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Natural history of Switzerland with ca. 90 extra illustrations and manuscript letter View picture(s) 1 ANDREAE, Johann Gerhard R. Briefe aus der Schweiz nach Hannover geschreiben, in dem Jare 1763. Zweiter Abdruk. Zurich & Winterthur, Johann Casper Fussli Sohn, 1776. 4to. Contemporary mottled calf with gold-tooled spine and red edges. With engraved map of Switzerland on the title-page, 10 engravings in the text, and 18 engraved plates (including 3 folding), partly signed by Joh. Rod. Schellenberg, the first being a large folding plate by J. R. Holzhalb after J. C. Vogler of the wooden roofed bridge of Schaffhausen. XXII, 245 [=345], [3] pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Cartography  Switzerland  Topography  Voyages  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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First edition in the desirable large 4to issue of the Complete Works of one of the fathers of modern biology View picture(s) 2 BONNET, Charles. Oeuvres d'histoire naturelle et de philosophie. Collection complette des oeuvres de Charles Bonnet. Neuchatel, Samuel Fauche, 1779-83. 8 vols. 4to. Uniformly bound in full contemporary calf, richly gilt spines with two green morocco title-labels lettered in gold, gilt border along the edges, gilt binding edges and inner dentelles, blue endpapers, g.e. With engraved vignettes on titles, many head- and end-pieces (some by Bradt), one folding and 55 full-page engraved plates, some signed by Billé and R.B... (4), XXXII, (4), 1-114, (8), 115-574, (2); (4), II, 524, (2); (4), IV, VII-XVI, 579, 2; (4), XX, 396; (4), IV, 396; (6), XXIV, 422, 215/6, 425-428; (4), II, VIII, 698; (4), XIV, 509 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 18th Century  Natural History  Philosophy  Switzerland  Zoology  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Classic botanical bibliography, rare 'London' copy View picture(s) 3 HALLER, Albrecht von. Bibliotheca botanica. Qua scripta ad rem herbariam facientia a rerum initiis recensentur. London [and Zürich], Carol. Heydinger, 1771. 2 volumes. 4to. Contemporary half calf, gold-tooled gilt with red morocco title label. XVI, 654; [4], 785, [1 blank] pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 18th Century  Bibliography  Botany  Natural History  Switzerland  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Hand-coloured swiss costumes View picture(s) 4 KOENIG, Franz Niklaus. Neue Sammlung von Schweizertrachten, nach Zeichnungen von F. N. Koenig - Nouvelle collection de costumes suisses. Zürich, Orell, Füssli & Compagnie, 1811. 12mo. Contemporary red half roan. With 50 hand-coloured aquatint costume plates; with tissue guards. 201, [1] pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  Colour Platebooks  Costumes  Switzerland  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Swiss fashion in the early nineteenth century View picture(s) 5 KÖNIG, Franz Niklaus & Gabriel LORY & OTHERS. Nouvelle Collection de Costumes Suisses de XXII Cantons.- Neue Sammlung von Schweizertrachten aus den XXII Cantonen. Zürich, Orell, Füssli und Comp., (ca. 1818). Small 8vo. Contemporary red boards, spine gilt, g.e. With 60 engraved plates of Swiss costumes, all beautifully coloured by hand. 223, (4) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  Colour Platebooks  Costumes  Switzerland  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Simplon Road View picture(s) 6 LORY, J. & J. (= Gabriel Ludwig & Mathias Gabriel) & Frederic SCHOBERL. Picturesque Tour from Geneva to Milan, by way of the Simplon: Illustrated with thirty six coloured views of the most striking scenes and of the principal works belonging to the new road constructed over that mountain, and accompanied with particulars historical and descriptive. London, R. Ackermann, 1820. 4to. Original half black morocco. With engraved frontispiece-map of the Simplon Road, and 36 fine engraved coloured aquatint views, one repeated and two mounted, repeated from another copy, all after designs by J. and J. Lory. (8), 135, (2) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  Italy  Switzerland  Travel & Voyages  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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A famous work on Switzerland grangerized with 67 engravings View picture(s) 7 MERIAN, Matthäus. Topographia Helvetiae Rhaetiae et Valesiae. Das ist, Beschreibung und eigentliche Abbildung der vornembsten Stätte und Plätz, in der hochlöblichen Eydgnoßschafft, Grawbündten, Walliß, und etlicher zugewanten Orten. Frankfurt am Main, Matthäus Merian, 1642. Folio. Contemporary calf, spine ribbed and gilt, with red title label, lettered in gold, red painted edges. Richly engraved allegorical title, depicting with the coats of arms of the different Swiss cantons, the stork as the printer's device of Merian, an the inscription 'Concordiae et pacis autor ichoua', two general maps (of Germany and Switzerland), and 74 copper-engraved views on 55 plates by Merian and others. 72, (8) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Atlases [General]  Cartography  Switzerland  Topography  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Beautifully hand-coloured Swiss costumes View picture(s) 8 REINHARDT, Johann Christian. Collection de costumes Suisses, d'apres les dessins de Reinhart. Chaque planche représente un costume avec une vue prise sure les lieux, À laquelle on joint la description en Anglais et en Français. London, W.T. Gilling, 1822. 4to. Late 19th-century three quarter calf with marbled boards. With 29 (of 30) beautifully hand-coloured plates. 28 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  Colour Platebooks  Costumes  Switzerland  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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An illustrated tour along the Rhine View picture(s) 9 ROBIDA, Albert. Les Veilles Villes du Rhin. A travers la Suisse, l'Alsace, l'Allemagne et la Hollande. Paris, Librairie Dorbon Ainé, (1911). Large 8vo. Contemporary half red morocco, spine ribbed and gilt, top gilt, orig. colour-printed lithographed wrappers preserved. With etched view printed in sepia for frontispiece, and  numerous plates with views and views in text, all after drawings by the author. (4), 309, (3 blank) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Cartography  Germany  Switzerland  Travel & Voyages  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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One of the most esteemed early works on the history and geography of Switzerland View picture(s) 10 SIMMLER, Josias. Respublica Helvetiorum, Hoc est Exacta tum Communis totius  Helvetiae et Singulorum Pagorum, Politiae: tum rerum ab initio foedere gestarum, descriptio. Zürich, In off. Wolphiana, 1608. Contemporary vellum. With 13 fine folding woodcut views of Swiss towns. (8), 207, (4) lvs. Full description >> Related Subjects: Cartography  Europe  Switzerland  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Romantic travels in Germany, Switzerland and Italy View picture(s) 11 STOLBERG, Friedrich Leopold. Reis door Duitschland, Zwitserland, Italie en Sicilie. Uit het Hoogduitsch. Amsterdam, J. Allart, 1798-1801. 4 vols. + atlas-vol. 8vo. Contemporary half calf, spines richly gilt, with red title-labels. With 19 folding engraved views by D. Vrijdag after the German originals, and 6 folding leaves with engraved musical scores. XVI, 469, (1); 479, (1); 586, (2); 386, (2) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Cartography  Europe  Germany  Italy  Switzerland  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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One of the few seventeenth-century literary bibliographies View picture(s) 12 TEISSIER, Antoine. (TEISSERIUS). Catalogus auctorum qui librorum catalogos, indices, bibliothecas, virorum litteratorum elogia, vitas, aut orationes funebres, scriptis consignarunt: Ab Antonio Teisserio, uno è viginti sex Academiae Regiae Nemausensis adornatus. Cum Philippi Labbaei bibliotheca nummaria in duas partes tributa. I. De antiquis numismatibus, Hebraeis, Graecis, & Romanis. II. De monetis, ponderibus & mensuris. Et mantissa antiquariae supellectilis, ex annulis, sigillis, gemmis, lapidibus, statuis, obeliscis, inscriptionibus, ritibus, similibusque, romanae praesertim antiquitatis, monimentis collecta. Geneva, Samuel de Tournes, 1686. Large 8vo. Contemporary blind stamped vellum, title in ink on spine. Title page printed red and black. (8), 559, (1), 27, (3) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Art  Book History  Bookseller's & Auction Catalogues  Classical Antiquity  Libraries & Collections  Numismatics  Ornaments  Switzerland  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The travel adventures of a famous book and art collector View picture(s) 13 WILLIGEN, Adriaan van der. Aanteekeningen op eene reize van Parijs naar Napels, door het Tirolsche, en van daar door Zwitserland en langs de Rhijn, terug naar Holland. Haarlem, A. Loosjes Pz., 1811-1813. 4 parts in 2 vols. Large 8vo. Contemporary half calf, spine gilt with orange title-labels. With large stipple-engraved medallion portrait of the author by Velyn after a painting by W. Hendriks on engraved general title, 3 separate titles, and 13 full-page engraved views and costume-plates by J. P. Visscher Bender after H. Gotta, J. Grandjean, etc., incl. several after his own designs, all versos blank. VIII, 269, (1); IV, 292; VIII, 322; VIII (=6), 405, (3) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Cartography  Dutch  Germany  Italy  Literature  Popular Books  Switzerland  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Heavily illustrated work on Switzerland, with the rare supplement volume View picture(s) 14 ZURLAUBEN, Béat Fidèle A. Baron de and Jean Benjamin LABORDE. Tableaux de la Suisse, ou voyage pittoresque fait dans les treize cantons et états alliés du corps Helvetique. With: QUÉTANT, François Antoine. Table analytique et raisonnée des tableaux de la Suisse. Paris, Clousier, Lamy, 1780-1788. 5 volumes. Large folio. (55 x 35 cm). Uniform contemporary half calf. With engraved title-page, 2 engraved vignettes, 7 engraved maps and plans, 332 engraved views, 6 engraved plates with medals and coins, 10 engraved plates with 63 portraits and 1 engraving in text. Full description >> Related Subjects: 18th Century  Engravings  Geography  Switzerland  Topography  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The Swiss circa 1900 View picture(s) 15 [COSTUMES - SWISS]. Raetische Trachtenbilder. Herausgegeben vom Organisationscomité der Calvenfeier. Zürich, Polygr. Institut, (ca. 1900). Orig. gilt cloth. With 12 handcoloured photographs of Swiss costumes. Full description >> Related Subjects: Costumes  Crafts  Switzerland  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Rare collection of Swiss costumes View picture(s) 16 [COSTUMES - SWITZERLAND] Collection des costumes de la Suisse et de ses pays limitrophes. Zürich, Keller et Fussli, (c. 1810-1830). (105 x 90 mm). Green wrappers with small stamp: "F.S. Fussli successeur de Keller & Fussli a Zurich" in light blue slipcase, gilt edges. Title within coloured flower garland and 24 charming aquatint illustrations of Swiss costumes, all very beautifully coloured by hand. 25 loose lvs. Full description >> Related Subjects: Costumes  Switzerland  Watercolours  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Eight magnificent and very rare suites of eighteenth-century, uniformly coloured costumes plates: the Ottoman Empire - Germany (Nürnberg, Strassbourg) - Switserland (Zürich) - World (incl. American Indians) - French army View picture(s) 17 [COSTUMES - WORLD]. Eight suites with 180 engraved coloured costume plates. Augsburg, Jean André Pfeffel (1), Jeremias Wolff (2-6) & Paris, F. Chereau (7) and Le Rouge (8), ca. 1720-1750. 8 suites. Folio. Contemporary half calf with red morocco title label lettered in gold: "Costumes en Couleurs", red painted edges. Two engraved titles, one engraved dedication leaf, and 180 costume plates, all uniformly coloured by hand and most of them heightened with gold (ca. 1750), many within yellow painted frame. Full description >> Related Subjects: 18th Century  America [Central]  America [South]  Costumes  France  Germany  Militaria  Ottoman Empire  Print Series  Switzerland  Turkey  The price of this book is only available on request, it cannot be ordered online. Please contact us for more information. E-mail a Friend

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Dufour's account on the Sonderbund War View picture(s) 18 [DUFOUR, Guillaume Henri]. Rapport général du commandant en chef des troupes fédérales sur l'armement et la campagne de 1847. Bern, Imprimerie Staempfli & Zurich, Fréd. Schulthess, 1848. 8vo. Contemporary half calf with gilt title on spine, marbled boards. With six folding lithographed maps of which three with handcoloured troup emplacements. (2), 81, (1 blank) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Arms & Armour  Militaria  Switzerland  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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A former priest exposing all uses and abuses of the Roman Catholic Church View picture(s) 19 [GAVIN, Antoine]. Reyze door Vrankryk, Italien, Duytsland, Switserland, &c., Behelsende, een nette verklaring en beschryving van de regte toestand aller Roomse kerken, kloosters, konventen, en ordens van geestelijken, van allerley zoort… Hier is bygevoegt een kort verhaal van den oorspronk en natuur van het Roomse Jubel-jaar. Uyt 't Engelsch vertaalt. The Hague, Meyndert Uytwerf and Engelbregt Boucquet, 1700. 4to. Contemporary half calf, gold-tooled spine with red title-label. With engraved allegorical frontispiece, and 8 full-page engraved plates by Hillebrand van der Aa. [8], 456, [26] pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Cartography  Europe  France  Germany  Italy  Switzerland  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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A picturesque journey through Switzerland View picture(s) 20 [REICHARD, Heinrich August O.] Malerische Reise durch einen großen Theil der Schweiz vor und nach der Revolution. Jena, H.W.Ch. Seidler, 1805. 8vo. Contemporary half cloth. With engraved frontispiece, engraved title-page, 54 plates (of which 4 hand-coloured, and 1 folding) and 2 folding leaves with musical score. XVI, 414, [2] pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  Colour Platebooks  Costumes  Switzerland  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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