Tableaux Topographiques, Pittoresques, Physiques, Historiques, Moraux, Politiques, Litteraires, de la Suisse. [Five Volumes]

Paris: De l'Imprimerie de Clousier, Rue Saint-Jacques, 1780. Hardcover. Good. Folio. Five volumes, full red leather with gilt stamped decorative borders to boards, 12 raised bands in six pairs to spine, gilt lettering & decoration in spine compartments, gilt dentelles, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers, 20-1/4" x 13-1/2", profusely illustrated. Laid in is an 1899 note from Hermann Linde, Art Publisher, which explains that the plates & text were printed separately, and the instructions to the binder are in volume 3 with a general index of plates in volume 5. There are also two other notes discussing the plates. Bookplate of industrialist & railroad owner Robert Heysham Sayre (to whom the Linde letter is addressed). Wear to edges of boards, some hinges tender; front hinge of volume 3 exposed. Damp staining to covers & to some pages and plates--I've uploaded a photo of the worst. Mild foxing, but pages generally clean and bright with nice wide margins. ---PLATE COLLATION: Of the 278 plates listed, it is only missing #212 which is an explanatory plate for the folding plate #211. ---ADDITIONAL PLATES: there is an extra copy of the map "Carte de la partie occidentale de l'Oberland Canton de Berne" -- one is mounted as a centerfold, one is mounted as a folding plate. There are also two folding maps, "Carte Generale de Suisse" and "Carte de Canton de Bale" which are not noted in the list of plates. The allegorial frontispiece to volume 1 is present. And finally, there are two plates marked #219/220 and there is an extra plate marked #169. Good to very good condition. Extra postage required for international or expedited shipping.