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With 2 engr. titles, and 200 steel-engr. plates, most of them by Chr. Krüsi and J. L. Rüdisühli. 2 leaves, 512 columns, 3 leaves; 2 leaves, columns 513-984, VII pp. 4to. Orig. gilt-decorated cloth, edges gilt (spines faded). Basel, Chr. Krüsi, (1870-78). Important collection of the most outstanding monuments from the Middle East, Egypt, India, Central America, classical antiquity, the Byzantine, Islamic, old Christian, Romanesque and Gothic periods, from the Renaissance and the 19th century. The carefully executed plates show monuments and buildings from Luxor, Philae, Athens, Persepolis, Rome, Palermo, Pavia, Pozzuoli, Pisa, Pola, Pompeii, Trier, Cologne, Limburg, Bamberg, Padua, Venice, Paris, Florence, Heidelberg, Dresden, Schwerin, Nuremberg, Gent, Ypres, Milan, Burgos, Seville, Basel, Lausanne, Reims, Freiburg i. Br., Brussels, etc. F. S. Vögelin (1837-1888) was Professoer of Art History at Zurich University from 1870 and he was instrumental in the creation of a Swiss National Museum which he proposed at the National Council. - Occasional foxing as usual, else a fine copy. - Lonchamp 3166. GEOGRAPHY: GENERAL ; HELVETICA: ZÜRICH-ZUG ; GEOGRAPHIE, REISEN ;