28 - [Switzerland - ZURLAUBEN (Béat-Fidèle-Dominique-Antoine de) & LA BORDE (Jean-Benjamin de)].

[Switzerland - ZURLAUBEN (Béat-Fidèle-Dominique-Antoine de) & LA BORDE (Jean-Benjamin de)]. Scenes of Switzerland, or A Picturesque Journey Through the Thirteen Cantons of the Helvetic Confederation, Depicting the Various Phenomena That Nature Has Gathered There, and the Beauties With Which Art Has Enriched Them. Second edition, illustrated with 428 plates, drawn and engraved by the finest artists of the capital. Paris, Lamy, 1784–1788. 12 tomes in 6 volumes, quarto size, light calfskin, spine with decorated raised bands, title and volume number labels in red and lemon-yellow morocco, double gilt fillet framing the covers, small gilt fleurons in the spandrels, red edges (contemporary binding). Caps, joints, and corners worn and scuffed. The illustrations consist of 429 (out of 430) plates engraved (views, maps, portraits) by Née and Masquelier after Pérignon and Le Barbier: Volume I: plates 1–32 (including the frontispiece—No. 1—and the general map of Switzerland—No. 20). Volume II: plates 33–126. Volume III: plates 127–195 (plate 171, map of the canton of Neuchâtel, is missing). Volume IV: plates 196–223. Volume V: plates 224–246. Volume VI: plates 247–288. Volume VII: plates 289–318. Volume VIII: plates 319–341. Volume IX: plates 342–373. Volume X: plates 374–400. Volume XI: plates 401–414. Volume XII: plates 415–430. Light foxing in places. Missing the thirteenth and final volume of tables (which is often missing from this edition). Ex-libris bearing the initials “AB” and the motto “Extinguam et non extinguar.”