Beschreibung:

Charles Melchior-Descourtis, Jean-François-Janinet, and A. Carré Vues remarquables des Montagnes de la Suisse dessinées et coloriées d'après Nature: Thirty-Four plates after Clément, H. Fuesli, C. Wolf, and F. Rosenberg (cf. Cohen de Ricci 485; Lonchamp 3197 2-8,10-17,19-34,36,39,43; cf. Inventaire 18e Siècle , VII, pp. 62-3, no. 7 (Descourtis) and cf. XII, pp. 74-5, no. 175 (Janinet) mixed method engravings printed in colours, some with etching, 1776-85, on laid paper, from the set of 43, twelve plates by C. Melchior Descourtis after C. Wolf; ten by the same after Rosenberg; two by the same after Clément; one by the same after Fuesli; six by J. Janinet after C. Wolf, one by A. Carré after C. Wolf; one plate after C. Wolf (by J.-F. Janinet?) and one anonymous plate published by J. Yntema for R. Hentzy, Amsterdam, 1785, all the plates except two with Hentzy's address, L. 16 and 39 with Wagner's address, some plates trimmed on or just within the borderline, one or two plates with small areas of skinning and discolouration in places, unexamined out of the frames averaging S. 325 x 295mm. (34)