Hyrtl, Jakob (sold)
Jakob Hyrtl (November 23, 1799 - October 17, 1868), sometimes as Jakub Hyrtl, Jacob Hyrtl, Jacob A. F. Hyrtl, or Jakab Hyrtl, was a Viennese engraver, illustrator, and printmaker. He produced a wide range of works, including maps and book plates, and was especially adept at renderings of buildings and cityscapes. However, Hyrtl is best known for giving to his brother, the anatomist Joseph Hyrtl (1810 - 1894), a skull which Jakob claimed to be the skull of composer Wolfgang Amadus Mozart (1756 - 1791). Joseph examined the skull and then donated it to the City of Salzburg, where Mozart was born and resided for much of his life; it is now held by the Mozarteum (incidentally, much of the rest of Joseph Hyrtl's extensive collection of skulls was donated to the Mütter Museum in Philadelphia).
First Edition, First State of a later censured Map of Hungary.
Magyar Ország, Horvát, Tót, Dalmát, és Erdély Országok, a tenger mellék és a végőri videkék kőzonséges pśták és útak főldabrosza... / Vollstaendige General Posten- und Strassen-Karte des Königreichs Ungran, der Königreiche Croatien, Slavonien, Dalmatien, des Grossfürstenth. Siebenbürgen, des Küstenlandes und der Militair-Grenze...
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This is Blaschnék Sámuel and Schedius Lajos' lavish, very large-format bilingual (Hungarian-German) c. 1836 folding map of the Kingdom of Hungary, here in its first-edition first-state. It depicts the kingdom in the wake of the Napoleonic Wars, when it was in the midst of a reform movement, and represents the most detailed and up-to-date mapping of the kingdom in the first half of the 19th century. (more details)