SVIZZERA - SIMLER, Josias (1530-1576) - De republica Helvetiorum libri duo. Zurich: Christophorus Froschouerus, 1576. 

Lot 189
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Lot 189 | SVIZZERA - SIMLER, Josias (1530-1576) - De republica Helvetiorum libri duo. Zurich: Christophorus Froschouerus, 1576. 
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[SVIZZERA] - SIMLER, Josias (1530-1576) - De republica Helvetiorum libri duo. Zurich: Christophorus Froschouerus, 1576.

First edition in Latin of an early work about Switzerland. The copy, in addition to an ex dono authoris on title - "Al chiarissimo Gasparo ?Varuffio medico.. dno et amico honorando Simlery" -, is enriched with 13 woodcut views of Swiss cities with the name of the city in manuscript (the name often trimmed and illegible). Simler was a Swiss theologian and classicist and the author of the first book entirely devoted to the Alps.

8vo (167 x 117mm). Printer's device on title, woodcut initials and headpieces, 13 folding woodcut views (4 leaves lacking at end of which one blank although the work ends with the word "finis", light browning and soiling). 18th-century boards backed in green paper with shelfmark label, manuscript title on lower and upper edges (extremities rubbed).
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