If you would like to get in touch, please feel free to contact: email hidden; JavaScript is required
Browse collection
- Full collection
- 18th Century & earlier
- Ackermann
- Africa
- Alken
- Animals
- Arabasia
- Architecture/Mansions
- Art
- Australasia
- Botany
- British Isles
- Caricatures
- Children
- China
- Chromo added colour
- Chromolithographs
- Conchology
- Costume
- Cruikshank
- Culture/Lifestyle
- Dutch
- East European
- Far East
- France
- Furniture/Antiques
- General
- Germany
- Grandville
- Heraldry
- History
- History - England
- History - Europe
- Holy Land
- India
- India - sepia
- Islam
- Italy
- Japan
- Literature
- London
- Manuscript
- Map
- Military
- Monnier
- Natural history
- Pastimes
- Pochoir
- Polar regions
- Portraits
- Religious/Christian
- Religious/other
- Rowlandson
- Russia
- Science
- Scrapbook
- Sepia
- South America
- Sports/Hunting
- Stamps
- Swiss
- The Americas
- Theatre
- Travel/Scenery
- Watercolours
- World
WEIBEL, Jakob Samuel
Phillippe Albert Stapfer.
Voyage Pittoresque de l'Oberland, ou Description de Vues prises dans l'Oberland, District du Canton de Berne.
A gorgeous album of plates of the Oberland, scarce and much sort after (Pettet, Longchamp). The frontispiece and 12 of the 14 plates were published in 1796. Two plates and a map were new to this edition: those of the Jungfrau and the glaciers at Grindelwald. Ackermann published the work in London in 1812.
- Published
- Paris and Strasbourg: Chez Treuttel et Wurtz, 1812.
- References
- Perrett 4534; Bobins 501.
- Plates
- 15
- Binding/Size
- M=4to
- Value
- 25001-100000
- Published
- Paris and Strasbourg: Chez Treuttel et Wurtz, 1812.
- Ref
- 5445
[Picturesque Journey of the Oberland, or Description of Views Taken in the Oberland District] FIRST EDITION. Small folio. 91 pp., Frontispiece, 14 hand-coloured copper-engraved plates by J.S. Weibel, map of Oberland, contemporary boards (teal paper over boards, uncut. Spine defective, title label to (part) spine. This work has been professionally repaired and restored with new endpapers, new inner hinges, and work to the spine. Rebinding and restoration work on this book was carried out by Ron Norman of Hartlepool (Ronnorn@aol.com) Coloured plates in order: 1. Frontispiece. 2. Vue de la Ville de Thoune. 3. Vue des Environs de Thoun. 4. Vue de Chateau d'Oberhofen au Lac de Thoune. 5. Vue de Chateau de Spiez au Lac de Thoune. 6. Vue de la Ville d'Unterseen. 7. Vue d'Interlaken. 8. Ruine d'Unspunnen pres d'Interlaken. 9. La Cime de la Jungfrau dans la Vallee de Lauterbrounnen. 10. Vue des Glacieres de Grindelwald. 11. Vue des Glacieres de Rosenlaui sur le Mont Scheidegg, dans la Vallee d'Oberhasle. 12. Vue de Meiringen, dans la Vallee d'Oberhasle. 13. Vue de Pont de Wyler & de la Chutte d'Oltshenbach dans la Vallee d'Oberhasle. 14. Vue du Village de Brienz. 15. Vue de Chateau de Ringenberg au Lac de Brienz.
