Memorabilia Tigurina, oder Merkwürdigkeiten der Stadt und Landschaft Zürich. Third augmented edition, ed. by Johann Balthasar Bullinger.

Engr. frontispiece "Memorabilia Urbis et Agri Tigurini" with a small view of Zurich at the bottom, 1 colored folding map (c. 415 x 370 mm) engr. by Johann Heinrich Freytag after J. J. Scheuchzer and H. C. Gyger, and 39 small engr. views by Johann Melchior Füssli, originally mounted on blank pages. 4 unn. leaves (incl. frontispiece), 713 pp. Small 4to. 19th-century half cloth. Zurich, Heidegger & Compagnie, 1742. Most comprehensive edition of the best-known history of mainly town and canton of Zurich with many views. Entries are found about villages, buildings, historical events, battles, government offices, weather conditions, etc. arranged in alphabetical order. Hans Heinrich Bluntschli's (1656-1722) work is present here in its enlarged third edition, edited and continued up to the 18th century by Johann Balthasar Bullinger (1690-1764), and the first one depicting all 40 views by Johann Melchior Füssli (1677-1736). These engravings are mounted on blank paper and inserted in alphabetical order: Besides the views of Zurich, there are depictions of Andelfingen, Bülach, Kappel, Embrach, Eglisau, Greifensee, Grüningen, Küsnacht, Kyburg, Regensberg, Stein am Rhein, Weinfelden, Winterthur, a.o. - Some light foxing throughout, on the whole a good copy. - Haller I, 763 and 352; Lonchamp 350; Weiss, Die politische Erziehung im alten Zürich (1940), 125; Feller/Bonjour 434; Achtnich/Staudenmann, Schweizer Ansichten . 1477-1786 (1978), p. 125, no. 5; Studer, Geschichte der physischen Geographie der Schweiz (1863), 207. HELVETICA ;