Scheuchzer, Johann Jacob (1672-1733).

Estimate

800 - 1,000 GBP

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Description

Ouresifoiths helveticus, sive itinera alpina tria... Imprimatur Is. Newton. London: Henry Clements, 1708

3 parts in one volume, 4to (226 x 167mm.), [6], 57, [1 (blank)]; [2], 72; [2], 22, [2 (blank)]pp., illustration: engraved portrait of the author after M. Füssli, 3 engraved frontispieces (one folding), 41 engraved plates (one partly coloured by hand), binding: contemporary panelled calf, a few plates very slightly trimmed at fore-edge, upper joint split, binding slightly rubbed

Literature

Nissen ZBI 3656; Lonchamp 2640

Catalogue Note

first edition. Scheuchzer, a fellow of the Royal Society of London, under whose auspices this work was published, made his journeys through his native Switzerland between 1702 and 1704. The complete account of his travels incorporated further travels made between 1709 and 1711 and was published in four quarto volumes in 1723. He describes natural history, geology, botany and hydrology.