Topographia Helvetiae, Rhaetiae, et Valesiae : das ist Beschreibung unnd eygentliche Abbildung der vornehmsten Sta tte und Pla tze in der hochlöblichen Eydgenossenschafft, Graubündten, Wallis und etlicher zugewandten Orthen.

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Cloth, blindstamped cover device, leather spine-label, folio, 31 cm, 90, [10], 10 p., ca. 80 leaves of (chiefly folding) plates. The text was written by Martin Zeiller and the views were engraved by Matthaeus Merian and others. Between 1642 and 1688 Merian and his sons issued some thirty volumes on the topography of Switzerland. From an article by Walter Woodburn Hyde in The Geographical Review: "Toward the middle of the seventeenth century the topography of Switzerland was accurately studied by Matthäus Merian and Martin Zeiller. The chief merit of their published work was the seventy-five copperplate views of Swiss towns and castles." Name on front free endpaper, plates neatly annotated in pencil with their number and subject, index annotated in red pencil including some additional entries, boards slightly darkened at edges, otherwise Very Good in a somewhat browned and duststained dustwrapper, which is slightly chipped. N° de ref. del artículo ABE-52621

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