Topografia Helvetiae Rhaetiae et Valesiae

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Folio (12 x 8 inches). Letterpress title-page with woodcut printer's device. Additional engraved title-page dated 1642, 2 double-page engraved maps of Germany and Switzerland, and 78 fine engraved plates, including 64 double-page and or folding (numerous marginal tears, some with early repairs crossing the image, a few pale stains, some minor worming to the last few gatherings affecting the images and text). Contemporary limp vellum (soiled, stained and joints split at the head and foot of the spine). Provenance: obscured ownership inscription dated 1665 on the title-page; inscribed by Gabriel le Clerc on the front paste-down and the title-page and dated 1685; lengthy inscription dated 1814 on the verso of the third blank. Third edition in German, first published in 1642, and then reissued many times and added to by Merian's son Caspar in 1653. The "Topographia Helvetiae" formed the first part of an extensive general topography of Germany. The author Matthaus Merian was a notable Swiss engraver born 1593 in Basel. He learned copperplate engraving in Zurich, though he studied later in such cities as Strasbourg, Nancy and Paris. He returned to Basel in 1615, moving to Frankfurt 1616. There he worked for Johann Theodor de Bry, the celebrated publisher whose daughter, Maria Magdelana he married in 1617. In 1620 he and his family moved back to Basel, though they returned to Frankfurt in 1623. Maria took over her father's publishing house upon his death. Brunet 1529; Graesse VII 509; Wuthrich IV, 6. N° de ref. del artículo 001466

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