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ZURLAUBEN, Beat Fidel Antoine, Baron von Thurn und Gestelenburg, and Jean-Benjamin de LABORDE. Tableaux topographiques, pittoresques, physiques, historiques, moraux, politiques, littéraires de La Suisse. Paris: Clousier and Lamy, 1780-1788.
2 volumes in 4, 2° (505 x 335mm). Engraved frontispiece to vol.I, half-title with engraved head-piece on verso, 10 pages of subscribers, list of plates, half-title to vol.II, with last 3 leaves of errata and approbation, engraved title to vol.III, with Tables des Titres, printed title to vol.IV, with Table alphabetique and Table analytique by M. Quétant, 337 engraved views on 218 plates by Née, Masqualier, Dequevauviller, de Longueil, Droyer and others after Le Barbier, Châtelet, Bertaux and Pérignon, 8 folding engraved maps, and 10 plates of portraits only. (Many leaves spotted and browned.) Red straight-grained morocco by C. Kalthoeber with his ticket, gilt borders on covers, gilt fillets on spines (slightly rubbed), g.e. Provenance: Gostling family (engraved arms pasted on half-title to vol.II); H. Sotheran & Co. (late 19th-century stamp on endpapers). Sold as usual, not subject to return.
SUBSCRIBER'S COPY with "M. Gostling, à Londres", listed in the subscriber's list. Cohen/de Ricci 1075-1076; Lonchamp 3362. (4)
2 volumes in 4, 2° (505 x 335mm). Engraved frontispiece to vol.I, half-title with engraved head-piece on verso, 10 pages of subscribers, list of plates, half-title to vol.II, with last 3 leaves of errata and approbation, engraved title to vol.III, with Tables des Titres, printed title to vol.IV, with Table alphabetique and Table analytique by M. Quétant, 337 engraved views on 218 plates by Née, Masqualier, Dequevauviller, de Longueil, Droyer and others after Le Barbier, Châtelet, Bertaux and Pérignon, 8 folding engraved maps, and 10 plates of portraits only. (Many leaves spotted and browned.) Red straight-grained morocco by C. Kalthoeber with his ticket, gilt borders on covers, gilt fillets on spines (slightly rubbed), g.e. Provenance: Gostling family (engraved arms pasted on half-title to vol.II); H. Sotheran & Co. (late 19th-century stamp on endpapers). Sold as usual, not subject to return.
SUBSCRIBER'S COPY with "M. Gostling, à Londres", listed in the subscriber's list. Cohen/de Ricci 1075-1076; Lonchamp 3362. (4)