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Laborde, Jean-Benjamin de and Béat Fidèl Antoine Dominique, baron de Zurlauben TABLEAUX TOPOGRAPHIQUES, PITTORESQUES, PHYSIQUES, HISTORIQUES, MORAUX, POLITIQUES, LITTÉRAIRES, DE LA SUISSE [AND] TABLEAUX DE LA SUISSE. PARIS: CLOUSIER (VOLUME ONE) AND LAMY (VOLUMES 2-6), 1780-1786 FIRST EDITION, 4 volumes (of 5; see footnote) bound in 6, folio (428 x 312mm.), comprising 2 volumes of text in 4, and 2 plate volumes, half-title in volume 5 with engraved vignette and text on verso, and allegorical engraved frontispiece by Née after Moreau, engraved title in volume 6, engraved double-page general map and 278 numbered plates and maps on 248 sheets, many with 2 views, some double-page, contemporary marbled calf gilt, flat spines gilt with red morocco onlays and green morocco labels, lacking Quétant's "Table analytique et raisonnée", volumes 1-4 and 6 without half-titles, bindings slightly rubbed