Lot 184
  • 184

Kälin, Josef Meinrad; Suter, Jakob; Lusser, Karl Franz

Estimate
4,000 - 6,000 USD
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Description

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Fünfzehn Ansichten der neuen St. Gotthards-Strasse vom St. Gotthard-Hospiz bis Lugano. Zürich : for Heinrich Füssli, 1833



Oblong 8vo (9 3/8 x 12 in.; 238 x 305 mm). 15 hand-colored engraved plates, heightened with gum arabic, numbered in the plates 68-76, 78-79, 82-84, 90; 7 plates lightly browned. Publisher's green printed wrappers, in a gray cloth drop-box; head and foot of spine chipped.

Condition

7 plates lightly browned. Publisher's green printed wrappers, in a gray cloth drop-box; head and foot of spine chipped.
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Catalogue Note

A handsome collection of views in the canton of Ticino. First published in 1830 with 12 views, a second fascicule appeared in 1833 with the remaining 3 and the whole set was republished in the present form.