HENTZI, Rudolph (1731-1803, editor). Vues remarquables des montagnes de la Suisse . Amsterdam: J. Yntema, 1785-[?1787]. 2° (355 x 484mm). Engraved frontispiece printed in bistre, letterpress title and one text leaf only with engraved headpiece, 41 colour-printed engraved plates only (of 42) by Janinet and Descourtis and after Wolf, Rosenberg, Clèment and Fuesly, each with coat-of-arms and dedicatory caption. (Lacking one plate and 10 leaves of text, some staining, spotting and soiling, mainly marginal, but slightly affecting image area of a few plates, frontispiece and printed title affected by damp and with wear to margins, a few plates with minor marginal defects including internal tears along plate mark, plate of 'Chapelle de Guillaume Tell' repaired at margin.) Uncut and unbound in modern red cloth portfolio. ONE OF THE EARLIEST AND RAREST ALPINE PLATE BOOKS with plates by Jean François Janinet (1752-1814) and Charles Melchior Descourtis (1753-1820), masters of the new colour-printing technique, the majority after the Swiss artist, Caspar Wolf (1735-1798). Wagner of Bern started preparing the series in 1779, but on his death in 1782 only 24 plates were reportedly ready. These were sold to Hentzi in 1785, who commissioned another 18 plates from Descourtis to complete the series. The present copy lacks Landwehr's plate 37, and is without the 4-page preface, 4-page introduction and plate list. Cohen-de Ricci notes that most copies contain only 40 plates, which is the number called for by Landwehr. ONLY ONE COPY HAS APPEARED IN ANGLO-AMERICAN AUCTION RECORDS FOR THE PAST TWENTY-FIVE YEARS. Landwehr Dutch Books with Coloured Plates 307; Lonchamp 3197; Cohen-de Ricci 485: 'recueil fort rare'.
HENTZI, Rudolph (1731-1803, editor). Vues remarquables des montagnes de la Suisse . Amsterdam: J. Yntema, 1785-[?1787]. 2° (355 x 484mm). Engraved frontispiece printed in bistre, letterpress title and one text leaf only with engraved headpiece, 41 colour-printed engraved plates only (of 42) by Janinet and Descourtis and after Wolf, Rosenberg, Clèment and Fuesly, each with coat-of-arms and dedicatory caption. (Lacking one plate and 10 leaves of text, some staining, spotting and soiling, mainly marginal, but slightly affecting image area of a few plates, frontispiece and printed title affected by damp and with wear to margins, a few plates with minor marginal defects including internal tears along plate mark, plate of 'Chapelle de Guillaume Tell' repaired at margin.) Uncut and unbound in modern red cloth portfolio. ONE OF THE EARLIEST AND RAREST ALPINE PLATE BOOKS with plates by Jean François Janinet (1752-1814) and Charles Melchior Descourtis (1753-1820), masters of the new colour-printing technique, the majority after the Swiss artist, Caspar Wolf (1735-1798). Wagner of Bern started preparing the series in 1779, but on his death in 1782 only 24 plates were reportedly ready. These were sold to Hentzi in 1785, who commissioned another 18 plates from Descourtis to complete the series. The present copy lacks Landwehr's plate 37, and is without the 4-page preface, 4-page introduction and plate list. Cohen-de Ricci notes that most copies contain only 40 plates, which is the number called for by Landwehr. ONLY ONE COPY HAS APPEARED IN ANGLO-AMERICAN AUCTION RECORDS FOR THE PAST TWENTY-FIVE YEARS. Landwehr Dutch Books with Coloured Plates 307; Lonchamp 3197; Cohen-de Ricci 485: 'recueil fort rare'.
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