Ouresiphoitēs Helveticus, sive Itinera Alpina tria: in quibus incolae, animalia, plantae, montium altitudines barometricae, coeli & soli temperies, aquae medicatae, mineralia, metalla, lapides, figurati, aliaque fossilia; & quicquid insuper, in natura, artibus, & antiquitatate, per alpes, Helveticus & Rhaeticas, rarum sit, & notatu dignum, exponitur, & iconibus illustratur. Authore Johanne Jacobo Scheuchzero, Med. Doct. & Societatis Regiae Londinenis Socio.
Johann Jakob Scheuchzer (1672-1733)
Category
Books
Date
1708
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Lacock, Wiltshire
NT 3016739
Summary
Bibliographic description
[6], 57, [1]; [2], 72; [2], 22, [2] p., [44] leaves of plates (2 folded) : ill., port. ; 4to. Imperfect: wanting title page and frontispiece, and final blank leaf D4. Provenance: manuscript bookseller's[?] code on front free endpaper. Binding: eighteenth-century full plain parchment over boards; lozenge-shaped paper label at head of spine, pasted over earlier manuscript title (very faint); red sprinkled bookblock edges.
Makers and roles
Johann Jakob Scheuchzer (1672-1733), author Johann Melchior Füssli (1677-1736) , artist Joseph Nutting (d.1722), engraver (printmaker)