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| ORTELIUS, A. - Helvetiae descriptio. Antwerp, 1598, Coloured.. 343x455mm. French text on verso. A fine map based upon a map by the Swiss cartographer Aegidicus Tschudi of 1538....
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| LANGENES, B. / BERTIUS, P. - Helvetia. Amsterdam, 1606, Uncoloured.. 85x125mm. In very good condition, lightly age toned, wide margins, a nice dark impression. Latin text to verso. Some show through of verso text. A lovely miniature map of Switzerland, published by Petrus Bertius, in Amsterdam at the beginning of the seventeenth century. Full of facinating topographical detail, and engraved with a high degree of cartographic skill. This example is from the Tabularum Geographicarum Contractarum.
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| TAVERNIER, M. - Charte de la suisse, de la Rhetie, ou des Grisons, de la Valteline, du Valay . . . Paris, ca. 1625, In original colours.. 375x513mm. Light brown stain in left hand part of the map. In very good to mint condition. Rare map of Switzerland and northern part of Italy, prepared by Gaspard Baudouin. The map extends south to include Milan and Crema and north to Basle. Dated 1625 with the publishers address lower right "A Paris chez Melchior Tavernier demeurant sur l'Isle du Palais sur le quay qui Regard la Me...
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| MERCATOR, G./ HONDIUS, J. - No title. [Zürich and Basle] Amsterdam, 1630, In original colours.. 355x471mm. A good and strong impression. Paper age-toned, as usual. Dark impression. Map of Zürich and Basle provinces....
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| JANSSONIUS, J. - Nova Helvetiae Tabula. Amsterdam, 1630, Coloured.. 408x532mm. A good and dark impression. A most decorative "carte à figures" map with panoramic views of Lucern, S.Gal, Bern, Solothurn, Schafhausen in upper border and Basel and Zurich in lower left and right hand corner. In the side borders are portraits of male and female costumed figures. ...
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| MERCATOR, G. / HONDIUS, J. - Helvetia cum finitimis regionibus confoederatis. Amsterdam, 1630, In original colours.. 352x468mm. A good and strong impression. Paper slightly age-toned, as usual. Altogether in very good condition. Detailed and finely engraved map of Switzerland....
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| [MERCATOR, Gerard & HONDIUS, Jodocus]. - Nova Helvetia Tabula. Amsterdam, J.Janssonius, 1628-1634, Uncoloured. 144x195mm. Very good condition. Single page map of Switzerland. Several place names neatly underlined in red ink in an old hand. Latin text on verso....
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| MANESSON MALLET, A. - Suisse. Paris, 1683, Uncoloured.. 142x98mm. Paper slightly age toned, strong impression. In fine condition. A charming map of Switzerland. Title in curtain draped at top. French text on verso. From the original 1683 text edition of "Description d'Univers. . ." by Allain Manesson Mallet (1630-1706), a well travelled military engineer and geographer who worked in 17th century France under King Lo...
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| DE L'ISLE, G. - Carte de Suisse ou sont les Cantos de. . . Paris, Aout 1715, In original o/l colours.. 495x640mm. Slightly water staining at lower part of the map. Centre fold reinforced at lower part. General map of Switzerland with all the cantons good detail, with the imprint "A Paris Chez l’Auteur sur le Quai de l’Horloge Avec Privilège Aout 1715". In upper part 24 coats of arms of the different cantons. Guillaume de l'Isle's (1675-1726) well deserved reputation as one of the foremost geograp...
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| VAUGONDY, R. de - Les Suisses, les Alliés des Suisses et leurs Sujets. Paris, later than 1749, In original o/l colours.. 162x203mm. Very crisp and fine image. Good margins. Very good condition. Small detailed map of Switzerland. From Atlas Portatif Universel, by Robert de Vaugondy. Unrecorded state with erased date. Page 31 outside border top right. Mary Sponberg Pedley does not mention a state without date....
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| NOLIN, J.B. - Les Suisses leurs sujets et leurs alliez. . . Paris, ca. 1760, In original o/l colours.. 463x585mm. Added margins. Good condition. Un uncommon map of Switzerland by Nolin....
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| DURY, A. / SAYER, R. / KITCHIN, T. - Switzerland divided into Cantonments. London, 1761-1763, In original o/l colours.. 105x120mm. Paper very slightly age toned and some very light offsetting due to oxidation of ink. Uncommon miniature map of Switzerland, engraved by Thomas Kitching for "A New General and Universal Atlas Containing Forty five Maps by Andrew Dury". This miniature atlas published during the Seven Years' War. The maps are typical for the period and well executed with great clarity. The pl...
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| SEUTTER, M. - Nova Totius Helvetiae cum suis subditis ac sociis tab. Geogr. . . Augsburg, J.M.Will, 1778, Original colours.. 195x258mm. Paper slightly age-toned, and with mainly marginal spotting. Good impression. Miniature map of Switzerland. Engraved by Tobias Conrad Lotter. Helvetia is the Roman name for an ancient region of central Europe occupying a plateau between the Alps and the Jura Mountains. Helvetia corresponded roughly to the western part of modern Switzerland. From Atlas Minor, he...
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| WALCH, J. - Schweiz. Augsburg, 1812, In original colours.. 164x226mm. The paper has age-toning, and marginal thumbling and light spotting. Dark impression. Nice small map of Switzerland by Johannes Walch in his rare Allgemeiner Atlas Nach den bewährsten Hülfsmitteln und astronomischen Ortsbestimungen…, edition of 1812. Johann Walch (1757-1824) was cartographer and map publisher active in Augsburg, he was the son-in-law of Johann Martin Will...
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| ARROWSMITH, John - Switzerland &c, and the Passes of The Alps. London, 1839, In original o/l colours.. 480x600mm. In good condition. With marginal markings only. Lower centrefold split (13 cm). A large steel engraved map of Switzerland, that continues down into Piedmont and Lombardy. A wealth of detail is shown. An assortment of mileage scales given. The Arrowsmith family members were among the most respected and influential cartographers of the nineteenth century. Taken from 'The Lon...
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| MONIN, C.V. - Suisse. Paris, 1845, In original o/l colours.. 198x265mm. Steel engraving in original out line colours. Good margins. In good condition. Detailed map of Switzerland, prepared by Charles V. Monin (fl.1830-1880) a French cartographer of Caen and Paris. Published in Atlas Universel de Géographie Ancienne &c Moderne en 42 Cartes dressé par C.V. Monin. Engraved by Laguillermie....
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| PETRI Girolamo - Diocesi della Svizzera (Tav IV) Rome, 1858, In attractive original wash colours.. 470x590mm. With original full hand colour, on fine wove paper watermarked ‘Pietro Miliani Fabriano’, size of the sheet 570 x 800 mm. This large-format Switzerland map is finely engraved and beautifully coloured and was prepared by Girolamo Petri, a lawyer who served as a senior official within the Vatican’s State Secretariat, the arm of the Holy See responsible for managing its relationships with foreign powers.
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| STUMPF, J. - VII. Das Ergow. Zurich, Christoffel Froschover, 1548,1552-1566, Uncoloured.. 298x185mm. Wood block printed map. Good margins, and printed on good sound paper. Very early wood cut printed regional map of Switzerland centered on Ergow.
Originally engraved in 1548. The map was prepared by Johannes Stumpf (1500-1576). Included in "Landtaflen. Hierinn findst du lieber Läser schöner recht und wolgemachter Landtaflen XII namlich ein Allgemeine Europ...
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| STUMPF, J. - IX. Die Lepontier. Zurich, Christoffel Froschover, 1548,1552-1566, Uncoloured.. 280x183mm. Wood block printed map. Good margins, and printed on good sound paper. Very early wood cut printed regional map of Switzerland.
Originally engraved in 1548. The map was prepared by Johannes Stumpf (1500-1576). Included in "Landtaflen. Hierinn findst du lieber Läser schöner recht und wolgemachter Landtaflen XII namlich ein Allgemeine Europae demnach etlich ...
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| STUMPF, J. - XI. Wallis. Zurich, Christoffel Froschover, 1548,1552-1566, Uncoloured.. 171x290mm. Wood block printed map. Good margins, and printed on good sound paper. Very early wood cut printed regional map of Switzerland with Wallis region.
Originally engraved in 1548. The map was prepared by Johannes Stumpf (1500-1576). Included in "Landtaflen. Hierinn findst du lieber Läser schöner recht und wolgemachter Landtaflen XII namlich ein Allgemeine Euro...
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| STUMPF, J. - XII. Laurater Basler gelegenheit. Zurich, Christoffel Froschover, 1548,1552-1566, Uncoloured.. 171x290mm. Wood block printed map. Good margins, and printed on good sound paper. Very early wood cut printed regional map of Switzerland with Basel region.
Originally engraved in 1548. The map was prepared by Johannes Stumpf (1500-1576). Included in "Landtaflen. Hierinn findst du lieber Läser schöner recht und wolgemachter Landtaflen XII namlich ein Allgemeine Europ...
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| ORTELIUS, A. - Basiliensis territorii descriptio nova. Antwerp, 1573, Coloured.. 320x240mm. Age toning and waterstaning. Latin text on verso. Left hand map centered on Basle, east to top. With credit to Sebastian Münster in title cartouche....
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| MERCATOR, G. / HONDIUS, J. - Das Wiflispurgergou. Amsterdam, 1608, Coloured.. 140x186mm. Paper browned. Some discolouration in the upper part. Reduced version of Mercator''s map of the southwestern part of Switzerland. Shows Geneva, Lake Geneva, Lake Neuchatel, Lake Biel, Bern, Freiburg, Lake Thuner, etc. From the first French-text edition of Jodocus Hondius'' Atlas Minor. Shortly after the publication of the big folio-atlases th...
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| HONDIUS, J. - Alpinae seu Foederatae Rhaetiae . . . Amsterdam, 1629, Uncoloured.. 375x488mm. A good and dark impression. Extremely rare first edition of this beautiful map of Graubünden Canton in Switzerland. Including Chur, Davos, St.Moritz, etc. Jodocus Hondius Jr. planned to produce a new modern atlas less dependent on the Mercator plates that his father had acquired in 1604. It would make sense that he consid...
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| MERCATOR, G. / HONDIUS, J. - Das Wiflispurgergov. Amsterdam 1630, In original colours.. 360x479mm. A good and strong impression. Paper slightly age-toned, as usual. Altogether in very good condition. In lower right Geneva and Lake Geneva with Lausanne. In center of map the cantons of Fribourg and Bern....
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| BLAEU, W. - Zurichgow et Basiliensis Provincia [ Zurich]. Amsterdam, 1634, Uncoloured.. 355x470mm. Very good condition. Repair of a small 2cm split to extreme lower centerfold, not affecting engraved area. Good dark impression. German text on verso. Finely engraved map including the towns of Basel, Lucerne, Zurich, etc. Physical features of the region are well delineated. From early on Willem Jansz. Blaeu aimed of publishing an atlas to compete with the Hondius-Jansson Atlas. By 1630, he had published at least 17 folio size maps. Blaeu wa...
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| [MERCATOR, Gerard & HONDIUS, Jodocus]. - Lacus Lemanus. Amsterdam, J.Janssonius, 1628-1634, Uncoloured. 134x200mm. Some light show through text, else in very good condition. Single page map of Lake Geneva and its environs. Latin text on verso....
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| [MERCATOR, Gerard & HONDIUS, Jodocus]. - Das Wiflispurgergou. Amsterdam, J.Janssonius, 1628-1634, Uncoloured. 140x183mm. Some very light show through text, otherwise in very good condition. Single page map of eastern Switzerland. Latin text on verso....
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| BLAEU, W. - Zurichgow et Basiliensis Provincia [ Zurich]. Amsterdam, 1635, In attractive strong original colours.. 355x470mm. In very good condition. A good and dark impression. Paper very slightly age-toned, printed on heavy paper. Finely engraved map including the towns of Basel, Lucerne, Zurich, etc....
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| BLAEU, W. - Alpinae seu Foederatae Rhaetiae subditarumque.. Amsterdam, 1638, In attractive strong original colours.. 378x495mm. Near to mint condition. Good margins. Very good condition. Printed on heavy paper. Very good and dark impression. French text on verso. Detailed map Graubünden Canton in Switzerland. Including Chur, Davos, St.Moritz, etc. Engraved by Simon Hamersveldt. Originally engraved for Jodocus Hondius, at his death on August 18, 1629, this among 39 other Hondius copper plates were purchased by Willem Blaeu who deleted Hondius' name and a...
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| HONDIUS, H. - Zurichgow et Basiliensis provincia. Amsterdam, 1639, In original colours.. 355x470mm. Paper slightly age-toned, as usual. Generally good. Including the towns of Basle, Lucerne, Zürich, etc....
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| HONDIUS, H. - Argow . Amsterdam, 1639, In attractive original colours. 385x500mm. Repair lower part center fold. Else very fine. Centered on the Bernese and Lucerne. Including the towns of Lucerne, Bern and Thuner- and Lucerner See. Prepared by Gerard Mercator....
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| BLAEU, W. - Lacus Lemanni Locorumque circumiacentium Accuratissima descriptio. Amsterdam, 1644, In attractive strong original colours.. 410x520mm. In very good condition. Paper very slightly browned and with light spotting to margins. Good dark impression. French text on verso. From the 1644 edition of Blaeu's Atlas Novus. RARE. A fabulous map depicting row boats and sailing vessels dotting the surface of Lake Geneva, which is further enchanted by a compass rose radiating rhumb lines. The lake is surrounded by finely engraved mountains and forests. Three decorative c...
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| MANESSON MALLET, A. - Les 13 cantons Suisses et leurs alliez. Paris, 1683, Uncoloured.. 145x108mm. Paper slightly age toned, strong impression. In fine condition. A charming map of the 13 cantons of the old Swiss Confederacy. Title in curtain draped at top. French text on verso. From the original 1683 text edition of "Description d'Univers. . ." by Allain Manesson Mallet (1630-1706), a well travelled military engineer and geographer who worked in ...
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| DE L'ISLE, G. - Carte de la souveraineté de Neuchatel et Vallangin. Paris, c. 1710, In original o/l colours.. 475x620mm. Slightly water staining at lower part of the map. Map of the canton of Neuchatel in Switzerland engraved by Liébaux fils. No address. Decorated with a title cartouche composed of 2 eagles and a crown, and with a wind rose.
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| VAUGONDY, R. de - II. Cours du Rhin où sont les environs de Basle, et de Rhinfelden. Paris, later than 1749, In original o/l colours.. 166x158mm. Very crisp and fine image. Good margins. Very fine condition. Small detailed map illustrating the stretch of the Rhine which flows between Basel and Rheinfelden. From Atlas Portatif Universel, by Robert de Vaugondy. Unrecorded state with erased date. Page 34b outside border top right. Mary Sponberg Pedley does not mention a state without da...
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| SEUTTER, M. - Delineatio Pagi Tigurini ex observationibus recentissimis et accuratissimis : accedit seorsim in tabella dominum Sax et Forsteck. Augsburg 1780, In original colours.. 494x577mm. In mint condition. Detailed map centered on Zurich. With very fine cartouches, upper right 36 coats of arms of cities in the region. Engraved by Tobias C. Lotter....
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| SEUTTER, M. - Pagi Basileensis qui pars est reipublicae Helvetiorum.. Augsburg, 1780, In original colours.. 493x574mm. Printed on heavy paper. A good and dark impression. Short crease close to lower part center fold. Detailed map of Basle Canton, centred on Basel and Rheinfelden. With fine title cartouche with panoramic view of Basel and heraldic figures like Neptune's, Mercury, Justitia, etc. Engraved by Tobias C. Lotter....
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| VAUGONDY, R. de - III. Cours du Rhin où sont les environs de Brisach, Newenburg, Fribourg &c. Paris, 1799, In original o/l colours.. 163x198mm. Very crisp and fine image. Good margins. Very good condition. Small detailed map illustrating the stretch of the Rhine which flows between Nuremburg and Breisach am Rhein. From Atlas Portatif Universel, by Robert de Vaugondy. Page 34c outside border top right. Mary Sponberg Pedley does not mention a state without date....
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| ILYIN, A. - [Map of the Alps]. St. Petersburg, 1899, In printed o/l colours.. 182x260mm. In very good condition. A detailed map of the Alps from Учебный Географический Атлас published by the very successful St. Petersburg publisher "Cartographic institution...
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| ILYIN, A. - [Mont-Blanc]. St. Petersburg, 1899, In printed o/l colours.. 185x123mm. In very good condition. A detailed map cantered on the Mont Blanc and its vicinities from Учебный Географический Атлас published by the very successful St. Petersburg p...
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| ERNST, Otto. - Funicolare Monte Brè Lugano Suisse. Cassarate-Catagnola. Lugano, ca. 1930, In original lithograph colours.. 995x695mm. Original colour lithographed poster, backed on linen, in mint condition. Rare and authentic poster of the Lake Lugano, situated in the Switzerland mountains, with a view of the Funicolare of Monte Brè. Designed by Otto Ernst and printed and published by A. Trüb & Cie, Aarau - Lugano.
Otto Ernst was born in 1884 in he Swiss canton of Aargau. After his appr...
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| SCHEDEL, H. - Basilae [ Basle, CCXLIIII ] Nuremberg, 12 July 1493, Coloured.. 253x520mm. Very good condition, wide margins and attractive colours. Two sheets pasted together. A very fine view of Basle (253x520 cm). Verso showing the councils of Florence and Basle and two portraits. Page from the richest illustrated Incunabel, the famous: Nuremberg Chronicle, published the year that Columbus returned to Europe after discovering Amer...
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| MÜNSTER, S. - De Lucerna Helvetiorum Civitate. (Luzern) Basle, ca. 1564, Uncoloured.. 297x218mm. Wood block print with letterpress. Paper slightly age-toned. Generally in good condition. Size of the sheet : 297x218 mm. One Latin text page with a wood cut bird's-eye view of Luzern (147x157mm). From Münster's Cosmographia Universalis. The Cosmographia by Sebastian Münster from 1544 is the earliest German description of the world. It had numerous editions in different languages including Latin, French (trans...
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| MÜNSTER, S. - [ Zürich ] Basle, ca. 1564, Uncoloured.. 297x205mm. Wood block print with letterpress. Paper slightly age-toned. Generally in good condition. Size of the sheet : 297 x 205 mm. One Latin text page with a wood cut illustration of Zürich (120 x 173 mm). From Münster's Cosmographia Universalis. The Cosmographia by Sebastian Munster from 1544 is the earliest German description of the world. It had numerous editions in different languages including Latin, French (transl...
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| MEISNER, D. - S. Iulius. Frankfurt, 1623-1678, Uncoloured.. 100x145mm. Copper engraving. A good and dark impression. Very good. A very nice view of the town. On the foreground, a pont with several frogs are depicted. With a verse in two languages underneath the picture. The poet and topographer from Comothau, Daniel Meisner (1585-1625), started his first publication entitled Thesaurus Philo-Politicus in Frankfurt ...
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| MEISNER, D. - S. Iulius. Frankfurt 1623-1678, Uncoloured.. 100x145mm. Copper engraving. A good and dark impression. Very good. A very nice view of the castle. On the foreground, several frogs are depicted. With a verse in two languages underneath the picture. The poet and topographer from Comothau, Daniel Meisner (1585-1625), started his first publication entitled Thesaurus Philo-Politicus in Frankfurt in 1623,...
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| MEISNER, D. - S. Iohann. Plus vini abutitur quam temperanter. Frankfurt, 1623-1678, Uncoloured.. 100x145mm. Copper engraving. A good and dark impression. Very good. A very nice view of S.Johann Kloster with in the foreground, a wolf eating grapes. The Abbey of Saint John is an ancient Benedictine monastery in the Swiss municipality of Val Müstair, in the Canton of Graubünden. With a verse in German and Latin underneath the picture. The German text reads :...
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| AVELINE, P. / CREPY - Fribourg Ville d'Allemagne Capitale du païs de Brisgaw. Paris, 1690-1720, Uncoloured.. 200x311mm. Upper margin cut close, just shaving the upper right printed area. A very RARE panoramic town-viewof the city of Fribourg. The plate is numbered in red pencil in upper right corner. Engraved by Pierre Aveline (Paris, c.1656 - 23 May 1722). He was also a print-publisher and print-seller. He probably trained with Adam Pérelle and,...
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| WOLFF HEIRS, J. - Freyburg in der Schweitz. Augsburg, 1740, Uncoloured.. 335x1005mm. Printed from two plates. A good and dark impression. Paper a little wringled, else fine. Very fine panoramic town-view of Freiburg in Switzerland. With a numbered key (1-38) of principal buildings in town. The monasteries are prominently shown and have always formed a center of religious culture. During the Reformation, Freiburg remained Catholic, although i...
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