HAMPEL, C. & C.E. MENZEL. 
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E.C. Menzel, Breslau. No year [1822]. Folio (37 x 22cm). Paginated 1-30, [17]-20 (possibly misprinted?) & 37-90, 95-98, 91-94, 99-158 [complete]. 49 plates, four folding with first facing titlepage. Several titlepages facing pages 17, 30, 48, 64, 78, 90, 102, 114, 126, 138, 146, divides the text into sections of subjects. Bound in a nice, modern black half morocco binding. Spine gilt and with five raised bands. Older inked name to front free endpaper. Pages occaisionally showing small ink or burnmarks. Only light foxing. Some pages with folds in text. First fold-out plate (Constantinople) with a repair (tear still showing on motif) and a few inkstains. Pages 1-4 with coarser repairs. In the case of pages 3/4 a vertical closed tear is still affecting text as one has tried to avoid covering lettering with paper. Smaller repair to page 5/6.
The most complete copy known of this remarkable costume plate book. It contains 49 large plates of Greek and Turkish dress, as well as views of towns and buildings, together with descriptions of these regions and their history. The work is exceptionally rare, as we have only been able to trace three other copies in sales records, and two in libraries, all of which containing less plates than the present copy. The most complete copy that has appeared on the market until now is the one sold at Sotheby's in May 2009, which had 45 plates. However, our copy contains an extra folding plate and four more full page plates. Because this work is so rare, very little about it is known. As each part has its own title page, the work was likely published in 12 fascicles, possibly one per month. There may have been multiple states or editions of the work, as the first plate in our copy, a folding plate of Constantinople (present day Istanbul), includes a caption and the name of the artist, unlike the plate in the Sotheby's copy. The illustrator/ engraver and publisher are equally mysterious, as no other works from either of them are known. The British Museum general catalogue places the work under the name of Johann Carl Gottlieb Hampel (dates unknown), a professor of mathematics and architecture, who authored three works on mathematics and art conservation in Breslau in the 1830's and 40's. However, there is no sign in any of these publications that he was also an illustrator/ engraver. A number of the costume plates are copies from Le Hay and Ferriol's 'Recueil de cent estampes représentant différentes nations du Levant' (1714), such as Der Gross Sultan; Ein Albaner; Der Janitscharen Aga; Ein Türkischer Marine Soldat, and others, but with different backgrounds. The double page plate from Constantinople is most likely copied after a plate with the same name by Friedrich Bernhard Werner (1690-1778), which was published in ca. 1750, but with different people in the foregound. With an early 20th-century ownership annotation ("Amalia Biehler") on the front flyleaf. The spine shows traces of use, with small tears in the cloth at the head and foot. The work is somewhat browned and foxed throughout, the lower margins of most leaves is slightly soiled, repaired tears in the first few leaves and plates, mostly in the margins, a water stain in the lower inner corner of the last two thirds of the work, quire 20 and 21 in part 7 have been bound in the wrong order.
16500,- EUR
inkl. 19% USt./incl. 19% VAT
Sachgebiete: Arabistik, Reisen/Reiseliteratur
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