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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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Sketches of the Natural, Civil, and political State of Swisserland; in a series of letters to William Melmoth, Esq; from William Coxe, M.A. Fellow of the King’s College, Cambridge; and Chaplain to His Grace the Duke of Marlborough. The second edition.
London, Printed for J. Dodsley, 1780, gr. in-8vo, IV + 474 p. + 1 leaf ‘Postscript’, light stains throughout, contemporary calf, spine with black marocco title piece, small oval red gilt piece volume n° V (of Coxe travels, this is the complete volume on ‘Swisserland’).
Rare second edition, curiousely only one mentioned by Perret’s valuable ‘Guide sur la montagne’ somewhere lost in the notice on the first French edition of 1781! Postscript notice: The principal writers upon whose authority based ...are: Guillimann, de rebus Helvetiorum, Stanyan’s Account of Switzerland, Dictionnaire de la Suisse etc... And from the contents: The Canton of Fribourg, entirly catholic has 60.000 souls, and it is computed that, in proportion to its size, none of the other cantons have so many troops in that service (France). Description of the mountains (and tourist-spots) like St. Gothard, Furka, Grimsel, Grindelwald and its Glacier, the Gemmi, the bath of Leuk, of Goiters and Idiots in the Vallais, Mont-Blanc and the Glacier of Montanvert etc. etc. For English-language readers, it is still a pleasure to read a well written account of late 18th century Switzerland, seen through the eyes of an English traveller. Barthde Beer, Early travellers S. 133 ff; Haller I,753; Studer, Geogr. S. 523 ff.; Waeber 38; Perret 1159; Barth 17231 (first ed. 1779, one volume of Coxe’s travels, Swisserland (sic) only). 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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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.
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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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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Sketches of the Natural, Civil, and political State of Swisserland; in a series of letters to William Melmoth, Esq; from William Coxe, M.A. Fellow of the King’s College, Cambridge; and Chaplain to His Grace the Duke of Marlborough. The second edition.
London, Printed for J. Dodsley, 1780, gr. in-8vo, VIII + 474 p. + 1 leave ‘Postscript’, untrimmed, contemporary h-calf, spine with special oval gilt vign. of a ‘bird in a tree’, red marocco title piece, top of spine a bit touched.
Rare second edition, curiously only mentioned by Perret’s valuable ‘Guide sur la montagne’ somewhere lost in the notice of the first French edition of 1781! Postscript notice: The principal writers upon whose authority based ...are: Guillimann, de rebus Helvetiorum, Stanyan’s Account of Switzerland, Dictionnaire de la Suisse etc... And from the contents: The Canton of Fribourg, entiry catholic has 60.000 souls, and it is computed that, in proportion to its size, none of the other cantons have so many troops in that service (France). For English readers, it is still a pleasure to read a well written account of late 18th century Switzerland, seen through the eyes of an English traveller. de Beer, Early travellers S. 133 ff; Haller I,753; Studer, Geogr. S. 523 ff.; Waeber 38; Perret 1159; Image disp.
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Voyage en Suisse par M. William Coxe. Traduit de l'anglois (par T. Mandar). En 3 volumes.
Paris, Letellier, 1790, in-8vo, VII (+ 1 bl.) + 454 p. + IV / 2 ff. + 432 p. + 2ff de table + 1 f. bl. / 2 ff. + 463 p. (+ 1 bl.) + 2 grandes cartes repliées (Picquet direx.) + 1 panorama repl. + 4 planches de fig. repl. (gravées par N. Ramsonnette), reliure en plein veau d'époque, dos richement orné, pièces de titre et de tomaison contrastées, double filet doré sur les plats, coiffes touchées, bel exemplaire.
Première édition de cette traduction française, exemplaire complet de la grande carte de la Suisse, et celle du Mont Blanc et des Alpes adjacentes, le panorama repl. (une vue des Alpes depuis les environs de Berne), une vue repl. (lacs de Thoune et de Brienz vue prise du sommet du Niess), et 3 planches de fig. repl. (le pont de bois de Wettingen, des bouquetins, une tête de vautour). Dans le vol. 3, dès la p. 364 jusqu'au p.438 il y a une ‘Faunula Helvetica ou Catalogue des quadrupèdes, des oiseaux, des amphibies, des poissons & des animaux testacées de la Suisse, mis en ordre, & présenté selon le système de Linné: avec des renvois à la Zoologie britannique de MM. Pennant, aux ouvrages de M. Brisson & d'autres auteurs. Certaines espèces n'ont pas trouvé leurs traduction en français ! Cf. Wäber BSL III/39; Barth 17236; Quérard II/327; Hoefer NBG XII/318; de Beer, Travellers in Switzerland p. 55; Perret 1159. Image disp.
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Voyage en Pologne, Russie, Suède, Danemarck, &c.. Traduit de l’anglais, enrichi de notes et des éclaircissemens nécessaires, & augmenté d’un Voyage en Norvège par Mr. P. H. Mallet… En 4 volumes.
Genève, Barde, Manget & Comp. Imprimeurs-Libraires, MDCCLXXXVII 1787, gr. in-8vo, III à XII (faux-titre manque) - titre - dédicace - préface de l’auteur - avertissement du traducteur) + 380 p. / (p. de titre manque), 404 p. / (faux-titre manque), titre + 393 p. (+1) / (faux-titre manque), titre 303 p. (+1) + 19 planches, cartes et plans h.t., ex libris ‘Madame de Chasteloger’, reliure en veau d’époque, coins et coiffes du T. 3 usés, avec manque, bords rapés. Dos richement ornés or, neanmoins bel ensemble.
NOUVELLE ÉDITION FRANçAISE, traduite de l’anglais et augmentée d’un Voyage en Norvège par Mallet. Elle est ornée de 19 planches et cartes hors texte dont la plupart dépliantes. Les cartes ont été gravées par Thomas Kitchin, les portraits et plans par ‘Clausner de Zug’ et ‘Adam Töpffer’ de Genève.Tome I, p. 1 à 198 Voyage en Pologne: Carte de la Pologne - grande carte dépl. / Portrait de Stanislas Auguste, Roi de Pologne gravé par Töpffer / Mesanges à nid pendant, mâle et femelle. Pl. dépl.; p. 199 Voyage en Russie. - Carte de la Russie -grande carte dépl. / Plan de Moskou -grand plan dépl. / échantillon de la Typographie russe. Tome II: Plan dépl. St. Petersbourg / Portrait de Catherine II. Impératrice de Russie (A. Töpffer sc. Genève d’après Bromton) / Portrait ‘Pugatchèf’ comme prisonnier / Tome III: (marges latérales des premiers 30 p. moisie par une tache d’eau -) Pt. Carte dépl. (Aderbigian - Astrachan) / Plan dépl. du Canal de Wischnei-Wolotschok - Canal de Ladoga / début de voyage en Suède - Grande Carte dépl. ‘Carte des Provinces Méridionales de Suède / Plan de Stockholm dépl. / Portrait de Gustave III Roi de Suède / Dame Suédoise, en habit de Cour - Gentilhomme Suedois, en habit de cour / Pl. dépl. Canal de Trollhaetta. T. IV: Voyage en Dannemarc (sic)- Grande Carte dépl. du Danemark / gr. Plan dépl. de Copenhague / Plan dépl. du Canal de Kiel. Suivi par le Voyage en Norvège par Mallet p. 161 à 294. Image disp.
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