[LINASSI]. - Lot 138

[LINASSI]. Ferdinand I. und Maria Anna Carolina im Küstenlande im September 1844. Trieste, Papsch & C. Buchdruckerei des Oesterreichischen Lloyd, 1845. Small folio (38.6 x 28.9 cm), (3) ff, IV-57 pp, 15 plates with serpents. Publisher's green bradel percaline, muted spine underlined by gilt fillets, gilt title to upper board (light rubbing to binding, foxing to text only, one plate loose, quires slightly unruly, plates 8, 12 and 13 missing). Superbly illustrated 19th-century German-Italian holiday book. Witness to the last fires of the Austrian monarchy in Italy on the eve of the Risorgimento, the book relates the official visit of Emperor Ferdinand I, and his wife Maria Anna Carolina, to Trieste in September 1844, when he was crowned King of Lombardy-Venetia in 1838. Only 3 copies at WorldCat. Unusually, this book (and perhaps only some of the copies) opens with a title in black and an ornate, autographed title in black, silver, gold and copper, printed on porcelain paper (banned in 1865, these papers or cards are very rare). First title framed and dry-stamped; the second illustrated with dry-stamped portraits in medallions: the Emperor and his wife in the center (gilded), Ernesto Il Ferreo, Giuseppe II, Leopoldo I, Leopoldo II, Carlo VI and Francesco I (white on silver background), coat of arms (silvered), the Quaternion of the Holy Roman Empire and a panoramic view of Trieste lithographed by Linassi & Cie (copper-plated). Text in printed German with lithographed frame, followed by 15 plates lithographed in black by Linassi after Dell'Acqua, Rieger, Tischbein, Pupilli, Moro, Margutti.... They are titled in Italian and German and framed. Apart from a lithographed black line plan (Plan de l'excursion de Leurs Altesses Royales de Trieste à Capodistria avec 10 navires...), the views describe the stages and festivities of the visit, with beautiful scenes watercolored and then gouached for detail, and highly enhanced with gum arabic, giving the images a gleaming appearance. Ex dono, or dedication, handwritten in the 19th century, probably in Hungarian or German on one of the endpapers (handwriting difficult to read). Boards: 1 - L'arrivo delle LL. MM. a Opchina. - Ankunft II.MM. in Opschin. 2 - Ingresso delle Loro Maesta' li 5 Settembre 1844 - Einzug Ihrer Majestäten den 5 September 1844. 3 - Il Teatro grande illuminato - Das erleuchtete Grosse Theater. 4 - Le Loro Maesta' nel Tergesteo il 6 Settembre - Ihre Majestäten im Tergesteum am 6. September. 5 - Gita delle LL.MM. con dieci Piroscafi a Capodistria - Lustfahrt II.MM. mit zehn Dampfschiffen nach Capodistria. 6 - Ritorno delle LL.MM. dalla Gita con dieci Piroscafi a Capodistria - Rükkehr II.MM. von der Lustfahrt mit zen Dampfschiffen nach Capodistria. 7 - Piano per la Gita delle LL.MM. II.RR. da Trieste a Capodistria con 10 Piroscafi del Lloyd austriace li 7 Settembre 1844. - Plan zur Lustfahrt II. KK. Majestäten von Triest nach Capodistria mit 10 Dampfbooten des Oesterreichischen Lloyd den 7 September 1844. 9 - Piazza della Borsa illuminata - Beleuchtung des Börseplazes. 10 - Illuminazione del Porto vista dalla Città - Beleuchtung des Haffens gesehen vom Ufer. 11 - Illuminazione del Porto vista dal Mare - Beleuchtung des Haffens gesehen zur See. 14 - Ritorno delle LL.MM. dall' Istria il di 13 Settembre - Rückkehr II.MM. aus Istrien am 13. September. 15 - Palazzo Governiale colla Guardia civica. - Das guberniale Gebäude mit der städtischen Wache. 16 - La Festa popolare 14 Settembre - Das Volksfest 14. September. 17 - Il Teatro Mauroner la sera del 15 Settembre - Das Theater Mauroner am Abend des 15. September. 18 - Congedo delle LL.MM. al Confine del Territorio - Abschied II.MM. an der Grenze des Stadtyebiethes.