GERNING, J.J. [Johann Isaac] Von, Baron. 
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A Picturesque Tour along the Rhine, from Mentz to Cologne: With Illustrations of the Scenes of Remarkable Events, and of Popular Traditions...Embellished with Twenty-Four Highly Finished and Coloured Engravings, from the Drawings of M. Schuetz; and Accompanied by a Map. Translated from the German by John Black. London: R. Ackermann,1820.
FIRST EDITION. Folio (33.5 x 28 cm). Title, verso blank; Dedication, 1 leaf; List of Subscribers, pages (v) to viii; Preface by the Translator, pages (ix) to xii; Preface of the Author, pages (xiii) and xiv; Contents, 1 leaf, verso with List of Plates; Text, pp. 1-178. Period style half red morocco over marbled boards, spine with raised bands and intricate gilt tooling, all edges gilt. 24 aquatinted plates D. Havell and T. Sutherland after C.G. Schutz with original hand-colouring, engraved folding map with colour highlights at rear entitled “Map of the Course of the Rhine from Mentz to Cologne; And of the Course of the Maine and the Lahn”. Minor scattered spotting, slight offsetting to map, generally an excellent copy. One of Ackermann's major colour plate books and apparently the first in his "Picturesque Tours" series, others of which explore the Seine, the Ganges, and the Thames. The book describes a trip down the Rhine on that part of the river generally considered most romantic and charming, “from Mentz to Cologne, and of the Bathing-Places of Wiesbaden and Embs”. The account contains not only topographical descriptions, but considerable historical information and details of popular traditions, the book being written "with a view chiefly to the information of travellers of cultivated minds who may be induced to visit this interesting portion of Germany (Preface of the Author)". The original German edition was published in Wiesbaden in 1819 as Die Rheingegenden von Mainz bis Cölln, without illustrations. The third issue, with the plates numbered in top right corner.
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