Switzerland rare books

4to. 36 issues, With manuscript title page, 36 aquatint plates, including one folding and 33 hand-coloured, some heightened with gum arabic, each acompanied by an engraved portrait of the artist and text with biographical information and mostly with separate title page which states year of publication; occasional light spotting. Contemporary half calf over marbled boards, flat spine gilt; lightly rubbed.

Engraved map, hand-coloured in outline, dissected and mounted on linen, extending west to east from London to Kracow and north to south from Copenhagen to Genoa, inset road map of Europe, lower left, key to map lower right, 'G. Biggs' mapseller's advertisements pasted to recto, publisher's label and advert pasted to endpapers, red cloth slip-case with label, worn, discolouration to map.