HESS, Heinrich

HESS, Heinrich. Die Fresco-Gemälde der Königlichen Allerheiligen Hofkapelle zu München

 

Munich: 1840

 

 

£ 3,000

 

 

Atlas Folio (89 x 61 cm); 46 pp.; with 43 b/w full page plates. Bookplate of the Weston Library on top paste down. In German; Gothic script. Foxing throughout. Contemporary half calf with green silk; gilt tooling on covers; gilt ornamental decoration and lettering on spine; spine in seven compartments divided by six raised bands. Wear and some soiling to the binding; bumped corners; wear and slight damage to head and foot of spine. An extremely rare and overall very good copy.