Histoire de Genève, rectifiée et augmentée par d'amples notes (par Jean-Antoine Gautier et Firmin Abouzit). Avec les actes et autres pièces ... 2 vols.
by GENEVA. - SPON, (Jacob)
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Geneva, Fabri & Barrillot, 1730. With engraved title-vignettes and 2 (of 3) engr. folding maps, 1 plan, 11 engr. plates (incl. 2 large fold. views of Geneva) after Antoine Chopy and Robert Gardelle, engr. by Daudet and Seiller, and numerous woodcuts in the text. 2 leaves, XV, 556 pp.; 6 leaves, 518 pp., 1 blank. 4to. Contemp. calf. Geneva, Fabri & Barrillot, 1730. The most attractive edition of this famous history of Geneva. Originally published in 1680 in two small volumes at Lyon, this is the first edition to be published at Geneva, of particular value for the augmentations and notes by Jean-Antoine Gautier, based on original sources, correcting Spon's text and going into detail where he had been to brief. "Cette magistrale édition de 1730 qui rassemble les travaux de toute une génération apparaît, en dernière analyse, comme un monument élevé à la gloire de Genève. Comme telle, elle occupe et conserve une place unique dans les annales de la République" (J. D. Candaux). - Lacking the map "Carte du Lac de Genève" by Antoine Chopy, but including the two large foldings of Geneva by Robert Gardelle. The other plates and text illustrations show seals and coins. Nice copy. - Haller IV, 904; Lonchamp 2770; Feller/Bonjour 384 and 515; Geisendorf 181; Le livre à Genève (1978), no. 116; Blumer 167. HELVETICA: GENF ; HELVETICA ;
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- Hellmut Schumann Antiquariat (CH)
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- 32416-416
- Title
- Histoire de Genève, rectifiée et augmentée par d'amples notes (par Jean-Antoine Gautier et Firmin Abouzit). Avec les actes et autres pièces ... 2 vols.
- Author
- GENEVA. - SPON, (Jacob)
- Book Condition
- Used
- Publisher
- Geneva, Fabri & Barrillot
- Date Published
- 1730
- Keywords
- HELVETICA: GENF ; HELVETICA ;
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