Skip to main content
Want more images or videos?
Request additional images or videos from the seller
1 of 17

Picturesque Tour of the Seine, from Paris to the Sea / Ackermann, First Edition

About the Item

One of the great 19th-century English color plate books illustrating the scenery along the Seine. Sauvan, Jean Baptiste Balthazar. Picturesque Tour of the Seine, from Paris to the Sea; with Particulars Historical and Descriptive. London: R. Ackermann, 1821. First Edition. 4to, 13 1/2 x 11 (343 x 280 mm), pp. x, 177, title vignette and 24 hand colored aquatints, map. Later three-quarter yellow levant morocco with fillets, spine decorated in gilt with 5 raised bands and black title label; marbled boards and endpapers, a.e.g.. Spine and boards in very good condition, binding tight and square, text and plates with very occasional spotting. [Abbey, Travel 90; Tooley 445; Bobins, Exotic and the Beautiful II: 548] Condition: Near fine. This is a first printing of one of the great nineteenth-century English color plate books illustrating the scenery along the Seine from Paris to Le Havre. Luminous impressions of the plates, beautifully hand-colored. Engraved by Thomas Sutherland (1785 – 1825) and Daniel Havell (1785 – 1826) from sketches and drawings by Augustus Pugin (1812 – 1852) and John Gendall (1790 – 1865), the illustrations also include a vignette on the title page representing the Château de Rosny (home of the Duchess of Berry), a large vividly-colored vignette on the last page, and a colored map. Views of Le Havre, Rouen, Elbeuf, Honfleur, Vernon, Mantes, Saint-Germain, Saint-Cloud, Paris, etc. The album is dedicated to King Louis XVIII. The color prints are a veritable tableaux presenting the architecture, landscapes, and inhabitants of this region before the industrial revolution. The work was issued by Ackermann between January and June 1821 in 6 separate parts, each containing 4 plates. Seven hundred and fifty copies were printed on regular paper, at 14s per part, as the present copy, and fifty large-paper copies were also issued. The wrappers of the original issue read "The River Seine is well known to form a distinguished feature in the Tour of France, as it winds through and adorns the important province of Normandy, and is the great commercial Channel of the Metropolis of that Kingdom. This River reflects, in its earlier stream, the most striking views of metropolitan grandeur; and, as it proceeds, Nature has been most lavish in beautiful pictures on its banks, and presents, in its course, a succession of objects, whose landscape enrichments are connected with antiquarian circumstances peculiarly interesting to the English Traveller."
  • Dimensions:
    Height: 13.5 in (34.29 cm)Width: 11 in (27.94 cm)Depth: 1 in (2.54 cm)
  • Materials and Techniques:
  • Place of Origin:
  • Period:
  • Date of Manufacture:
    1821
  • Condition:
    Wear consistent with age and use.
  • Seller Location:
    Middletown, NY
  • Reference Number:
    Seller: BH5781stDibs: LU8340234014522

More From This Seller

View All
The FIRST Canter Edition of AESCHYLUS
Located in Middletown, NY
Aeschylus. Edited by Willem Canter. Aeschyli Tragoediae VII. In quibus praeter infinita menda sublata, carminum omnium ratio hactenus ignorata, nunc primum proditur; opera Gulielmi C...
Category

Antique 16th Century European Books

Materials

Gold Leaf

Malerische Ansichten / Picturesque Views (of first railway lines in Slovenia)
Located in Middletown, NY
FIRST EDITION Sandmann, František Xaver (1805-1856) Malerische Ansichten / Picturesque Views (of first railway lines in Slovenia); To commemorate the opening of the railway line from...
Category

Antique Mid-19th Century Austrian Books

Materials

Paper

The Rock, by T. S. Eliot – FIRST EDITION
Located in Middletown, NY
Eliot, T. S. The Rock; A Pageant Play Written for Performance on Behalf of the Forty-Five Churches Fund of the Diocese of London London: Faber and Faber, 1934. FIRST EDITION, Thir...
Category

Early 20th Century English Books

Materials

Paper

The Beautiful and Damned by F. Scott Fitzgerald – FIRST EDITION, First printing
Located in Middletown, NY
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1922. First Edition, First Printing. 8vo, 7 1/2 x 5 1/4 inches (190 x 132 mm); pp. x + 449 + 2, one unopened at the front of the book; 2-page adve...
Category

Early 20th Century American Books

Materials

Gold Leaf

The Adventures of Pinocchio, FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, illustrated by A. Mussino
Located in Middletown, NY
The Adventures of Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi [pseud. of Carlo Lorenzini]; translated by Carol della Chiesa and illustrated by Attilio Mussino New York: Macmillan Company, 1929. F...
Category

Mid-20th Century American Books

Materials

Paper

The Berlin Stories by Christopher Isherwood - FIRST COMBINED EDITION
Located in Middletown, NY
This American edition of Isherwood's two novels [The Last of Mr. Norris and Goodbye Berlin] set in Weimar-era Berlin, were originally published by the Hogarth Press...
Category

Mid-20th Century Books

Materials

Paper

You May Also Like

The Seven Seas by Rudyard Kipling First Edition
By Rudyard Kipling
Located in Dallas, TX
Presenting an extremely rare first edition hardback copy of The Seven Seas by Rudyard Kipling from 1897. This rare book is in fair to good condition for ...
Category

Antique Late 19th Century American Art Nouveau Books

Materials

Paper

Sienese Painting, From Its Origins to the Fifteenth Century, First Edition Book
By Bruce Cole
Located in valatie, NY
Sienes Painting, From Its Origins to the Fifteenth Century by Bruce Cole. New York: Harper and Row, Publishers, 1980. Stated first edition hardcover with dust jacket. 243 pp. The history of painting in Siena from its beginnings of the 13th century to the 15th century. The Sienese style was an artistic language of power, inventiveness and beauty. It featured a highly decorative use of color, the construction of complex space and a particular emotional expression. Artist's include Simone Martini...
Category

20th Century American Books

Materials

Paper

Pisanello, Painter to the Renaissance Court, First Edition
By Luke Syson, Dillian Gordon
Located in valatie, NY
Pisanello, Painter to the Renaissance Court by Luke Syson and Dillian Gordon. London: National Gallery Company, 2001. First edition hardcover with dust jacket. 264 pp. A book on the works of Pisanello by London's National Gallery to accompany the exhibition. Pisanello (1395-1455) was one of the most distinguished painters of the early Italian Renaissance. He is known for his amazing large murals, elegant portraits, small easel...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary English Books

Materials

Paper

Fabergé, Court Jeweler to the Tsars, First Edition
By Geza von Habsburg-Lothringen, Alexander von Solodkoff
Located in valatie, NY
Fabergé, Court Jeweler to the Tsars by G. von Habsburg-Lothringen and A. von Solodkoff. New York: Tabard Press, 1979. First edition hardcover with dust jacket. 170 pp. A book on the works of Carl Fabergé. For more than 35 years, Peter Carl Fabergé (1846-1920) was a purveyor of exquisite creations in jewels and precious metals to European royalty, most notably Russia and England, and to the wealthy of the world. He was a designer of unsurpassed ingenuity and delicacy. He turned out a profusion of jeweled flowers in rock-crystal pots, enameled cigarette cases, desk sets in multicolored gold, silver and platinum, along with miniature gold sedan chairs and coronation coaches...
Category

20th Century American Books

Materials

Paper

American Paintings from the Manoogian Collection, First Edition
Located in valatie, NY
American paintings from the Manoogian Collection by the National Gallery of Art. Washington: Natl. Gallery of Art, 1989. First edition softcover. 203 pages. Published in conjunction ...
Category

20th Century American Books

Materials

Paper

American Paintings from the Manoogian Collection, First Edition
Located in valatie, NY
American paintings from the Manoogian Collection by the National Gallery of Art. Washington: Natl. Gallery of Art, 1989. First edition. 203 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Publish...
Category

20th Century American Books

Materials

Paper

Recently Viewed

View All