Rare Book, "christoph Columbus Logbuch", Carl Maria Seyppel, Düsseldorf Circa 1884.

"Christoph Columbus Logbuch", or Christopher Columbus Logbook, published by Felix Bagel, Düsseldorf, circa 1884.
Rare and very unusual, this exceptional work is by Carl (or Karl) Maria Seyppel, (1847 - 1913), from Düsseldorf.
Painter, designer and writer, he produced very curious, satirical and innovative works in the 1880s/1890s, going so far as to "disguise" the external appearance of these productions.
Thus, this pseudo Christopher Columbus logbook seems to have come straight out of a chest that has been lying at the bottom of the ocean since 1492...: covers accumulating sand, real algae and shells, pages falsely greened with micro algae and irregularly cut, even seeming to have been torn on the margins...
This work was thought and designed to resemble a vestige of underwater excavations.
The story of Columbus's wanderings, in German, is of course satirical, bordering on the absurd, and peppered with eccentric engravings.
First edition, circa 1884, 39 pages, in good condition.
Height x width = 30.7 cm x 21 cm; thickness = 2.8 cm; weight = 670 grams
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