Andreae, J. G. R. Letters from Switzerland. With gest. Title vignette (Swiss map), 10 text vignettes and 18 partly several times folded. Copperplates by Schellenberg, Holzhalb and Pfenninger. Second impression. Zurich and Winterthur, J. C. Füessli Sohn, 1776. 4°. XXII, 245 (recte 345) pp., [1] fol. half-leather d. Z. with gilt label on spine and floral gilt on spine (hinge with stronger tear at upper capital, edges somewhat bumped, cover spotted). Barth 17539 - Lonchamp 118 - Thanner 609f. - Holzmann/B. 7570. - Second printing, the first with Wyttenbach's annotations and Schellenberg's illustrations. The Hanoverian apothecary Johann Gerhard Reinhard Andreä visited on a Swiss journey the naturalist Johannes Gessner, a descendant of the famous Conrad Gessner. The engraving by Holzhalb after J.C. Vogler shows the Rhine bridge near Schaffhausen. - On nice wove paper (papier vélin), one layer somewhat browned. - Dampstain in upper corner, in a few plates reaching just into the image; at the beginning slightly foxed resp. fingerstained.