Schmidt, Friedrich Samuel von (1737-1796) Recueil d'Antiquités Trouvées a Avenches a Culm , and Three Others.

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Schmidt, Friedrich Samuel von (1737-1796) Recueil d'Antiquités Trouvées a Avenches a Culm, and Three Others. Berne: Chez Abraham Wagner, Fils, 1760. First edition, quarto, illustrated with thirty-five plates, full page and folding of the Roman antiquities recently unearthed in Switzerland, by Adrian Zingg bound in full contemporary sponge-decorated calf, gilt-tooled spine, marbled endleaves, solid red edges, surface rubbing, structurally intact, unrepaired, 8 1/4 x 6 1/4 in.
[Together with] Champollion-Figeac's Nouvelles Recherches sur la Ville Gauloise d'Uxellodunum, Paris: de l'Imprimerie Royale, 1820, large quarto, with six folding plates, bound in contemporary half red morocco, 10 x 8 in.; Chevalley de Rivaz's Voyage de Naples, a Capri et a Paestum, Naples: chez l'auteur et al., 1846, octavo, in publisher's limp wraps, untrimmed, with the frontispiece, 8 3/4 x 5 1/2 in. [and] Phocion Roque's Topographie d'Athenes, Paris: Plon, 1869, octavo, illustrated, in contemporary half morocco, worn, 7 x 4 1/4 in. (4)
Estimate $400-600

A5, B-Q4 [ ]1 (Q4 blank and present, errata and advice to binder on an unsigned singlet following the last blank.)


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