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COXE, William (1747-1828):
Travels in Switzerland. In a series of letters to William Melmoth. In 2 volumes.
Dublin, for L. White (et al), 1789, in-8°, 1 leaf + VII p. + 2 leaves + VI + 555 p. / XIV p. + 1 leaf + 544 p. + 12 leaves (Index), with 1 folding panorama + 4 engraved plates, (both maps, Switzerland & Mont Blanc are lacking), pastedown of both volumes with Dublin College prize label in the Latin language filled in by hand for the pupil named Francis Blackburg, circular ‘Ex Libris Anthony Michaelis’ on endpaper of 1st vol., cont. marbled calf prize-bindings with gilt supralibros of Dublin College, green title labels on spine, spine soberly gilt, extremity of one spine and top of other chipped. Still a very good copy.
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VERY RARE DUBLIN IMPRINT. A revised and enlarged edition of Coxe's earlier publication of the letters, with engraved figures added, Another edition was published the same year in London. These editions served as the bases of a number of editions published in the following decenium.This copy includes the folding panorama "View of the Alps as seen from the environs of Berne", a plate "View of the lakes of Thun and Brienz from the top of the Niess", a plate showing the "Head of bearded vulture", and 2 simple plates: the timber bridge of Wettingen, and two bouquetins. Cox first published his travels in 1779 under the title «Sketches of the natural, civil and political state of Switzerland».Coxe left a curacy in Denham, near Uxbridge, to become tutor to the Duke of Marlborough's eldest son, and two years later became travelling tutor to the son of the Earl of Pembroke. It was in this capacity that he undertook the travels through Switzerland about which he wrote here. According to Abbey ‘Coxe is credited with being the first to apply notions of the ‘Picturesque’ to Switzerland, and with being one of the first to write in such a way as to open the country up to touristic possibilities’ Cf. Barth 17601, Cox I/158, Engelmann II/924, Lowndes I/543, and Graesse II/293; cf. Perret 1159.
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Harteveld Rare Books Ltd.
M. Ben Harteveld
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1700 Fribourg
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41 (0)26 3223808
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3 book(s) with the same title
Travels in Switzerland. In a series of letters to William Melmoth. In 2 volumes.
Dublin, for L. White, P. Byrne, Grueber & McAllister etc., M. DCC LXXXIX, (1789), in-8°, XII p. + VI + 555 p. / XIV p. + 1 leaf (maps and plates) + 544 p. + 12 leaves (Index), with 1 folding panorama + 4 engraved plates, (some pages in the beginning of vol. 2 are loosening), (lacking maps of Switzerland & Mont-Blanc), stamp on title, recent clothbinding, leather titlepiece on spine.
VERY RARE DUBLIN IMPRINT. A revised and enlarged edition of Coxe's earlier publication of the letters, with engraved figures added, Another edition was published the same year in London. These editions served as the base of a number of editions published in the following decenium. This copy includes the folding panorama "View of the Alps as seen from the environs of Berne", a plate "View of the lakes of Thun and Brienz from the top of the Niess", a plate showing the "Head of bearded vulture", and 2 simple plates: the timber bridge of Wettingen, and two bouquetins. According to Abbey ‘Coxe is credited with being the first to apply notions of the ‘Picturesque’ to Switzerland, and with being one of the first to write in such a way as to open the country up to touristic possibilities’. The 2 maps indicated on the list of maps were not included in this copy. Cf. Barth 17601, Cox I/158, Engelmann II/924, Lowndes I/543, and Graesse II/293; cf. Perret 1159. image disp.
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Travels in Switzerland and in the country of the Grisons. In a series of letters to William Melmoth from William Coxe. With an historical sketch and notes on the late revolution. The fourth edition in 3 volumes.
London, Printed by A. Strahan for T. Cadell Jun. & W. Davies, 1801, in-8°, 1) 6 leaves + 428 p. + 2 engraved plates, (lacking map of Switzerland) / 2) VIII + 430 p. + 1 large folded map of the Mont-Blanc and Adjacent Alps, 2 plates (full grown male bouquetin - head of the bearded vulture (folding) + Panorama of the Alps as seen from Berne / 3) XVI + 451 p., engraved heraldic ex-libris: Georgii E.M. Grand, full calf bindings, (vol. 1 diff. from 2 &3).
Vol. 1) First illustrated edition. In fact this is a revised and enlarged edition of Coxe’s earlier publication of the letters, with engraved figures and maps added. The first volume contains 37 letters, in which the British historian William Coxe is reporting on the most interesting sites, and their cantons, including travel experiences as well as valuable geographical (glaciers, lakes, rivers, etc.), political and historical facts (foreign service, battles, international relations, etc.), on the following itinerary: Schaffhausen, Constance, St. Gallen, Appenzell, Glarus, Einsiedeln, Zürich, Bridge of Wettingen (with engr. plate of its elevation), Basel, Bienne, Soleure, Zug, Lucerne, Unterwalden, Gothard, Furca, Grimsel, Scheidegg, Staubbach, Lake of Thun and Brientz (with engraved plate), Lenk, Son, Martigny, Mont Blanc, the Valley of Ice, etc.. / Vol. 2 & 3: The rare 4th edition with the suppl. historical notes on the revolution. Barth 17601; Wäber p. 38; Perret 1159. (This copy with the folded map of the Mont-Blanc and Adjacent Alps). image disp.
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Travels in Switzerland and in the country of the Grisons. In a series of letters to William Melmoth from William Coxe. With an historical sketch and notes on the late revolution. The fourth edition. In 3 volumes.
London, Printed by A. Strahan for T. Cadell Jun. & W. Davies, 1801, in-8°, XII + LXX (first leaf I/II not bound in) + 434 p. + 2 plates (geometr. elevation of the Timber-Bridge - map of the lakes of Thun & Brienz) / 2) VIII + 430 p. + 3 plates (full grown male bouquetin - head of the bearded vulture (folding) - Panorama of the Alps as seen from Berne / 3) XVI + 451 p. (lacking maps of Switzerland and Mont-Blanc), Stamps ‘Montreux Club’ on title, h.-calf bindings, top of spine of vol. 3 missing (torn off), else good copy.
The rare 4th edition with the supplementary historical notes on the revolution. ‘Of all accounts of travels through Switzerland in the 18th. century, none enjoyed such a high reputation for accuracy and completeness as that of the Archdeacon William Coxe...’ (De Beer). Letzte der grossen illustrierten Ausgaben (die Ausg. v. Basel, 1802, enthielt nur sechs Ansichten und eine Karte), dann übernahm der seit 1793 erscheinende EBEL mit einer grossen illustrierten Ausgabe von 1804-1805 das Feld. De Beer, Early Travellers, 133; Haller I, 753; Studer, Geographie S. 523 ff.; Wäber 38.
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Phone number : 41 (0)26 3223808
