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ZURLAUBEN (BEAT FIDEL ANTOINE) AND JEAN-BENJAMIN DE LABORDE Tableaux topographiques, pittoresques, physiques, historiques, moraux, politiques, littéraires, de la Suisse, 2 vol. bound in 4 (including "Table analytique" by E. A. Quétant), Paris, Clousier [-Lamy], 1780-1786 image 1
ZURLAUBEN (BEAT FIDEL ANTOINE) AND JEAN-BENJAMIN DE LABORDE Tableaux topographiques, pittoresques, physiques, historiques, moraux, politiques, littéraires, de la Suisse, 2 vol. bound in 4 (including "Table analytique" by E. A. Quétant), Paris, Clousier [-Lamy], 1780-1786 image 2
ZURLAUBEN (BEAT FIDEL ANTOINE) AND JEAN-BENJAMIN DE LABORDE Tableaux topographiques, pittoresques, physiques, historiques, moraux, politiques, littéraires, de la Suisse, 2 vol. bound in 4 (including "Table analytique" by E. A. Quétant), Paris, Clousier [-Lamy], 1780-1786 image 3
ZURLAUBEN (BEAT FIDEL ANTOINE) AND JEAN-BENJAMIN DE LABORDE Tableaux topographiques, pittoresques, physiques, historiques, moraux, politiques, littéraires, de la Suisse, 2 vol. bound in 4 (including "Table analytique" by E. A. Quétant), Paris, Clousier [-Lamy], 1780-1786 image 4
ZURLAUBEN (BEAT FIDEL ANTOINE) AND JEAN-BENJAMIN DE LABORDE Tableaux topographiques, pittoresques, physiques, historiques, moraux, politiques, littéraires, de la Suisse, 2 vol. bound in 4 (including "Table analytique" by E. A. Quétant), Paris, Clousier [-Lamy], 1780-1786 image 5
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ZURLAUBEN (BEAT FIDEL ANTOINE) AND JEAN-BENJAMIN DE LABORDE
Tableaux topographiques, pittoresques...de la Suisse, Paris, Clousier [-Lamy], 1780-1786

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ZURLAUBEN (BEAT FIDEL ANTOINE) AND JEAN-BENJAMIN DE LABORDE

Tableaux topographiques, pittoresques, physiques, historiques, moraux, politiques, littéraires, de la Suisse, 2 vol. bound in 4 (including "Table analytique" by E. A. Quétant), half-titles in 2 volumes, engraved frontispiece after J. Moreau le Jeune, engraved additional pictorial title, engraved vignette of authors, 7 double-page engraved maps, 244 engraved plate sheets (of which 112 with 2 views, one folding, 10 with more 4 to 8 images), tissue guards, some toning to text in the third volume but generally very clean, contemporary polished calf, spines in 7 compartments within raised bands with red and green gilt morocco lettering labels, some abrasions to sides of fourth volume [cf. Cohen De Ricci 1075-1076; cf. Longchamp 3362], folio (500 x 328mm.), Paris, Clousier [-Lamy], 1780-1786

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Fine set, in an attractive binding, of one of the most celebrated and lavishly illustrated eighteenth-century works devoted to Switzerland, with views of the mountains, glaciers, major cities and sites.

Provenance: Henry Goulburn (1784-1856), bookplate. Entering the Houses of Parliament in 1808, by 1810 he was an under-secretary at the Home Office, and in 1812 under-secretary for war and colonies, and Chancellor of the Exchequer in 1828; by descent to the present owner.

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