ZURICH - Bluntschli, Hans. Memorabilia Tigurina,... Lot 120

ZURICH - Bluntschli, Hans. Memorabilia Tigurina, Oder Merckwürdigkeiten, Der Statt und Landschafft Zürich, In Alphabetischer Ordnung etc.. With gest. Title by Joh. Caspar Morff and 22 gest. Views by Johann Melchior Füssli. Zurich, Johann Rudolf Simmler, 1704. 12°. [3] boards, 408 pp. leather binding of the time with blind-stamped spine (somewhat more rubbed, spine minimally worm-marked, corners bumped, block loosened). Barth 18214 - Lonchamp 351 - Haller I, 763 - First edition. - Very scarce first edition of the early description of the state and history of Zurich by Hans Heinrich Bluntschli (1656-1722), bookmaker, artillery captain and spokesman for the smiths' guild in Zurich. The work continued in further editions and adaptations until 1870, the 2nd edition of 1711 contains other illustrations, only the 3rd edition, ed. by Johann Balthasar Bullinger, again contains the illustrations of the 1st as well as the illustrations of the 2nd edition. Deals, among other things, with evening prayer, alms, bathing trips, ban, battel (begging), sieges, Bern war, blood court, book printers, book censorship, covenants, wood order, merchant's house, cold, Kilbe, murder night, coins, plague, preacher-monks, Reformation, regiment, shipwreck, battles, snow, schools, dearth, thunderstorms, women, wine, wine bills and much more. - Flying endpaper missing from front. Some foxing and browning throughout, otherwise in good condition.