Die schönsten Ornamente und merkwürdigsten Gemälde aus Pompeji, Herculanum und Stabiae nebst einigen Grundrissen und Ansichten nach den an Ort und Stelle gemachten Originalzeichnungen =
Subtitle: Les plus beaux ornemens et les tableaux les plus remarquables de Pompei, d'Herculanum et de Stabiae avec quelques plans et vues, d'après les dessins originaux exécutés sur les lieux
By: von Wilhelm Zahn
Contributors: Jahn, Otto, 1813-1869
Publisher: G. Reimer
Published: 1828
Place of publication: Berlin
Language: ger
Subjects: Ancient Decoration and ornament; Architectural Decoration and ornament; Mural painting and decoration, Greco-Roman; Pictorial works
Other titles: Plus beaux ornemens et les tableaux les plus remarquables de Pompei, d'Herculanum et de Stabiae
Notes: Issued in 3 series of 10 pts. each, with 100 plates in each series.

The plates are signed by various lithographers, including Asmus, Bantelmann, Boutterwek, Harnisch, Herwig, Storch, and others.

The t.p.'s are printed in colors.

Series 3 includes "Erläuterungen" by O. Jahn.

Some plates are individually dated.

GV, 1700-1910, Bd. 159, p. 94-95.

CHMRB copy is incomplete, with plates wanting in each of the three series; approximately 122 leaves of plates are present in total. Some text leaves are also wanting.

Title leaves for V Heft (1828), VII Heft (1829), and VIII Heft (1829) of the first series, and V-X Hefte of the 2nd series (1844), are laid in at the front of the portfolio.

Plates present in CHMRB copy: (series 1) 17-18, 27, 41-50, 50a, 51, 53, 56, 58-80; (series 2) 1-40; (series 3) 11-50.

An unidentified bookseller's printed description of a partial copy of this work is mounted on front paste-down.

Later portfolio of brown quarter-cloth with dark blue paste-paper boards; printed label on front cover; ties (wanting).