Baerentzen, Emmanuel.

first editions, 2 works bound in one, oblong folio (288 x 390mm.), 2 pictorial lithographed titles, and 104 (of 107) fine mostly tinted lithographed views by Baerentzen after various artists, each with accompanying descriptive letterpress in Danish (some parts with additional text in German), list of plates bound before title, publisher's red morocco, elaborately gilt, upper cover lettered in gilt, lower cover with crowned device, spine in compartments with raised bands gilt, gilt edges, watered silk endpapers, lacking plates 5, 6 and 46, plate list loose, inscription crudely excised from preliminary blank, upper hinge detached, joints splitting, rubbed

Queen Alexandra (1844-1925), engraved armorial bookplate (as Princess of Wales), [Brian North Lee, British Royal Bookplates, 14]

from the library of queen alexandra (1844-1925), who was born in Copenhagen on 1 December 1844, the eldest daughter of the future King Christian IX of Denmark, and Louise, third daughter of Landgrave Wilhelm of Hesse-Cassel and Princess Charlotte of Denmark. In 1863 her father ascended the throne, only months she married at St. George's Chapel, Windsor, Albert Edward, Prince of Wales, who became King Edward VII in 1901.

The fine plates depict views in Denmark proper (25 of 27), Jutland (19 of 20), Slesvig (15), Holsteen (24), Lauenborg (6), the Faroes (1), Greenland (3), Iceland (5), and the Virgin Islands (formerly the Danish West Indies) (6).