Author: LUDWIG SALVATOR.
Title: Columbretes.
Description: Prag, Heinr. Mercy, 1895.Folio. Original blue cloth, with illustration on cover in silver. With folding frontispiece, 2 folding coloured maps, mounted on linen, and many illustrations and plates. (14),177 pp.First edition. - It was of great importance to Archduke Ludwig Salvator of Austria (1847 - 1915) of the House of Habsburg, to stimulate public interest for landscapes, which he thought were unjustifiably little known rarely traveled. His attention focused less on classical cultural centers, but on small, undiscovered regions. The Columbretes Islands are a group of small uninhabited islets of volcanic origin, in the Mediterranean Sea, 49 kilometres off Orpesa, Spain. - Fine.
Keywords: Islands Spain
Title: Columbretes.
Description: Prag, Heinr. Mercy, 1895.Folio. Original blue cloth, with illustration on cover in silver. With folding frontispiece, 2 folding coloured maps, mounted on linen, and many illustrations and plates. (14),177 pp.First edition. - It was of great importance to Archduke Ludwig Salvator of Austria (1847 - 1915) of the House of Habsburg, to stimulate public interest for landscapes, which he thought were unjustifiably little known rarely traveled. His attention focused less on classical cultural centers, but on small, undiscovered regions. The Columbretes Islands are a group of small uninhabited islets of volcanic origin, in the Mediterranean Sea, 49 kilometres off Orpesa, Spain. - Fine.
Keywords: Islands Spain
Price: EUR 632.50 = appr. US$ 687.43 Seller: Gert Jan Bestebreurtje Rare Books (NVvA/ILAB)
- Book number: 36815
- Book number: 36815