[Ruchat, Abraham]. État et délices de la Suisse. Ou Description historique et géographique des treize cantons suisses et de leurs alliés. Nouvelle édition. 6 parts in 2 volumes. With 2 gest. Frontispices and 12 (instead of 68) copper plates. Neuchâtel, S. Fauche, 1778. 4°. [2] ll., IV p., 454 p., [1] leaf; [2] ll., 391 p. Leather bindings of the time (somewhat bumped, covers with traces of scraping). Barth 17230 - Lonchamp 2560 - Wäber I, 38 cf. Feller/B. 529 f. - Fourth edition, the first in quarto. - Ruchat had the first edition published in Leiden in 1714 under the pseudonym "Gottlieb Kypseler". "He is the first great historian that Vaud has produced." (F./B.). - Copy without the maps. - Somewhat browned and foxed in places.

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