Berg Johan August (3 results)

Tvär folio. (4) s. + 96 litografier i tontryck och tillhörande textblad. Förlagets halvfranska band med ryggförgyllning, främre pärm med vapensköld i guld. Ryggen och pärmarna nötta, pärmarna mer. Svag i bindningen, en plansch helt loss och nött i yttre marginal, några delvis loss. Texten som vanligt bruntonad, hälften av planscherna med svag fuktrand upptill i marginalen.

First and only edition of a beautiful work on Swedish traditional dress. The work contains 12 large chromolithographed plates depicting different scenes from Swedish life, including a wedding, herring fishing, a baptism, a horse market, and the interior of a hut in Lapland. Each plate is accompanied by a long description in Swedish, German, and English, which explains the scene in detail. The plates and text together offer a fascinating insight into life in the Swedish countryside in the middle of the 19th century.The text was written by Johan August Berg (dates unknown). The plates were lithographed by Arnz & Co. in Düsseldorf, after designs by Bengt Nordenberg (1822-1902), Killian Zoll (1818-1860), Josef Fredrik Höckert (1826-1866), Josef Wilhelm Wallander (1821-1888), and Gunnar Brynolf Wennerberg (1823-1894), who were all well-known Swedish painters specialising in genre scenes. Nordenberg, Zoll, and Wennerberg were members of the Düsseldorf school of painting, which was part of the German romantic movement.With the original wrappers bound in. The edges and corners of the boards are somewhat scuffed, the boards are somewhat scratched and rubbed. Internally very clean.l Colas 299, Hiler & Hiler, p. 81; Lipperheide 1051; WorldCat 8775734, 186279646, 556861540, 1106927973, 252036331, 1106996454. Contemporary quarter gold-tooled brown leather, gold- and blind-tooled brown cloth sides, with the title lettered in gold on the front, blue sprinkled edges. With 12 full-page chromolithographed plates, separated by tissue paper guards. Pages: [1], [1 blank], [1], [1 blank], [24] pp.

Condition: 0. Engelmann II, 914.- Ansichtenwerk mit den schönen Ansichten aus dem Lithographischen Institut Baerentzen. Die Tafeln zeigen u.a. Malmö, Helsingborg, Stockholm, Uppsala, Göteborg, Falun und Lappland.- Ohne die zweite Ansicht von Göteborg.- Die Textblätter meist gebräunt und stockfleckig, die Tafeln meist nur leicht stockfleckig, 5 Tafeln lose.- Scandinavia.- Berg, J.A. Sverige. Framstäldt i Taflor. Gothenburg, Bonniers, (1856). 99 unnumbered leaves. With 95 (instead of 96) lithographs. Quarto. Contemporary half leather binding with gold-stamped cover and title (scratched and bumped). Engelmann II, 914.- Views with beautiful scenes from the Baerentzen Lithographic Institute. The plates show Malmö, Helsingborg, Stockholm, Uppsala, Gothenburg, Falun, Lapland, and other locations.- Without the second view of Gothenburg.- The text pages mostly browned and foxed, the plates mostly only slightly foxed, 5 plates loose. Sprache: Deutsch Gewicht in Gramm: 500.