Lot no. 6
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RAOUL-ROCHETTE (Désiré), GOLBERY (Marie Philippe de), VILLENEUVE (Louis Jules Frédéric), ENGELMANN (Godefroy) and SAZERAC (Hilaire Léon). Letters on Switzerland accompanied by views drawn from nature & lithographed by Villeneuve. Paris, Engelmann, 1823-1832. 5 parts in 5 volumes in-folio, contemporary half-red basane. (1) f., 83 pp - (1) f. 45 pp. - (1) f. 61 pp. - (1) f., 89 pp. - (1) f. 39 pp. Minor tears and rubbing to bindings, scattered foxing, browning.
First edition illustrated with 33 title vignettes or in the text and 112 off-text lithographed plates on Chine appliqué.
First part: Bernese Oberland (1823): 24 plates.
Second part: Ancien Evêché de Bâle (1824): 16 plates.
Third part: Lake of the Four Cantons (1826): 24 plates.
Fourth part: Lake Geneva, Chamouny [Chamonix] and the Valais (1827): 24 plates.
Fifth part: Simplon route: 24 plates.
See original version (French)
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