Leichte Holz-Bauten entworfen und gezeichnet von Adolph Guggenberger, Architect

Munich: Max Ravizza, 1869. Hardcover. Fair +. [12] leaves of chromolithographed plates; 38 cm. Light green wrapper printed in black, with publisher's catalog Technische Werke & Zeichnungs-Vorlager, on back wrapper. Wrapper title. Running title: Leichte Holzbauten. A 19th-century owner had it bound with black cloth spine and corners and black paper over boards. Former owner's inscription on front fixed endpaper: "Eigenthum des Tischlermeister Brandt." No date of publication; listed in Bayerische Landeszeitung for 1869. Issued in two parts, with 6 leaves of plates in each; all 12 are included here. Adolph Guggenberger entered the workshop of German sculptor Anselm Sickinger (1807-1873) around 1860 as an architectural draftsman workig on the altars designed by Sickinger. Little else is known about him. The drawings are of small wood structures -- sheds, huts, and gazebos, as well as the larger Tanz-Salon. Not in WorldCat; very scarce. In Fair+ Condition: cover is rubbed with loss at corners; wrapper is lightly soiled; closed tear of 2 cm. from lower edge of front wrapper; old dampstain along lower gutter of all plates; heavily foxed; minor loss at lower corners of plates; otherwise, clean and solid.