Lot 177
  • 177

Zurlauben, Beat Fidel Antoine, baron de, and Jean Benjamin de Laborde.

Estimate
2,000 - 3,000 GBP
bidding is closed

Description

  • Tableaux topographiques, pittoresques, physiques, historiques, moraux... de la Suisse. Paris: l'Imprimerie de Clousier, 1780
2 volumes only (text and plates to volume 1 only), folio (500 x 330mm.), half title in volume 1, volume 2 with engraved allegorical frontispiece, double-page general map of Switzerland, and 307 views and double-page maps on 217 sheets (the views on sheets numbered 1-217, with 7 maps in sequence but unnumbered), some folding, 2 leaves of errata and 'Approbation/Privilege du roi' leaf at end of volume 1, contemporary red morocco, sides with triple gilt fillet border, spine in compartments and richly tooled in gilt, green morocco lettering pieces, gilt edges, without volumes 2-3 of text and volume 2 of plates, lacking subscribers list, splitting at lower joint of vol.1, head of vol.2 spine slightly worn, bindings a little rubbed, corners bumped

Provenance

H.H. Hayes, eighteenth-century ownership inscription

Literature

Cohen-de Ricci 1075; Longchamp 813; Wäber p.38