GRAUBÜNDEN - Guler von Weineck, Johann. Raetia: That is, Detailed and True Description of the Three Praiseworthy Graves of the Grisons and Other Reticulated Lands. With broad figurative title border, 5 (1 folded several times) double-page copper engraved maps, 5 double-page engraved plates and numerous woodcuts in text as well as printer's mark at the end. [Zurich, Johann Rudolf Wolff, 1616]. Folio. [4] (st. 7), 225 ll., [1] w., [7] (st. 14) ll. Parchment in the style of the time with a title on the spine (cover somewhat warped, lightly spotted, spine somewhat browned, slightly bumped). VD17 3:004397C - Barth 20316 - Lonchamp 1353 - Wäber 327 - Haller IV, 814 - Feller/Bonjour 387 - First edition. - Lacks the dedicatio, the gest. portrait of Guler, the complete map of Switzerland, the heraldic copper and 7 leaves of index. - The first German-language chronicle of Graubünden. The author Johann Guler von Weineck (1562-1637) came from a noble family of Davos, studied in Chur, Zurich and Basel and became at the age of barely 20 years a clerk of the ten courts. His cosmopolitanism was expressed in his foreign policy interest in Venetians and French, which is also expressed in the dedication of his "Rätia" to Louis XIII. The historical-topographical description of the Grisons is also the most important printed work of the Wolf print shop, Froschauer's successor. Particularly impressive also the double-page maps of the Zolliker pastor and mathematician M. Hirzgartner (see Blumer 85). - The beautiful title border above and below with 2 small views of Augsburg and Chur. - Somewhat browned and foxed, slightly dampstained, ink stained in places, last leaf with missing parts and tears (loss of text), last leaf mounted on Japan paper. - Provenance: hs. Ownership note on gest. title by Hieronymus Dietegen v. Salis-Seewis (1632-1705), bookplate by the Swiss architect Fritz Stehlin (1861-1923), some handwritten ownership notes by old hand. Ownership notes by old hand on flyleaf and gest. title. Title. This object marked with * (asterisk) is fully subject to VAT, i.e. for these objects VAT will be charged on the hammer price plus buyer's premium. Buyers who present a legally stamped export declaration will be refunded the VAT.