JANINET and DESCOURTIS. Vues remarquables des montagnes de l - Lot 23

JANINET and DESCOURTIS. Vues remarquables des montagnes de la Suisse, dessinées et peintes d'après nature, avec leur description (by Albert de Haller and Wyttenbach, published by R. Hentzy). Amsterdam J. Yntema (sold in Paris, by Graff and Descourtis), 1785. In-fol. in ff. in contemporary cardboard. Title, 4 ff. introduction, 4 ff. preface, 14 ff. explanation of frontispiece and plates with head vignette by Dunker, frontispiece by Dunker engraved in bistre by Monnet and 42 superb plates engraved by Descourtis, Janinet, Carrée and Alix after Hentzi, Wolff, Clément, Rosenberg printed in under the direction of Vernet, painter to the King". ABSOLUTELY COMPLETE ISSUE (text and plates), to which has been added a bistre plate by Janinet: Les Lutteurs sur les remparts de Berne (Wrestlers on the ramparts of Berne), the proofs are perfectly fresh, with full margins and untrimmed. A VERY RARE COLLECTION - AN EXCEPTIONAL COPY.