Author: ZURICH. - BLUNTSCHLI, Hans Heinrich.
Title: Memorabilia Tigurina, oder Merkwürdigkeiten der Stadt und Landschaft Zürich. Third augmented edition, ed. by Johann Balthasar Bullinger.
Description: 1742 (reprint Winterthur 1975) Engr. frontispiece "Memorabilia Urbis et Agri Tigurini" with a small view of Zurich, 1 folding map (c. 415 x 370 mm) engr. by Johann Heinrich Freytag after J. J. Scheuchzer and H. C. Gyger, and 39 small engr. views by Johann Melchior Füssli, originally mounted on blank pages. 4 unn. leaves (incl. frontispiece), 713 pp. Small 4to. Modern boards. Zurich, Heidegger & Compagnie, 1742 (reprint Winterthur 1975). Most comprehensive edition of the best-known history of mainly town and canton of Zurich with many views. Entries are found about villages, buildings, historical events, battles, government offices, weather conditions, etc. arranged in alphabetical order. Hans Heinrich Bluntschli's (1656-1722) work is present here in fresh copy of a reprint edition done in 1975. - Haller I, 763 and 352; Lonchamp 350. HELVETICA ;

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