BASEL - Bruckner, Daniel. Versuch einer Beschreibung historischer und natürlicher Merkwürdigkeiten der Landschaft Basel. 23 pieces in 7 volumes. With 6 border- or partly coloured folded. Copper maps, 53 (instead of 54, of which 47 folded) gest. views, 50 (instead of 52, thereof 49 folded and 1 coloured) copper plates as well as numerous title and text woodcuts (partly in repetition) by J.-A. Chovin, J. R. Holzhalb, I. R. Metzger, after E. Buchel a.o. Basel, E. Thurneysen, 1749-1770. 8°. Later half-leather volumes with 2 spine labels each and using old covers with gold-stamped coat-of-arms supralibros and motto of the Order of the Garter. Barth 19683 - Lonchamp 465 - Haller I, 841 - Feller/Bonjour 481f. - Wäber 112 - Studer, Geschichte der physischen Geographie der Schweiz, 1863, p. 343: "The most important work on specielle topography from this time". - The first two pieces in second (1764 and 1770 resp.), the others in first edition. - Complete set of this most important regional history of Switzerland with detailed description of topography, local history, genealogy, archaeology, botany, zoology a. mineralogy of the Basel region. Thanks to the Basel lawyer Daniel Bruckner, a connoisseur of local sources, "the model of a local history on a scientific basis" (F./B.) was created. His work was complemented by the contributions of the council member Friedrich Zwinger and the merchant Johann Jakob Bavier, who described the botany, zoology and petrofacts. - The vedute from the region of Basel, the gest. Plates with depictions of petrefacts, fossils, castles and archaeological finds. - Very good and clean copy.