Malovich (2 results)

Oblong folio (425 x 298 mm). Lithographed title-page executed in gilt, 6 tinted lithographed plates (one with printed tissue overlay), and one folding plan. Contemporary full calf with giltstamped covers and cover title. Cloth pastedowns. Rare edition with luxury title-page: a fine railway album showing the final section of the Habsburg Southern State Railway from Trieste to Nabresina, completed in 1857. This elaborate work was the product of a collaboration between three great professionals of the age: the photographer Emilio Maza (1824-90), the lithographer Albert Rieger (1834-1905), and the editor and lithographer Giuseppe Malovich (1823-74). The album displays the five viaducts between Barcola and Nabresina conjoint with a view of the Roman limestone quarry of Nabresina which provided the building material for these structures, including a plan of the railway network from Trieste to Nabresina. First published in 1857, the album saw two subsequent editions in Milan, 1855-77, and in Piacenza, 1864. The present (undated) edition must be one of these two, the latter distinguished from the former merely by the title-page. Indeed, the title-page of the present issue is even more lavishly adorned than that of the first edition, including allegorical figures, two miniatures, and an elaborate floral border. - A good example of the technico-artistic publishing so popular in the period, presenting major government infrastructure in an artistic way through appealing views, enriched with plans and technical elevations. - All editions are rare, and only a single library copy is traceable online (at the Biblioteca civica Attilio Hortis in Trieste). - Binding professionally restored. Paper faintly waterstained at right margin. The images very well preserved. - Nebehay/Wagner 708. De Farolfi, Catalogo delle stampe triestine dal XVII al XIX secolo 624. Not in OCLC.

Oblong folio. pp. engraved title printed in grey and gold; 5 tinted lithographic plates of scenes along the routes of the railway plus one of the Roman quarry where the local Nabresine stone was sourced, all titled in the plate, one with printed tissue overlay showing new construction on the bridge at Lucavetz. Fine in original blindstamped morocco. Rare. No copies are listed in the standard on-line resources. The railway, the last part of the Vienna to Triest line, was completed in 1857 and this lovely book of views would appear to have been published at about that time. The short route [around 11 miles], seems to mostly consist of long and spectacular viaducts, presumably constructed from the local Nabresina limestone quarried from the Cava Romana.