Versuch einer Beschreibung historischer und natürlicher Merkwürdigkeiten der Landschaft Basel. 23 parts in 6 vols.

Basel, Emanuel Thurneysen, 1748-1763 (-1764). With 7 engr., fold. maps (of which 6 are colored or in outline coloring), 54 mostly fold. town views and 52 of 59 (of which 49 are fold., and 1 colored. map of Augst) plates showing antiquities, petrefacts, a salmon, and a Roman inscription, all of them engraved by Chovin, Dublon and Holzhalb after drawings by Emanuel Büchel, as well as many woodcut illustrations in the text. Together 3077, (15) pp. 8vo. Contemp. half calf with each 2 spine labels, gilt (stamps on half-titles). Basel, Emanuel Thurneysen, 1748-1763 (-1764). (Added:) Lutz, Markus. Neue Merkwürdigkeiten der Landschaft Basel, oder Fragmente zur Geschichte, Topographie, Statistik und Kultur dieses schweizerischen Freystandes. 3 vols. 8vo. Contemporary half calf with each 2 spine labels, gilt, Basel, Schweighauser, 1805-1816. Ad I: First edition (vol. 1 in 2nd ed. dated 1764). A very nice copy of a richly illustrated work on topography, history, genealogy, archeology, botany, zoology and mineralogy of the Basel region. The engravings are present here in sharp and clear impressions and show views of villages, cities and landscape sceneries, castles, antiquities, etc.- Nice copy.- Barth 19683; Lonchamp 465; Haller I, 841.- Ad II: First edition. M. Lutz (1772-1835) was pastor in Läufelfingen.- Barth 19688. GEOGRAPHY: TRAVEL ; HELVETICA: BASEL-JURA ; HELVETICA ;