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CHATEAUVIEUX, Lullin de.
La Suisse historique et pittoresque.
A pleasant little book detailing the historic regional Swiss costumes of all the different Cantons. Complete with a folding map of Switzerland for reference.
- Published
- Paris: Didier, 1858.
- Plates
- 14 + 2
- Binding/Size
- M=4to
- Value
- 0-5000
- Published
- Paris: Didier, 1858.
- Ref
- 681
2 vols. 4to. (IV)+LVI+208;(IV)+261+(3) pp. With two folding coloured maps, 71 steel-engr. views & 14 hand-col. costume plates. Hardcover. Contemporary brown morocco, spines richly gilt. VG. (Old bookseller's label on pastedowns; occasional light foxing mostly to margins of text pages - most plates are fine). * RARE EDITION with maps, hand-coloured plates & an extended number of engravings. There are also copies known with 68 or 70 engravings and 16 or 18 costume plates. Coloured plates in order: Volume 1. 1. Frontis. Bucherons descendant la Montagne. 2. [Folding Map] Carte Generale de la Suisse. 3. Paysanne des environs de Geneve. 4. Paysanne du Canton de Vaud. 5. Costume du Valais. 6. Costume de Neuchatel. Volume 2. 7. Costume d'Argovie. 8. Costumes d'Uri. 9. Costume de Unterwald. Le Depart du Chasseur au Chamoir. 10. Costumes de Zurich. 11. [Costumes] Lucerne et Zug. 12. Costumes de Schafhouse / Costumes de Thurgovie. 13. Costume de Glaris. 14. Costume de St. Gall. 15. Costumes du Tessin / Femme des Grisons. 16. [Folding Map] Lac de Geneve et Vallee de Chamouny.
