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HENTZY, R. - Promenade pittoresque dans l'évêché de Bâle aux bords de la Birs, de la Sorne, et de la Suze.
Amsterdam, T.B. Groebe (colophon: imprimé par J.G. Rohloff), [ca.1809]. 2 vols. 198 - 220 pp. With 44 aquatints in black and white (ca. 115 x 160 mm.). Gold and blind tooled cont. half calf . (Stamps on flyleaves and title-page.) ¶-"Je me bornerai simplement à prévenir le Lecteur bénévolé que ces lettres ne sont destinées qu'à servir de cadres à une suite de dessins fidellement tracés d'après nature, dans une promenade faite à travers les défilés du Jura, accompagné d'un peintre paysagiste."- A beautiful copy with charming aquatints by an unknown artist. With the booksellers-ticket of Van Tetroode Amsterdam. Rudolf Hentzy of Hentzi (Bern 1731- Den Haag 1803) was the son of the executed Swiss politician Samuel Hentzi. In 1749 18 years old he went with his mother in exile to The Hague, where his father had friends at court. In 1785 he issued the coloured "Vues remarquables des montagnes de la Suisse" , maybe as revenge to the Swiss for the murder of his father. After he died, in 1805, his library was sold at auction in The Hague by Gerrit Backhuyzen, who also bought the manuscript and copperplates for this work. It was issued first in The Hague in 1808-09, in the same year this edition was published in Amsterdam. (E.F. Kossman, De boekhandel te 's-Gravenhage, p.177f.; R. van Vliet, Felix Helvetia. In: De Boekenwereld 23 (2008), p.2-19.)
EUR 3900.00 [Appr.: US$ 4179.67 | £UK 3334.25 | JP¥ 650418] Booknumber: 107606
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EUR 3900.00 [Appr.: US$ 4179.67 | £UK 3334.25 | JP¥ 650418] Booknumber: 107606
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