Stumpf, Johannes. Gemeiner loblicher Eydgnoschafft Stetten, Landen und Völckeren Chronick wirdiger thaaten beschreybung. 13 parts in 1 volume. With 5 double leaf and 8 leaf sized woodcut maps as well as ca. 4000 text and coat of arms woodcuts. Zurich, Ch. Froschauer, 1548. folio. [5, 332 and 10 folios. (d.l.w.), 467 ll., [10] ll. Blind stamped pigskin d. Z. with 8 corner mounts and 2 centrepieces (clasps defective, one enclosed loose; more stained and somewhat bumped). VD16 S 9864 - BM STC German 839 - Vischer C 396 - Barth 10216 - Haller IV, 396 - Lonchamp 2819 - Feller/B. p. 180 ff. - Leemann-van Elck, Froschauer p. 106ff. - First edition of the most important printed Swiss chronicle of the 16th century with the magnificent woodcuts by Hans Asper, Heinrich Vogtherr, Rudolf and Johann Wyssenbach a. o. - "With this chronicle the series of printed works on Swiss history reaches its climax; it is distinguished by an abundance of high-quality pictorial decoration never offered before. It surpasses even the famous World Chronicle by Hartmann Schedel, published in Nuremberg in 1493. About 4000 ills. adorn the monumental work, whereby, as usual at that time, the same sticks were used several times [...]; the abundance of the illustrations is overwhelming" (L.-v. E.). - At the beginning stronger damp and finger-stained resp. in the margins, small traces partly backed; otherwise a neat copy. - Provenance: handwritten ownership note Eduard Merian on endpaper, dat. 1842.