Zurlauben, Beat Fidel Baron de. Tableaux topographiques,... Lot 117

[Zurlauben, Beat Fidel Baron de]. Tableaux topographiques, pittoresques, physiques, historiques, moraux, politiques, littéraires de la Suisse. 5 in 4 vols. (2 text- u. 2 plate-volumes as well as 1 "Table analytique" v. E. A. Quétant ). With 1 gest. Frontispiece by Née after Moreau le jeune, 2 gest. Titles and 2 gest. 2 gest. frontispieces, 2 gest. head vignettes (1 with 2 portraits of Zurlauben and De la Borde), 6 double-page maps, 2 double-page plans a. 241 (1 double-page) copper plates. Paris, L'Imprimerie de Clousier, 1780-1786. Large folio. Marbled calf volumes of the time with two gilt spine labels each, rich spine gilt, gilt cover and inner edge bands, as well as gilt edges on three sides (capitals somewhat bumped and partly with small chipping resp. missing parts in the cover, spine with small worm traces, weak rubbing at frets, joints and edges). Barth 17338 - Cohen/R.1075 - Feller/Bonjour 505 ff - Haller I, 235 - Lonchamp 3362 - Wäber 38 - Brunet V, 1546 - Lewine p. 581 - Second edition of the largest and most famous Swiss work of views of the 18th century. Contains mostly views of the most important places, mountains, lakes, maps (1 general map, Basel, Bernese Oberland, Neuchatel a. Schaffhausen) a. 2 plans (Basel and "plan perspectif" with mountain panorama of Central Switzerland), historical events, pictures of coins a. seals. - With "Table analytique" bound in 4th volume. - Minimally browned in the margins, occasional light foxing. Overall clean copy in splendid bindings of the time.