Cartography, Exploration & Voyages / Europe

ZELL, Anselm and Christoph ZELL. Europae descriptio lucidissima D. Caroli V Romanorum Imperatori dedicata. Prognosticon Antonii Torquati ... ab anno M.CCCC.LXXX usque ad annum M.D. XXXVIII Matthiae Ungariae regi dicatum. De fide et moribus Aethiopum, libellus Christianis lectu planè dignus.
Antwerp, (Colophon: Joannes Grapheus) for Joannes Steelsius, Aug. 1535. Small 8vo (ca. 9.1 x 14.1 cm). With 3 woodcut decorated initials, and Steelsius printer's device on the verso of the last flyleaf. Modern gold-tooled vellum, sewn on three supports laced through the joints, with a single fillet border on both boards. [24] ll. Full description

ZURLAUBEN, Béat Fidèle Antoine Baron de and Jean Benjamin LABORDE. Tableaux de la Suisse, ou voyage pittoresque fait dans les treize cantons et états alliés du corps Helvétique.
With: QUÉTANT, François Antoine. Table analytique et raisonnée des Tableaux de la Suisse.
Paris, Lamy, 1784-1786, 1788. 5 volumes. Imperial folio (55 x 35.5 cm). With 1 engraved title-page (with a view with obelisk) and 4 letterpress title-pages (3 with a woodcut French royal arms and 1 with a different woodcut), 2 engraved vignettes, 7 engraved maps and plans, 332 engraved views, 6 engraved plates with medals and coins, 10 engraved plates with 63 portraits and 1 engraving in text. Lacking the engraved frontispiece after Moreau and the unnumbered map of Switzerland. Uniform contemporary half calf, gold-tooled spines with red and black labels, sprinkled-paper sides. [5], [1 blank], LXXXIV, [1], [1 blank], 134; [3], [1 blank], 135-368, LXVI, [5], [1 blank]; [4], 322; [1], [1 blank], 323-578, 8; [3], [1 blank], II, 129, [1 blank] pp. Full description