Collection: Rare Books and Manuscripts / Associated Places: Switzerland / Classification: Books

1. The Continental drawing book : for the use of advanced pupils : being views in Switzerland and the Alps and Italian lakes / drawn from nature and on stone by George Barnard.

The Continental drawing book : for the use of advanced pupils : being views in Switzerland and the Alps and Italian lakes / drawn from nature and on stone by George Barnard.

Creator:: Barnard, George, 1807–1890
Date:: Jany. 2nd, 1837
Physical Description:: [14] leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 28 cm x 38 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. Switzerland in miniature : description of the grand model of Switzerland, by professor Gaudin, of Geneva, 26 feet by 21 feet, now exhibiting at the Egyptian Hall, Piccadilly.

Switzerland in miniature : description of the grand model of Switzerland, by professor Gaudin, of Geneva, 26 feet by 21 feet, now exhibiting at the Egyptian Hall, Piccadilly.

Date:: 1825
Physical Description:: iv, [1], 6-32 pages, [1] folded leaf of plates : map ; 22 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

3. Collection de costumes suisses, tirés du cabinet de Mr. Meyer d'Aarau, par F.N. König.

Creator:: Koenig, Franz Nikolaus, 1765–1832
Date:: [pref. 1804]
Physical Description:: 5 p.., 48 p. XXIV col. plates. 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

4. The mountains and the lakes : sketches in Switzerland, the Tyrol and Italy / by George E. Hering.

Creator:: Hering, G. (George), 1805–1879
Date:: 1845
Physical Description:: [20] leaves of plates : all ill. ; 49 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

5. Amusemens des bains de Bade en Suisse, de Schintznach et de Pfeffers : avec la description, & la comparaison de leurs eaux avec celles des bains de Schwalbach & autres de l'empire : le tout accompagné d'histoires & d'anecdotes curieuses.

Creator:: Merveilleux, David-François de, -1748
Date:: 1739
Physical Description:: 290 p., [3] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill. ; 16 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

6. Catalogue of some of the manuscripts in the publick library of Basle in Switzerland.

Creator:: Universitätsbibliothek Basel
Date:: 1824]
Physical Description:: p. 5-8. 34 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

7. Gemeiner loblicher Eydgnoschaft Stetten, Landen und Völckern chronicwürdiger Thaaten beschreibung : hierinn wirt auch die Gelegenheit der gantzen Europe, item ein kurtzuergriffne Chronica Germanie oder Teütschlands, insonders aber ein fleyssige History und ordenliche Beschreybung Galliæ oder Franckreychs fürgestellt, darauff denn obgedachte der Eydgnoschafft Beschreybung volget ... : jetz neüwlich zum anderen Mal in den Truck gäben an vilen Orten gebesseret, gemeeret, mit einer angehenckten Chronologey kurtzuer zeichneter Geschichten vom 1548, Jar biss auff diss Gegenwirtig 1586 / Jar durch Johan Rudolph Stumpffen ...

Creator:: Stumpf, Johannes, 1500–1576?
Date:: 1586
Physical Description:: [9], DCCXXXII, [22] leaves : ill., coats of arms, ports, maps ; 34 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

8. Ergo : un pictogram sur les conséquences de "Je pense donc je suis" / en points de vue par Warja Lavater.

Creator:: Lavater, Warja, 1913–2007
Date:: [1988]
Physical Description:: [32] pages : color illustrations ; 19 x 19 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Neale Albert, Yale JD 1961, and Margaret Albert.

9. Four picturesque views in Switzerland.

Date:: [between 1829 and 1832]
Physical Description:: [4] leaves : all ill. ; 23 x 29 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

10. Disputatio juridica de venatione : quam permissu atque authoritate Magnifici JCtorum Ordinis in celeberrima Rauracorum Universitate praeside viro nobilissimo et amplissimo Dn. Jac. Burckhardo, J.U.D. Cod. Prof. Publ. celeberrimo, nec non serenissimi & celsissimi Principis Nassov. Consiliario meritissimo, Patrono ac Praeceptore suo aetatèm colendo: publico placidoq́[ue] eruditorum examini loco horisq́ue consuetis submittit Joh. Henricus Reberus als. Mylhusinus, ad diem Martij, An. Chr. M. DC. LXXXX.

Creator:: Reber, Joh. Henricus
Date:: [1690]
Physical Description:: [2], 74 pages, [4] folded pages of plates ; 19 cm (4to)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

11. Topographia Helvetiæ, Rhætiæ et Valesiæ : das ist, Beschreibung vnnd eygentliche Abbildung der vornemsten Stätte vnd Plätze in der hochlöblichen Eydgnossschafft, Graubündten, Wallis, vnd etlicher zugewandten Orthen / M.Z.

Creator:: Zeiller, Martin, 1589–1661
Date:: Im Jahr MDCLIV [1654]
Physical Description:: 90, [8] p., [80] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill. (engravings), maps, plans ; 32 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

12. Zürcherische Ausruff-Bilder : vorstellende Diejenige Personen, welche in Zürich allerhand so wol verkäussliche, als andere Sachen, mit der gewohnlichen Land-und Mund-Art ausrussen, in 52 Sauber in Kupfer gestochenen Figuren, mit hochdeutschen Versen von verschiedenen Einfällen nach der uralten Reimkunst belgeitet.

Creator:: Herrliberger, David, 1697–1777
Date:: 1748-1751
Physical Description:: XVIII leaves of plates : all ill. ; 20 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

13. Travels from Paris through Switzerland and Italy, in the years 1801 and 1802 : with sketches of the manners and characters of the respective inhabitants / by a native of Pennsylvania.

Creator:: Sansom, Joseph, 1765 or 6–1826
Date:: 1808
Physical Description:: 280 p. ; 24 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

14. Leben des Künstlers Asmus Jakob Carstens, ein Beitrag zur Kunstgeschichte des achtzehnten Jahrhunderts von Carl Ludwig Fernow.

Creator:: Fernow, C. L. (Carl Ludwig), 1763–1808
Date:: 1806
Physical Description:: xxxii, 317, [1] p. front. (port.) 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

15. The mountains and lakes of Switzerland, the Tyrol, and Italy / from drawings made during a tour through those countries by George E. Hering ; with descriptive letterpress.

Creator:: Hering, G. (George), 1805–1879
Date:: 1847
Physical Description:: [26] p., [20] leaves of plates : col. ill. ; 37 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

16. Description de la Fête des vignerons, célébrée à Vevey, les 8 et 9 août 1833 : précédée d'une notice sur l'origine et l'institution de cette société qui porte maintenant le nom d'Abbaye des Vignerons, et de la manière dont procèdent les Conseillers lors des récompenses à donner et des médailles à décerner : suivie du tableau de la procession de la fête, dans son ordre de marche.

Date:: 1833
Physical Description:: 52 pages, [30] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 19 cm, plates 20 x 51 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17. Views in Switzerland / drawn from nature by C. Bourgeois ; and on stone, by A. Aglio.

Creator:: Bourgeois, Ct. (Constant), 1767–1841
Date:: 1822
Physical Description:: [37] leaves : all ill. ; 39 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

18. Swiss scenery / from drawings by Major Cockburn.

Creator:: Cockburn, James Pattison, 1779–1847
Date:: 1820
Physical Description:: viii, [1], 114 p., [60] leaves of plates : ill. ; 28 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

19. The Alps, Switzerland, and the north of Italy : with numerous engravings / by the Rev. Charles Williams.

Creator:: Williams, Charles, 1796–1866
Date:: 1854
Physical Description:: viii, 633, [1] p., [2] leaves of plates : ill., map ; 29 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

20. Mountains and lakes of Switzerland and Italy / sixty-four picturesque views after drawings taken from original sketches by C. Pyne ; with descriptive notes by Jerome J. Mercier.

Creator:: Mercier, Jerome J
Date:: 1871
Physical Description:: 130, [6] p., [1] folded leaf of plates : col. ill., map ; 27 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

21. The handbook for travellers in Switzerland and the Alps of Savoy and Piedmont : including the Protestant valleys of the Waldenses.

Date:: 1839
Physical Description:: xcix, [1], 517 p., [5] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill., map ; 17 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

22. Voyage pittoresque de l'Oberland, ou, Description de vues prises dans l'Oberland, district du canton de Berne : accompagnée de notices historiques et topographiques : avec quinze planches coloriées; et une carte itinéraire.

Creator:: Stapfer, Philipp Albert, 1766–1840
Date:: MDCCCXII [1812]
Physical Description:: [8], 90, [2] p., [16] leaves of plates : ill., map ; 35 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

23. Letters from Switzerland and France : written during a residence of between two and three years in different parts of those countries.

Date:: 1821
Physical Description:: 104 p., [3] folded leaves of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

24. De l'état actuel des arts à Genève; par T. C. Bruun-Neergaard ...

Creator:: Bruun-Neergaard, T. C. (Tønnes Christian), 1776–1824
Date:: 1802
Physical Description:: 39 p. front. 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

25. Tableau historique et pittoresque de la Route du Simplon de Genêve à Milan : orné de 40 vues et d'une carte itinéraire.

Date:: 1824
Physical Description:: ix, [1], 167, [3] p., [40] leaves of plates (1 folded) : ill., map ; 31 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

26. Swiss costume.

Creator:: Scharf, George, 1788–1860
Date:: 1824
Physical Description:: [24] leaves : all ill. ; 15 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

27. Switzerland, as now divided into nineteen cantons : interspersed with historical anecdotes, local customs, and a description of the present state of the country : the cantons are severally described, and also the county of Neuchatel, the republic of Geneva, the boundaries, & new road over the Simplon : with picturesque representations of the dress and manners of the Swiss : to which is added a short guide to travellers / by A. Yosy.

Creator:: Yosy, A
Date:: 1815
Physical Description:: 2 v. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

28. Travels in Switzerland, and in the country of the Grisons : in a series of letters to William Melmoth, Esq. / from William Coxe, M.A. F.R.S. F.A.S. Rector of Bemerton; and domestic chaplain to the Lord Bishop of Salisbury.

Creator:: Coxe, William, 1747–1828
Date:: 1794
Physical Description:: 2 v. : ill., maps ; 31 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

29. Travels : comprising observations made during a residence in the Tarentaise, and various parts of the Grecian and Pennine Alps, and in Switzerland and Auvergne, in the years 1820, 1821, and 1822 / by R. Bakewell.

Creator:: Bakewell, Robert, 1768–1843
Date:: 1823
Physical Description:: 2 v. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

30. A companion to Keller's panorama of Switzerland : comprising a description of Mont Righi : of the roads leading to it, and of the celebrated prospect obtained from its summit : embellished with a circular view of the country by General Pfyffer.

Creator:: Keller, Heinrich, 1778–1862
Date:: [1830]
Physical Description:: 32 p., [2] leaves of plates : ill., map ; 24 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

31. Switzerland : containing a description of the character, manners, customs, diversions, dress &c. &c. of the people of that country in general and of the inhabitants of the twenty-two cantons in particular.

Date:: 1827
Physical Description:: vi, [1], 287, [4] p., [18] leaves of plates : ill. ; 16 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

32. Panorama of Switzerland as viewed from the summit of Mont Righi / drawn from nature by Henry Keller ; engraved by J. Clark ; also a circular view of the country by General Pfyffer, with descriptive notices of the most remarkable objects.

Creator:: Keller, Heinrich, 1778–1862
Date:: [1830]
Physical Description:: 1 folded sheet ([9] p.) : chiefly ill. ; 27 x 189 cm., folded to 27 x 23 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

33. Histoire de Mr. Jabot.

Creator:: Töpffer, Rodolphe, 1799–1846
Date:: 1833
Physical Description:: [2], 52 leaves ; 16 x 25 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

34. Sketches illustrative of the manners and costumes of France, Switzerland, and Italy / by R. Bridgens.

Creator:: Bridgens, Richard
Date:: 1821
Physical Description:: [4], iv, [2] p., [45] leaves, [49] leaves of plates (1 folded) : ill. ; 31 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

35. Switzerland : illustrated in a series of views taken expressly for this work by W. H. Bartlett / by William Beattie.

Creator:: Beattie, William, 1793–1875
Date:: 1836-1840
Physical Description:: 2 v. : ill. ; 28 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

36. [Collection de costumes suisses].

Creator:: Koenig, Franz Nikolaus, 1765–1832
Date:: [1820?]
Physical Description:: 18 leaves : ill. ; 33 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

37. Sketches in Italy, Switzerland, France &c. By T.M. Richardson Junr.

Creator:: Richardson, Thomas Miles, 1813–1890
Date:: 1837 [i.e. 1838]
Physical Description:: 2 p.., 25 col. plates. 55 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

38. Picturesque tour from Geneva to Milan, by way of the Simplon : illustrated with thirty six coloured views of the most striking scenes and of the principal works belonging to the new road constructed over that mountain : engraved from designs by J. and J. [i.e. G. and G.] Lory of Neufchatel : and accompanied with particulars, historical and descriptive / by Frederic Schober [i.e. Shoberl]

Creator:: Ostervald, J. F. (Jean Frédéric), 1773–1850
Date:: 1820
Physical Description:: [8], 136 p., [36] leaves of plates : ill., map ; 28 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

39. The physician's holiday, or, A month in Switzerland in the summer of 1848 / by John Forbes ... ; with a map and illustrations.

Creator:: Forbes, John, Sir, 1787–1861
Date:: 1852
Physical Description:: viii, 350 p., [4] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill., map ; 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

40. Manuel du voyageur en Suisse. Ouvrage où l'on trouve les directions nécessaires pour recueillir tout le fruit et toutes les jouissances que peut se promettre un étranger qui parcourt ce pays-là. Par Mr. J.G. Ebel ... Tr. de l'allemand [par J. Gaudin].

Creator:: Ebel, Johann Gottfried, 1764–1830
Date:: 1810-11
Physical Description:: 4 v. fronts. (v. 1, 3) 3 fold. plates, fold. map. 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

41. The Lord's prayer of an Unterwaldener / invented by John Martin Usteri at Zurich ; & engraved by Marquard Wocher at Basil.

Creator:: Usteri, Johann Martin, 1763–1827
Date:: 1805
Physical Description:: [1], 7 leaves : illustrations ; 27 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

42. A picturesque tour by the new road from Chiavenna over the Splügen, and along the Rhine to Coira, in the Grisons.

Creator:: Clowes, George
Date:: 1826
Physical Description:: 35, [1] p., [13] leaves of plates : ill. ; 32 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

43. [Plates from William Coxe's Travels in Switzerland]

Creator:: Coxe, William, 1747–1828
Date:: [1794]
Physical Description:: [24] leaves ([1] folded) : all ill. ; 31 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

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1. The Continental drawing book : for the use of advanced pupils : being views in Switzerland and the Alps and Italian lakes / drawn from nature and on stone by George Barnard.

2. Switzerland in miniature : description of the grand model of Switzerland, by professor Gaudin, of Geneva, 26 feet by 21 feet, now exhibiting at the Egyptian Hall, Piccadilly.

3. Collection de costumes suisses, tirés du cabinet de Mr. Meyer d'Aarau, par F.N. König.

4. The mountains and the lakes : sketches in Switzerland, the Tyrol and Italy / by George E. Hering.

5. Amusemens des bains de Bade en Suisse, de Schintznach et de Pfeffers : avec la description, & la comparaison de leurs eaux avec celles des bains de Schwalbach & autres de l'empire : le tout accompagné d'histoires & d'anecdotes curieuses.

6. Catalogue of some of the manuscripts in the publick library of Basle in Switzerland.

8. Ergo : un pictogram sur les conséquences de "Je pense donc je suis" / en points de vue par Warja Lavater.

9. Four picturesque views in Switzerland.

11. Topographia Helvetiæ, Rhætiæ et Valesiæ : das ist, Beschreibung vnnd eygentliche Abbildung der vornemsten Stätte vnd Plätze in der hochlöblichen Eydgnossschafft, Graubündten, Wallis, vnd etlicher zugewandten Orthen / M.Z.

13. Travels from Paris through Switzerland and Italy, in the years 1801 and 1802 : with sketches of the manners and characters of the respective inhabitants / by a native of Pennsylvania.

14. Leben des Künstlers Asmus Jakob Carstens, ein Beitrag zur Kunstgeschichte des achtzehnten Jahrhunderts von Carl Ludwig Fernow.

15. The mountains and lakes of Switzerland, the Tyrol, and Italy / from drawings made during a tour through those countries by George E. Hering ; with descriptive letterpress.

17. Views in Switzerland / drawn from nature by C. Bourgeois ; and on stone, by A. Aglio.

18. Swiss scenery / from drawings by Major Cockburn.

19. The Alps, Switzerland, and the north of Italy : with numerous engravings / by the Rev. Charles Williams.

20. Mountains and lakes of Switzerland and Italy / sixty-four picturesque views after drawings taken from original sketches by C. Pyne ; with descriptive notes by Jerome J. Mercier.

21. The handbook for travellers in Switzerland and the Alps of Savoy and Piedmont : including the Protestant valleys of the Waldenses.

22. Voyage pittoresque de l'Oberland, ou, Description de vues prises dans l'Oberland, district du canton de Berne : accompagnée de notices historiques et topographiques : avec quinze planches coloriées; et une carte itinéraire.

23. Letters from Switzerland and France : written during a residence of between two and three years in different parts of those countries.

24. De l'état actuel des arts à Genève; par T. C. Bruun-Neergaard ...

25. Tableau historique et pittoresque de la Route du Simplon de Genêve à Milan : orné de 40 vues et d'une carte itinéraire.

26. Swiss costume.

28. Travels in Switzerland, and in the country of the Grisons : in a series of letters to William Melmoth, Esq. / from William Coxe, M.A. F.R.S. F.A.S. Rector of Bemerton; and domestic chaplain to the Lord Bishop of Salisbury.

29. Travels : comprising observations made during a residence in the Tarentaise, and various parts of the Grecian and Pennine Alps, and in Switzerland and Auvergne, in the years 1820, 1821, and 1822 / by R. Bakewell.

30. A companion to Keller's panorama of Switzerland : comprising a description of Mont Righi : of the roads leading to it, and of the celebrated prospect obtained from its summit : embellished with a circular view of the country by General Pfyffer.

31. Switzerland : containing a description of the character, manners, customs, diversions, dress &c. &c. of the people of that country in general and of the inhabitants of the twenty-two cantons in particular.

32. Panorama of Switzerland as viewed from the summit of Mont Righi / drawn from nature by Henry Keller ; engraved by J. Clark ; also a circular view of the country by General Pfyffer, with descriptive notices of the most remarkable objects.

33. Histoire de Mr. Jabot.

34. Sketches illustrative of the manners and costumes of France, Switzerland, and Italy / by R. Bridgens.

35. Switzerland : illustrated in a series of views taken expressly for this work by W. H. Bartlett / by William Beattie.

36. [Collection de costumes suisses].

37. Sketches in Italy, Switzerland, France &c. By T.M. Richardson Junr.

39. The physician's holiday, or, A month in Switzerland in the summer of 1848 / by John Forbes ... ; with a map and illustrations.

40. Manuel du voyageur en Suisse. Ouvrage où l'on trouve les directions nécessaires pour recueillir tout le fruit et toutes les jouissances que peut se promettre un étranger qui parcourt ce pays-là. Par Mr. J.G. Ebel ... Tr. de l'allemand [par J. Gaudin].

41. The Lord's prayer of an Unterwaldener / invented by John Martin Usteri at Zurich ; & engraved by Marquard Wocher at Basil.

42. A picturesque tour by the new road from Chiavenna over the Splügen, and along the Rhine to Coira, in the Grisons.

43. [Plates from William Coxe's Travels in Switzerland]