent state of the German Empire (1806) following the dissolution of the Holy Roman Empire that same year. Schreiber was appointed to the position of court historian to Karlsruhe in 1813 and through his illustrated books, such as Trachten, helped to establish not only the cultural validity but equally the political legitimacy of the region. Bobins IV, 1262; Colas 2688; Hiler 787; Lipperheide 743 now 'verloren'.



Oblong folio, (302 x 391mm). 12 aquatint plates, coloured by a contemporary hand and mounted on grey thick paper, each with a leaf of descriptive letterpress (annotation to title page in pencil, light spotting throughout, tiny marginal repaired hole on pl. 4, tiny hole that affects leaves 4 to 8 and leaves 12 and 16 due to production error, small repaired tear to leaf 18). Contemporary red half pebble-grain cloth with green mottled boards lettered in gilt on front board (very minor rubbing to extremities).





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Place of origin:Western Europe, Germany, Europe
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