SPL Hand Coloured Rare Book Collection Featuring Norman R Bobins

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FORESTIER, Alcide de.
Alpes pittoresques. Description de la Suisse par Lullin de Chateauvieux, Zschokke, Meyer de Konnau etc.

Published
Paris: Delloye, (edit) 1837-38.
References
Longchamp 65; Perret 1714; Brown and Lloyd a253; Bobins 1034; Hiler p. 322; not in Colas; Ernts Andres 841; Longchamp, Bibliographie generale des ouvrages suisses, 65.
Plates
22 + 2
Binding/Size
M=4to
Value
0-5000
Published
Paris: Delloye, (edit) 1837-38.
Ref
5395

2 volumes, 4to, lvi + 208pp., 261pp., 21 maps, 66 plates steel engraved after Girard, de Rudder, and Chocarne, 21 costume plates heightened with gum arabic by Achille Deveria after Octavie Rossignon, E. Desmaisons et Elgger, three armorial plates and a lithographed panorama, contemporary half calf gilt. Described as “Un tres bel album sur la Suisse et les alpes, par M.M. le Marquis de Chateauviews, Dubochet, Franscini, le President Monnard, Mayer de Knonau, N. de Tutliman, Schnell Jue Straumeier, le Colonel de Tscharner, Henry Zscokke” (“magnificently illustrated. Very rare.”). Forestier’s 72 engraved plates show views of Switzerland, Geneva, Fribourg, Lausanne, Vevey, Berne, Lucerne, Bale, Zurich, and Lugano, each with a brief account descriptive of the manners and customs of each. Coloured plates in order: Volume 1. 1. Chasseurs de Chamois. 2. Bucherons descendent la Montagne. 3. Paysanne des Environs de Geneve. 4. Costumes du Canton Fribourg. 5. Paysannes du Canton de Vaud. 6. Costume de Neuchatel. 7. Armoiries de Soleure. 8. Costume de Soleure. 9. Armoiries de Berne. 10. Panorama de Thun (folding sepia). 11. Costume de Berne. Volume 2. 12. Carte General de la Suisse (map). 13. Lucerne et Zug. 14. Costume d'Argovie. 15. Costume de Schwitz. 16. Costumes d'Uri. 17. Costume de Unterwald. 18. Costume de Bale. 19. Costumes de Zurich. 20. Costume de Schafhouse (2 figs) / Costume de Thurgovie (2 figs). 21. Costume de Glaris. 22. Costume de St. Gall. 23. Costume d'Appenzell. 24. Costumes du Thessin (2 figs) / Femme des Grissons (1 fig).