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ZEILLER, Martin (author, 1589-1661) and Matthaeus MERIAN, the elder (artist, 1593-1650). Topographia Helvetiae, Rhaetiae, et Valesiae: Das ist Beschreibung unnd eygentliche Abbildung der vornehmsten Stätte und Plätze in der hochlöblichen Eydgnossschafft Graubnden, Wallis und etlicher zugewandten Orthen. Frankfurt-am-Main: Merian heirs, 1654.
2° (327 x 207mm). Additional engraved title dated 1642, 80 engraved plates of maps, plans and views, 70 of which are double-page on guards, several with 2-4 views per sheet, by Matthaeus Merian or Caspar Merian after H. Caspar Nscheler, H.C. Gyger, Joseph Plepp, F.L. Boizot, Josua Zehender and others, woodcut printer's device on title, ornamental initials, head- and tailpieces, with an additional engraved plate by Johannes Meyer of the Kunstkammer at the Wasserkirche in Zurich. (Some light spotting, repairs to blank lower margin, some neat tears repaired on verso, small ink deletion on engraved title.) 17th-century vellum over pasteboard (slight wear at head and foot of spine). Provenance: Johannes, a pastor at Oberburg (17th-century title inscription); Wolfgang Krauel (bookplate).
Second, corrected, edition of Merian's most important topograhical work. First published in 1642 and supplemented by his son Caspar in 1653, the Topographia Helvetiae formed the first part of an extensive general topography of Germany. That Merian chose Switzerland (in 1642 a region still attached to Germany) for the first volume attests to his sentimental attachment to the country where he was born. The present volume is the first to bring together the 1642 work with the 1653 supplement; the text is much corrected. Although Merian suppressed his name entirely in the earlier edition and only refers to him here by the initials M.Z. on the title-page, the author was Martin Zeiller, who drew largely on his Teutsches Reyssbuch for this work. The Topographia Helvetiae was a sound commercial success, encouraging Merian to continue publishing the successive parts of his topography of Germany. The plates in the present copy are in their early state, with many German titles. Brunet V: 1530; Lonchamp 3345; L.H. Wthrich, Das druckgraphische Werk von Matthaeus Merian d.Ae., vol. IV, 1996, no.4.
2° (327 x 207mm). Additional engraved title dated 1642, 80 engraved plates of maps, plans and views, 70 of which are double-page on guards, several with 2-4 views per sheet, by Matthaeus Merian or Caspar Merian after H. Caspar Nscheler, H.C. Gyger, Joseph Plepp, F.L. Boizot, Josua Zehender and others, woodcut printer's device on title, ornamental initials, head- and tailpieces, with an additional engraved plate by Johannes Meyer of the Kunstkammer at the Wasserkirche in Zurich. (Some light spotting, repairs to blank lower margin, some neat tears repaired on verso, small ink deletion on engraved title.) 17th-century vellum over pasteboard (slight wear at head and foot of spine). Provenance: Johannes, a pastor at Oberburg (17th-century title inscription); Wolfgang Krauel (bookplate).
Second, corrected, edition of Merian's most important topograhical work. First published in 1642 and supplemented by his son Caspar in 1653, the Topographia Helvetiae formed the first part of an extensive general topography of Germany. That Merian chose Switzerland (in 1642 a region still attached to Germany) for the first volume attests to his sentimental attachment to the country where he was born. The present volume is the first to bring together the 1642 work with the 1653 supplement; the text is much corrected. Although Merian suppressed his name entirely in the earlier edition and only refers to him here by the initials M.Z. on the title-page, the author was Martin Zeiller, who drew largely on his Teutsches Reyssbuch for this work. The Topographia Helvetiae was a sound commercial success, encouraging Merian to continue publishing the successive parts of his topography of Germany. The plates in the present copy are in their early state, with many German titles. Brunet V: 1530; Lonchamp 3345; L.H. Wthrich, Das druckgraphische Werk von Matthaeus Merian d.Ae., vol. IV, 1996, no.4.